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...addition of this instrument to the equipment of Lick Observatory will be of inestimable value and the authorities of the University of California will raise the necessary funds for transportation...
...director of the Lick Observatory has received a telegram which announces that the Hon. Edwin Crossley, lately Member of Parliament for Halifax, England, proposes to present to the Lick Observatory his great three foot reflecting telescope, with its dome and all its apparatus complete. Mr. Crossley, himself an enthusiastic amateur astronomer, makes no conditions to his gift, except that his telescope when set up at Mt. Hamilton shall be called the Crossley Reflector and that the expenses of transporting the instrument and dome from England to California shall be borne by Americans...
Prof. J. M. Shaeberies of Lick Observatory is on his way to South America where he will photograph the corona, during the eclipse of April...
Mars has two satellites, the inner of which is remarkable in that it rises in the west, its motion being very rapid. Jupiter has five satellites of which one was discovered last summer by Prof. Barnard of the Lick Observatory. The velocity of light was first determined by observation of the eclipses of the satellites of Jupiter, Uranus has four satellites and Neptune has one which is remarkable as having a retrograde motion...
Prof. E. E. Barnard of the Lick Observatory has received the degree of Doctor of Sciences from Vanderbilt University...