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...Lick Observatory on Mt. Hamilton, California, has been finished at last and will soon be formally made over to the State University. The long, delicate work of making and mounting the enormous telescope has been successfully accomplished. A defect in the movement of the revolving floor of the dome will be remedied by means of four hydraulic rams which will move the floor at the rate of a foot per minute. The observatory has been provided with the best and most perfect astronomical instruments, including a spectroscope having a prismatic field of thirteen feet. More than $600,000 have been...
...Alvan H. Clark has completed his work in the Lick Observatory and will return in a few days. Professor Keeler is the only astronomer on the ground, and is devoting himself to making stellar observations...
...following is quoted from the speech of ex-Captain Rogers, of the Yale crew, at the dinner of the Hartford Alumni: "There are sixteen men in training for the crew, of whom four are veterans, and their motto is, to put it forcibly, 'Lick Harvard or Bust...
...Alvan G. Clark is still on Mount Hamilton, his work on the Lick telescope being delayed by the intensely cold weather...
...first observations have been taken through the Lick telescope and were very satisfactory. The eight rings of Saturn were clearly defined and a new star was discovered in Orion...