. A brief account of the Lick observatory of the University of California. ed and forty-nine acres additional werepurchased by Mr. Lick, and a tract of forty acres was addedby gift of R. F. Morrow, Esq., in 1886. The north half ofsection sixteen of the township was granted to the University,for the use of the Observatory, by the Legislature of Californiain 1888. This land (320 acres) is continuous with the grantfrom the United States. Congress also granted in 1892 anadditional tract of 680 acres, making the total area of theReservation about 2581 acres. A road to the summit of MountHamilton (4
. A brief account of the Lick observatory of the University of California. ed and forty-nine acres additional werepurchased by Mr. Lick, and a tract of forty acres was addedby gift of R. F. Morrow, Esq., in 1886. The north half ofsection sixteen of the township was granted to the University,for the use of the Observatory, by the Legislature of Californiain 1888. This land (320 acres) is continuous with the grantfrom the United States. Congress also granted in 1892 anadditional tract of 680 acres, making the total area of theReservation about 2581 acres. A road to the summit of MountHamilton (4209 feet above the sea), was built by Santa ClaraCounty, at a cost of about $78,000, in the year 1876. BUILDINGS AND Observatory consists of a Main Building, containingcomputing rooms, library (of 3000 books and 3000 pamphlets),and the domes of the 36-inch equatorial and the 12-inchequatorial; and Detached Buildings to shelter the MeridianCircle, the Transit, the Horizontal Photo-Heliograph, theportable Equatorial, and the Crocker Photographic THE LICK OBSERI rA 7V A Y. 11 On the grounds are dwelling houses for the astronomers,students, and employes, and shops for the workmen. TheObservatory is fully provided with instruments, the most im-portant of which are named below. 36-inch equatorial; objective bjT Alvan Clark & Sons, mount-ing by Warner & Swasey. This instrument has also a photo-graphic corrector of 33 inches, figured by Alvan G. Clark. 12-inch equatorial; by Alvan Clark & Sous. 6)4-inch equatorial; objective by Alvan Clark & Sons,mounting by Warner & Swasey. 6_^-inch meridian circle; objective by Alvan Clark & Sons,mounting by Repsold. 4-inch transit; objective by Alvan Clark & Sons, mountingby Fauth & Co. 4-inch comet seeker; by Alvan Clark & Sons. 5-inch horizontal photo-heliograph; by Alvan Clark & Sons. Crocker Photographic telescope; objective by Willard, re-figured by J. A. Brashear, who provided the mounting are, besides, m
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