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...August the instruments on Wilson's Peak in California were sent to Cambridge for shipment to Areguipa in Pern, the location chosen for further observations. Great service was rendered the expedition by Hon. John Hicks, American minister to Pern, and Senor L. L. De Rumma of Areguipa, under whose direction valuable meteorological observations were made...
...Senate bill releasing to Harvard College and to the University of California the right of the United States to forty acres of land (for observatory purposes) at the summit of Wilson's Peak, near Pasadena, Cal., passed the Senate Saturday...
...There is a little matter $ome of our $ubscribers have $eemingly forgotten. We are $o mode $t that we do not like to $peak about it."- Tuftonian...
...model of the statue of John Harvard, to be placed in the peak of the Delta at Cambridge, is finished. It is necessarily ideal, as no pictures or busts of the subject remain. [Gazette...
...Lick Observatory, in California, is well under way. It is on Mount Hamilton, thirteen miles from San Jose, and nearly 4,500 feet above sea level, with an unobstructed view of the heavens, except a small part of the northeastern horizon, shut out from view by a neighboring mountain peak. There are to be two domes, in one of which a twelve-inch equatorial telescope is now erected. The other is to contain the great thirty-six-inch telescope, the glasses for which are now being ground at Cambridgeport, Mass. The observatory is of the most substantial character, and will...