468 Letter from B. A. Gould. 
cut down, those for scientific purposes have been maintained 
intact, and all which I thought it right to ask for the Observatory 
has been voted by the Congre 
to the demands u t, the mechanical ingenuity and perse- 
verance of the assistants has already done much, 1,1 ig 
confident yet more toward remedying the defects. And the 
, do yet mo ; ae 
lathe and tools for working in metals, which I brought out with 
st Dee i 
more successful than his predecesso i 
the telescope and the chemicals, and has already, in spite of re! 
difficulties, obtained about seventy good plates, comprising twenty 
on 
are nearly or quite a hundred stars, in the cluster 4.323. We have 
i i Mars, and the photographs — 
of the surface quite clearly, but they are not as We 
_ defined as could be wished. I have now sent home orders for since’ 
