418 GREAT REFRACTING TELESCOPE AT ELCHIES, IN MORAYSHIRE. 



telescope not only has remarkable powers for accurate stellar observation, but has 

 eflPectually made some small contribution to the furtherance of our knowledge of 

 the heavens ; and also, that Mr J. W. Grant of Elchies, — in conceiving the idea, 

 ordering the execution of, and then erecting that fine instrument in the north of 

 Scotland, on a scale so greatly in advance of whatever had been done in the 

 country up to his own, and even the present time, — deserves extremely well of 

 the members of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and of all scientific men in the j 

 land ; whose only regret must be, and their sympathy will accompany their ' 

 regret, that the failure, and nothing but the failure, at the last moment, of Mr 

 Grant's long Indian-tried health, prevented him from being the first to use his 

 own telescope, and to communicate possibly important discoveries for the promo- 

 tion of science. 



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