Word: lick
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...lenses and photographic apparatus of the Astronomical Observatory have been loaned to the Lick Observatory, which will send out three expeditions to observe the eclipse, one to Labrador, one to Spain, and one to Egypt...
...Friday it was much brighter than the polar star. The exact position on three nights has been measured with the meridian circle and the spectrum has been founed by a photographic attachment to the telescope. This has been found to have changed -- a result also obtained by the Lick Observatory...
...receive $46,000 yearly. The richest private Observatory is that at the Cape of Good Hope with an annual revenue of $33,000. In the relative values of their equipments the leading observatories rank differently. Washington has buildings and instruments valued at $856,500 but both the Yerkes and Lick Observatories have apparatus worth half a million dollars. Harvard is far behind in this respect. The estimated value of the buildings at Cambridge is $52,000; at Arequipa, $12,000; of the instruments at Cambridge, $20,000; and of those at Arequipa, $50,000--a total...
...largest refracting lens in use is that of the great Yerkes telescope, with an aperture of forty inches. The Lick lens is thirty-six inches in aperture; the Royal Astrophysical Observatory at Potsdam has recently acquired a thirty- one inch photographic refractor; and the Pulkowa Observatory has a thirty inch lens, made by the late Alvan Clark of Cambridge. Greenwich and Washington have telescopes with apertures of twenty-six-inches. The largest instrument in the possession of the Harvard Observatory is the twenty four inch Bruce photographic telescope, mounted at Arequipa...
...that the present income, received during the last two years, may be permanently established. The entire value of the equipment both in Cambridge and at the Arequipa station in Peru amounts only to $134,000, as compared with a corresponding value of $500,000 on the equipment at the Lick and Yerkes observatories more recently established in California. In addition to this handicap in financial matters, the department is much in need of a fire-proof Library building for the safe keeping of the valuable astronomical library. There are also buildings at the Cambridge and Blue Hill stations in need...