Word: licked
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...well known writers will furnish the fiction for the new volume, which is to be unusually strong, including several novels, illustrated novelettes, and short stories. "The Women of the French Salons" are to be described in a brilliant series of illustrated papers. The important discoveries made with the great Lick Telescope at San Francisco (the largest telescope in the world) and the latest explorations relating to prehistoric America (including the famous Serpent Mound, of Ohio) are to be chronicled in The Century...
...very faint stars and nebulae. With this telescope, Professor Pickering expects to accomplish as much as seventeen other observatories working together according to a plan recently matured at Paris. The lenses will require almost as much metal and as much time and care in construction as the great Lick lens. The contracts have been awarded to the manufacturers of the Lick lens, and it is expected to be finished in about two years. A similar telescope with a diameter of eight inches, is now being used at the station of the Harvard observatory in Peru. Over eight hundred photographs have...
...Lick Observatory is to have a rival nearly 1000 feet higher than Mt. Hamilton, and situated in Colorado, at an elevation of nearly 5,000 feet above the sea level. The new observatory will be attached to the University of Colorado...
...Royal Astronomical Society contains the first of a promised series of letters by Professor Holden, formerly of Harvard University, but now director of the observatory of the University of California. These Jetters will set forth at length the observations which have been made by means of the Lick telescope. A comparison of the results of the observations taken by Prof. Holden by means of the Lick telescope, and the results obtained by means of the best English and American telescopes shows that the Lick lens is immeasurably superior to any of its predecessors. Formerly there was supposed to be only...
...Lick Observatory has been formally transferred by the representatives of the Lick trust to the trustees of the University of California. Not more than $90,000 remain of the fund of $700,000 for astronomical purposes which had been increased to about $1,000,000 by the accumulation of interest. The balance in the hands of the trustees will yield not more than enough to pay the salary of the director. An appeal is to be made to the state authorities for a sufficient appropriation to give the institution funds to cover the annual expenses...