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...reported at San Francisco that Professor Barnard of Lick Observatory, who recently gained world-wide fame by discovering Jupiter's fifth moon, has received a call from Chicago University and will accept...
Prof. E. E. Barnard of the Lick Observatory, will give lectures in Nashville, his home, and in Chicago, before his trip abroad for astronomical observations...
...telescope for the Chicago University will not be ready for use till the fall of 1893. The lens will be cast by Alvin G. Clark, and will be forty-five inches in diameter; or eleven inches larger than that in the great Lick telescope...
...Laland prize of the Paris Academy of Sciences was awarded to Professor Barnard, of the Lick Observatory, on December 19, 1892, for his work in astronomy, especially for his discovery of the fifth satellite of Jupiter...
...amount of valuable material accummulated with these instruments is continually increasing, and has proved useful in many cases in studying the past history of new objects. Plates have been sent to the Lick and Amherst observatories and to the Smithsonian Institution for special investigations...