haps can be found in no other private Observatory in CaHfornia. 



The six-inch objective equatorial telescope stands upon a 

 steel construction extending from a solid base of concrete many 

 feet below the surface of the ground, and it is entirely disjoined 

 from all portions of the external tower. There are an eight-inch 

 Brashear Reflector, a Spectroscope and a collection of photo- 

 graphic instruments of the latest inventions, and several designs 

 showing the condition which the evolution of our astronomical 

 system has compassed, are from the brain and hands of Mr. 

 Baumgardt. 



Mr. Clark has most generously tendered to the members of 

 this Academy the facilities of his Observatory for inspection 

 and study, for which he has our hearty thanks. 



We place upon record the name of 



THOMAS L. O'BRIEN 



now serving in France as a soldier of the Engineer Corps of 

 the United States Army. 



Down to the last Annual Meeting of this Academy, he was 

 one of our Directors, and during the entire period he held that 

 position he was enthusiastic and energetic in his devotion to our 

 work. He is a man of eminent executive ability and great 

 intellectual endowments, and believing his acquirements might 

 be of value to our country in this hour of heavy affliction, he 

 severed his connection with all business engagements and ten- 

 dered his services to that department in which he thought he 

 might be most useful. 



We most profoundly appreciate the patriotism which induced 

 him to dissolve the affectionate associations of his home, and our 

 Directors, in the record of their meetings, have inscribed a just 

 tribute to his devotion to the cause of righteousness. 



Nearly all the gentlemen of this Academy, 



"As venerable Nestor, hatched in silver," 

 have passed beyond the age when they can march with the rifle 

 to the fields of warfare but, at Milton wrote in the sonnet to his 

 blindness, 



"They also serve who only stand and wait," 

 and we send our younger brothers, our sons and others who 



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