INDUSTRIAL PROGRESS DURING THE YEAR 1875. X xi 



this respect, and who has received in return, from the Tran- 

 sit of Venus Commission, a beautiful gold medal, as an ac- 

 knowledgment of his gratuitous services. 



The observatory erected several years ago by Professor 

 Mayer in connection with Lehigh University, and now for 

 some time unused, has been placed in charge of Mr. C. L. 

 Doolittle. 



The directorship of the observatory at Cincinnati, which 

 has been vacant since 1872, has recently been filled by the 

 election of Mr. Ormond Stone. 



The hopes expressed in the Annual for 1874, as to the 

 speedy realization of the great project of Mr. James Lick, 

 of California, have been somewhat dampened by the occur- 

 rence of a legal controversy which seems an inevitable 

 attendant of every great bequest for the advancement of 

 learning. The orio-inal trustees havinsr returned into Mr. 

 Lick's hands the trust confided to them, he appears now, 

 from what we can gather, to have personally interested him- 

 self in the execution of his own plan; and it is announced 

 that he has made a formal offer to the trustees of Santa 

 Clara County, in w T hich he proposes to erect his observatory, 

 on the summit of Mount Hamilton, provided the proper 

 authorities will be at the expense of a well-graded carriage- 

 road from the base to the summit. 



The rage for large objectives continues as active as ever. 

 It is said that the glass for making one of 30 inches in di- 

 ameter is now held by Yale College. 



The report of the National Observatory of the Argentine 

 Confederation for the year ending November, 1874, has been 

 received, and it appears therefrom that Dr. Gould, the di- 

 rector, has labored with an energy rarely equaled for the con- 

 summation of the great works undertaken by him. 



For the new observatory at Quito, under the superintend- 

 ence of Father Menten, a fine telescope has been constructed 

 by Merz. It has a clear aperture of 9 Paris inches, and a 

 focal length of 117 inches. 



It is stated that Professor Gonzalez, director of the Na- 

 tional Observatory at Bogota, has resigned his position in 

 order to establish a new and private observatory, at an alti- 

 tude of nine thousand feet, in latitude 4-J north. 



The new observatory at Oxford lias received as its direc- 



