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Invitations have been extended to the leading astronomers to spend a certain period in taking observations at the new Lick Observatory, California...
...recent visit to the workshop of the famous lens makers, Alvin Clark & Sons, Cambridgeport, furnishes some interesting facts concerning the objective for the great telescope of the Lick Observatory in California. It being impossible to get the glasses cast satisfactorily in this country, the Clarks sent to Paris after them soon after receiving the order from the trustees of the Observatory. Considerable time was spent before the first glass, the flint, was successfully cast, and this did not reach Mr. Clark until about three years ago. A very much longer delay accompanied the casting of the crown glass, which...
...little gymnasium. "Quite a good room," says my guide, complacently; "got as good a one at Hahvahrd?" I admit that we have not, to his great delight; for he exclaims, "Gawd, Charlie, this gentleman says we've got a better gymnasium than Hahvahrd; and how we ah going to lick her this year at everything dont'ch knaw?" I smile, (inwardly) and complete my observations...
...February number of Harper's Magazine contains a very interesting article on the great Lick Observatory of California, which, when completed, will contain the largest telescope in the world. The gentleman who contributed the money for this great undertaking, and for whom the observatory is named, was a Mr. Lick, a California capitalist. Up to 1873 he was known to the public only as a shrewd business man of a retiring and rather eccentric nature. In that year he surprised everyone by making over his entire fortune to a board of trustees to be expended for public and scientifle purposes...
...powerful machinery, by which the tube sixty feet long is to be pointed toward any part of the heavens, and kept in motion by clock work, has not yet been commenced. However, the completion of this machinery is only a question of time, and when every thing is finished Lick Observatory will have the largest and most powerful telescope in the world...