have a Clark refractor of 6J/4 inches aperture; 14 astronomers at Bates 

 College today, however, have no knowledge of this instrument. 15 The 

 reference is very likely to the telescope Oliver C. Wendell (q.v.) had 

 recently acquired and which he had not yet installed in his private 

 observatory. 



R. R. Beard of Pella, Iowa, was a banker with an amateur interest in 

 astronomy. By 1887 he had acquired a Clark 6^ -inch aperture equa- 

 torial refractor 16 which, in 1 904, he donated to the local Central College 

 (q.v.). 



The first astronomical telescope built by Warner & Swasey was erected 

 at Beloit College in Wisconsin in 1882. This equatorial mount was 

 designed to hold a 9/2 -inch Clark objective. 17 In 19 16 the Clark lens 

 was remounted by Warner & Swasey; this telescope remained at Beloit 

 until 1967, when it was sold to Dave Garroway (q.v.). The original 

 Warner & Swasey mount is in the Smithsonian Institution (q.v. ) . 



By 1888 F. G. Blinn of East Oakland, California, had a 5-inch Clark 

 achromatic refractor, equatorially mounted, with circles, slow motion, 

 and an effective battery of eyepieces. 18 



On Bonner's Hill, just outside the city of Quebec, the provincial 

 government erected an astronomical observatory in 1 864, mainly for the 

 purpose of accurate timekeeping. 19 The novel and convenient arrange- 

 ment for a shutter over the slit of the dome was suggested to Commander 

 E. D. Ashe, R.N., by Alvan Clark, who used canvas stretched between 

 deal rods. These rods, which were fixed with hooks at the top, were 

 springy enough to hold the canvas close against the dome. Ashe replaced 

 the canvas with a thin deal board and was very pleased with the results. 

 The original equipment of the observatory included an 8-inch Clark 

 equatorial, of 9-feet focal length. After the demise of the Bonner's Hill 

 observatory, in 1874, tne Clark telescope was placed in the new observa- 



14 "Size of the Principal Telescopes in the World," Popular Science Monthly, vol. 10 

 (1876- 1 877), p. 576. 



15 From private correspondence with Karl S. Woodcock, Emeritus Professor of 

 Physics and Astronomy at Bates College. 



16 Sidereal Messenger, vol. 6 (1887), p. 78. 



17 Ibid., vol. 1 (1882), p. 200. 



18 Edward S. Holden, Handbook oj the Lick Observatory (San Francisco, 1888), p. 122. 



19 E. D. Ashe, "Description of the Observatory, Bonner's Hill, Quebec," Monthly 

 Notices, Royal Astronomical Society, vol. 25 (1864-1865), p. 29. 



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