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cause has been appealed to the Supreme Court, and is on calendar 

 for the next ensuing term thereof. 



The trustees hope soon to receive judicial confirmation of their 

 position beyond further appeal, and are uuanimous in their desire to 

 proceed with the work of erecting the " Lick Astronomical Observ- 

 atory " as speedily as possible. 



Sonth Bethlehem, Pa 6 ? Sayre Observatory of Lehigh University. 



Professor C. L. Doolittle, Director. 



Your circular inquiring as to the status, etc., of the Sayre Observa- 

 tory came to hand in due time. 



In reply to the same I will say that no change in the personnel or 

 management of the observatory has been introduced during the year. 



The object of the observatory is mainly that of instruction. Any 

 other work which is attempted must be of such a character as not 

 to interfere with this. I, however, try to do something in the way 

 of scientific work, with such assistance as I am able to get from my 

 pupils. The instruments are as follows : 



An Equatorial Telescope of 6 inches aperture, by Clark & Sons ; 

 a Sidereal Clock, by Bond ; a Zenith Telescope, by Blunt ; and a Port- 

 able Transit Instrument, by Stackpole. 



Besides the time given to the work of instruction, I have during 

 the last year completed the determination of the latitude from a se- 

 ries of over 400 pairs of stars observed with the Zenith Telescope. 

 The declinations of the stars used were reduced very elaborately 

 from all the catalogues since that of Bradley, giving a series of mean 

 declinations and proper motions which I hope will not be wholly 

 without value for other purposes. Besides this, a series of measure- 

 ments of Jupitefs satellites has been made, together with observa- 

 tions of eclipses and occultations of the same, which will soon be 

 sent for publication to some scientific journal. The transit of Mer- 

 cury was successfully observed, the time of all four contacts being 

 noted, and notes made of the physical appearances. 

 It is my intention to continue the observations of Jupiter at the 

 next opposition, and to give such attention to special phenomena as 

 opportunity may offer during the coming year. All of our students 

 in the departments of Civil and Mining Engineering have a pretty 

 full course in practical astronomy, which includes observatory work ; 

 besides which I have several advanced pupils who are making as- 

 tronomy a special study. 



St. Louis, Mo. : Observatory of Washington University. 



Professor J. K. Kees, Director. 

 In answer to your letter of inquiry, I beg to say that our observatory 

 was built last June, and has been used mainlv for class instruction. 



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