motions. 180 The other small telescope is dated 1882 but seems to have 

 been a much later acquisition. 



Most of the New England women's colleges have taught astronomy 

 since their foundings, and Mount Holyoke Seminary at South Hadley, 

 Massachusetts, is no exception. Charles A. Young, of Dartmouth and 

 later Princeton, was giving lectures on astronomy to the female students 

 as early as 1869 ; and when funds were offered in 1880 he helped plan the 

 new observatory. The main equipment was a Fauth meridian circle and 

 a Clark refracting telescope. The latter was equatorially mounted and 

 provided with diffraction spectroscope, filar micrometer, and the usual 

 finder, graduated circles, and clock drive. According to Young, the 8- 

 inch objective "is almost entirely the work of the senior Alvan Clark, 

 and is one of the most perfect specimens of his art." m This original ob- 

 jective, remounted in 1 929, is still in use. 



The Clark telescope replaced a simple 6-inch refractor which had been 

 used at Mount Holyoke for many years. This smaller instrument was sent 

 to a Huguenot college in South Africa, after the Clarks had repaired it 

 and provided equipment necessary for its "enlarged usefulness." 182 



By 1896 the public High School in Northampton, Massachusetts, 

 had a 4/2 -inch Clark refracting telescope, "quite well mounted and 

 placed in an excellent dome." 183 



Since 1887 tne Dearborn observatory and the i8/ 2 -inch refracting 

 telescope (q.v.) have been established at Northwestern University, 

 in Evanston, Illinois. 



Ohio State University bought a portable 4-inch Clark equatorial 

 in time for observations of the 1882 Transit of Venus. 184 Long neglected 

 in favor of larger instruments, this telescope has recently turned up, under 

 dust and cobwebs, and been placed in active service. 185 



180 Publications, Morrison Observatory, vol. 1 (1887), p. 13. 



181 Edward S. Holden, ed., "Reports of Astronomical Observatories," op. cit., 

 p. 663. 



182 Harriet E. Sessions, "The Study of Astronomy at Mount Holyoke Seminary," 

 Mount Holyoke Alumnae Quarterly, vol. 3 (191 9), pp. 17—19. 



183 Popular Astronomy, vol. 4 (1896-1897), p. 453. 



184 Sidereal Messenger, vol. 1 (1882-1883), p. 265. 



185 Private correspondence with Bruce C. Harding, Archivist, Ohio State Uni- 

 versity. 



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