Word: reflectors
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...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...
...climate of England is not favorable for the best work of the reflector and Mt. Hamilton has been selected for its great advantages in this respect...