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| of astronomy. The attempt has been to select a certain number of fields and to attain excellence in each field selected. Whenever an increased endowment, by gift or otherwise, becomes available, new fields can be occupied, with every prospect of success. The site of the Observatory is very favorable in all respects. Its instrumental equipment is unrivalled. |
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COOPERATING FOREIGN ASTRONOMERS. |
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The Lick Observatory is in close cooperation with all other astronomical observatories and with astronomers abroad and at home. Several foreign astronomers are giving a large part of their working time to measures and discussions of astronomical photographs made here. Among these gentlemen especial mention should be made of Professor Weinek, Director of the Observatory of Prague, who is engaged in making enlarged drawings and photographs from the negatives of the moon taken here; Baron Albert von Rothschild of Vienna is working in the same direction; Professor Franz of the University of Koenigsberg; Dr. Victor Nielsen of Copenhagen ; Dr. Boeddicker, astronomer in Lord Rosse's Observatory; A. Stanley Williams, F.R.A.S., of London, and others. All of these astronomers are assisting the Observatory in different researches by systematic work of the same kind which they would do if we were so fortunate as to number them among our immediate colleagues. |
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TIME SERVICE. |
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Accurate time signals are sent from the Observatory every day at noon, and are received at every railway station between San Francisco and Ogden; San Francisco and El Paso; San Francisco and Portland, Oregon. In this way the Observatory furnishes exact time (Pacific Standard time), without cost, to the inhabitants of many States and Territories. |
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EARTHQUAKE OBSERVATIONS. |
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A complete set of earthquake instruments registers the time and intensity of all shocks felt here, and a catalogue of such statistics is yearly printed. These are the first systematic observations of the kind made in California. Meteorological records are also kept. |
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