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| On the grounds are dwelling houses for the astronomers, students, and employes, and shops for the workmen. The Observatory is fully provided with instruments, the most important of which are named below. |
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36-inch equatorial; objective by Alvan Clark & Sons, mounting by Warner & Swasey. This instrument has also a photographic corrector of 33 inches, figured by Alvan G. Clark. |
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12-inch equatorial; by Alvan Clark & Sons. |
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6 1/2-inch equatorial; objective by Alvan Clark & Sons, mounting by Warner & Swasey. |
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6 1/2-inch meridian circle; objective by Alvan Clark & Sons, mounting by Repsold. |
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4-inch transit; objective by Alvan Clark & Sons, mounting by Fauth & Co. |
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4-inch comet seeker; by Alvan Clark & Sons. |
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5-inch horizontal photo-heliograph; by Alvan Clark & Sons. |
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Crocker Photographic telescope; objective by Willard, refigured by J. A. Brashear, who provided the mounting also. There are, besides, many minor pieces of astronomical, physical, meteorological, and photographic apparatus, including spectroscopes, seismometers, photometers, micrometers, clocks, chronographs, etc. |
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REGULATIONS REGARDING STUDENTS. |
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The Regents of the University have established the following regulations: "The regular course of undergraduate work in astronomy in the University will be given in part in the Colleges of Science at Berkeley, and the remainder at the Lick Observatory. Students who are graduates of the University of California, or of a university or college of like standing, will also be received at the Lick Observatory to pursue a higher course of instruction in astronomy, provided that, after examination, they show themselves competent. Such students may become candidates for the higher degrees of the University, in the ordinary manner, or they may be received as special students merely. Quarters at Mount Hamilton may be assigned to them during that portion of the year occupied in their work with |
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