7G2 A MEMOIR OF ELIAS LOOMIS. 



into iiiul aided hciirtily tlir })laii.s of Mr. Winchester, both before and 

 after Mr. Winchester asked liis trnstees to transfer his niagniticent en- 

 dowment to the university. Professor Looniis looked forward to a large 

 institntion in the future on t\ni observatory site. To endow this public 

 service, after making liberal provision for his two sons, he i)e(pieathed 

 his estate. The income from more than $300,000 will eventually be 

 available to continue the work of his life. With clear judgmerit of 

 what was most important he limited the use of that income to the pay- 

 ment of salaries of persons whose time should be exclusively devoted 

 to the making of observations for the promotion of the science of as- 

 tronomy, or to the reduction of astronomical observations, and to de- 

 fraying the expenses of publication. He knew that if he provided ob- 

 servers, other benefactors would furnish buildings and instruments, 

 and the costs of supervision and maintenance. 



A university has an oi-ganic life, with its past and its future. The 

 wealth of a university consists mainly in its men; not so much in those 

 men who are its active members now, as in those who have lived them- 

 selves into its life in the past, and have made it a home of scholarship, 

 of truth, and of devotion to duty; a place tit for the development of 

 the nobler elements of character. The life and work of Eliaa Loomis 

 form no mean portion of the wealth of Yale University. 



PUBLICATIO>fS OF ELIAS LOOMIS. 



1. On .shooting stars. Am. Jour. April, 183.'). (I), vol. xxviu, pp. 95-104. 



2. llalley's comet ^Olmsted ami Loomis). New liaveu Daily Herald, September 1, 



September 4, September 2w, aud December 'M, 1835. 



3. Halley's comet (Olmsted and Loomis). Am. Jour. October, 1835. (l),vol. xxix, 



pp. 155, 156. 



4. Observations on the comet of Ilalley, made at Yale College. Am. Jonr. .July, 1836. 



(1), vol. XXX, pp. 2(»9-22] . 



5. Observations on the variation of the magnetic needle, made at Yale College in 



1834 and 1835. Am. Jonr. July, 1836. (1), vol. xxx, pp. 221-233. (Sturgeon's 

 Auu.Electr., vol.2, pp. 270-282.) 

 G. Letters from Europe. (Thirty-six letters.) Ohio Observer (1837). 



7. Meteoric shower of November 13. Cleveland Observer, November, 1837. 



8. Hourly meteorological observations for the December solstice of 1837, made at 



Western I{eserv«; College. Cleveland Observer, December 23, 1837. 

 1). Hourly meteorological observations for the vernal (equinox of 1838, made at West- 

 ern Re.serve College. Cleveland Observer, March, 1838. 



10. Observations on a hurricane which passed over Stow, in Ohio, October 20, 1837. 



Am. Jour. January, 1838. (1), vol. xxxiii, pp. 3()(5-376. 



11. Splendid meteor (May 18, 1838). Cleveland 01)server, May 22, 1838. 



12. Hourly meteorological observations for the summer solstice of 1838, made at 



Western Reserve College. Cleveland Observer, J. me, 1838. 

 1:5. On the variation and dip of the magnetic needle in dift'erent parts of the lluitcl 



States. Am. Jonr. July, 1838. (1), vol. xxxiv, pp. 290-309. (With a map.) 

 14. On the latitude and longitude of Yale College observatory. Am. Jonr. .Inly, 



1838. (1), vol. xxxiv. pp. 309-313. 

 ir>. Meteors (jf August 9. Cleveland Observer, August 11, 183M. 

 16. An inaugural address, delivered August 21, 1838. 8vo.,p. 38. New York, 1838. 



