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THE LICK OBSERVATORY. | 17 |
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The Observatory buildings are open to visitors daily during office hours. For the present, visitors are admitted to look through the great telescope every Saturday evening between the hours of seven and ten, and at that time only. Whenever the work of the Observatory permits, other telescopes also will be put at the disposition of visitors on Saturdays, between the same hours. |
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It is expected by setting apart these times for visitors (which allow freer access to the Lick Observatory than is allowed to any other observatory of note in the world) that all interested may be able to arrange their visits in conformity to them; and that the remaining hours of the week will he kept uninterrupted, in order that the astronomers may do the work upon which the good name of the Observatory depends. |
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Visitors who come in the daytime are personally conducted through the building at 1:30 P. M., and the uses of the instruments are explained to them. On Saturday evenings the entire staff is on public duty. The annual number of visitors to the Observatory exceeds 5000. While the Observatory has no financial interest in the coming of visitors, yet no pains are spared to make the time spent here interesting and profitable to them. |
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There are no hotel accommodations at the summit. |
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The average population of Mount Hamilton during the past five years has been forty-five. There is a public school on the mountain; the school-house is the property of the Observatory; the teacher is supplied by Santa Clara County. |
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The Astronomical Society of the Pacific holds its summer meetings in the Library of the Lick Observatory. |
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