The story of the sun, moon, and stars . near St. Petersburg; Lis-bon, and at Greenwich in England. In America,though only in recent years has astronomy been culti-vated with ardor, there are observatories of more orless importance,—the National Observatory at Wash-ington, D. C.; the Cincinnati Observatory, projectedby the late General O. M. Mitchel; the Dudley Ob-servatory, founded by Mrs. Blandina Dudley in honorof her husband, at Albany, N. Y.; the Lick Observa-tory, founded by James Lick, on Mount Hamilton, Cal.;and the Yerkes Observatory, connected with the Chi-cago University, founded by
The story of the sun, moon, and stars . near St. Petersburg; Lis-bon, and at Greenwich in England. In America,though only in recent years has astronomy been culti-vated with ardor, there are observatories of more orless importance,—the National Observatory at Wash-ington, D. C.; the Cincinnati Observatory, projectedby the late General O. M. Mitchel; the Dudley Ob-servatory, founded by Mrs. Blandina Dudley in honorof her husband, at Albany, N. Y.; the Lick Observa-tory, founded by James Lick, on Mount Hamilton, Cal.;and the Yerkes Observatory, connected with the Chi-cago University, founded by Charles T. Yerkes. Be-sides these, there are observatories connected with someof our other leading universities and colleges, as thoseof Harvard, at Cambridge, Mass.; Yale University;Williams College; West Point Military Academy; Am-herst College ; Princeton; Dartmouth; Michigan Uni-versity ; Hamilton College, N. Y., and several others. The largest and best refracting telescopes in theworld are those at Lick Observatory and at Yerkes. 409 410 STORY OF THE SUN, MOON, AND STARS. Observatory, now in charge of Professor E. E. Barnard,who, while at the head of the Lick Observatory, dis-covered the fifth satellite of Jupiter, and determinedthe character of the inner ring of Saturn. The best
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