224 Notice of the late Sheldon Clark. 
commodities, or collect the dues on outstanding notes. The 
treasurer’s receipts for the money for the telescope lie before me, 
and may be worth copying, as an example of the manner in which 
an industrious and frugal farmer, by the use of moderate means, 
was able to accomplish an important end. 
Payments by Sheldon Clark to the Treasurer of Yale sai A 
for a ge et 
eee 22d, 1828, - - + ee 
‘ March afte, a soda nae $e 
_ April tt, Be nt 8 
May 26th, «ONT a ada aed aaa 50 
- October 28th, “ = Ss . a 2 100 
se November a Ss ea oe el ee 
3 November 11th, “ mre cy = ~ 88 
: ts M4 : ¥ fi . 100 
: “Seesaees se ee ee ee 
_«, August 26th, 1829, - - . =. = Bo! 
$1, 1,200 . 
Of this donation, nineteen guineas were, by order of the donor, 
émployed in the purchase of a pair of large globes by Carey; 
(twenty-one inches in diameter,) one celestial and the other ter- 
restrial, elegantly mounted and covered. Thé telescope* was 
ordéted’ of Dollond. ‘Captain Basil Hall happened to be at the 
college at the time, and kindly volunteered to give his 
attention, with the maker, to the execution and arrangement of 
the {fibibinierit Mr. Clark limited a period of two years, within 
which it was to be done or the money given by him was to be 
returnéd. It arrived in November, 1829, and was 
by Dollond to be “perfect, and such an instrument as he was 
pleased to send as a specimen of his powers.” ‘In a letter of Sep” 
tember 3, 1835, Prof. Ol Olmsted announces to Mr. Clark 
2h ap, ehh ot Sinaia “the donor, is siatagaieil 
ame of Clark's Telescope.) proves, says Prof. Olmsted, ‘oneniianl instru- 
nt. Tt has a focal length of ten feet, aud an aperture of five inches. The object- 
vss is finely achromatic, and thé light is very pure and abundant. For ‘obje¢ 
