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purchase of a telescope. He secured one at Munich of twelve 
inches aperture—one of the finest then in existence—at a cost of 
9,5 The observat completed in 1845, and at once began 
a career of oe which reflected honor both on founders and 
managers. next observatory to come under our notice is that 
of Harvard ‘Dobie Cambridge, Massachusetts. This is perhaps 
bar most famous of all the American “ Light-houses of the skies,” 
as J. Q. Adams calls them. A meeting of the leading citizens of 
Boston was held in March, 1843, to determine on the construction 
of an observatory. The question was settled in the affirmative, 
and $20,000, to defray expenses, were at once subscribed. It is a 
noteworthy fact that several Insurance Companies were subscribers 
for considerable sums. The observatory was built on ground pur- 
chased by the Harvard University, a splendid refractor of 15 inches 
aperture (then only equalled by the Pulkova ar procured, 
and active operations, under the guidance of the two Bonds, were 
begun in 1847. It is unnecessary to recapitulate the splendid ser- 
vices rendered to nao by the magnificent observatory, which 
still in active opera 
pene ites cae that of Dartmouth ea, 
Hanover, New Hampshire, founded in 1853, is due principally to 
the liberality of one individual, Dr. G. Shattuck, who supplied the 
means for the acquisition of the site, purchase, and construction of 
the necessary instruments. This observatory is now under the 
direction of Mr. C. A. Young, who pam the 91-inch Alvan 
In 1860 a certain number of the 5 saa of Pittsburg and 
Alleghany city, Pennsylvania, undertook to eres an observatory 
for that city. A 13-inch equatorial was secured and the erection 
of a suitable building was commenced ; but funds tailing, the whole 
was about to be seized for debt, when a rich citizen of Pitts burg, 
ithout pre- 
eedence in the annals my. During the night of the 8th 
of July, 1872, a thief sora ti the observatory and stole ome 
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