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HISTOEY OF ASTRONOMY. 



coast, Congress was careful to append the proviso, that 

 "nothing in the act should be construed to authorize the 

 construction or maintenance of a permanent astronomical ob- 

 servatory." 



YALE COLLEGE OBSERVATORY. 



A donation made to Yale College by Mr. Sheldon Clark 

 is believed to have contributed somewhat toward that im- 

 pulse which astronomy has recently received. In 1828, 

 Mr. Clark made a donation of twelve hundred dollars to 

 Yale College for the purchase of a telescope. The tele- 

 scope was ordered from Dollond, of London ; it arrived 

 in 1830, and was pronounced by the maker to be " per- 



