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ASPECTS OF AMERICAN ASTRONOMY
[Footnote: Address delivered at the University of Chicago, October
22, 1897, in connection with the dedication of the Yerkes
Observatory. Printed m the Astro physical Journal. November, 1897.]
The University of Chicago yesterday accepted one of the most
munificent gifts ever made for the promotion of any single
science, and with appropriate ceremonies dedicated it to the
increase of our knowledge of the heavenly bodies.
The president of your university has done me the honor of inviting
me to supplement what was said on that occasion by some remarks of
a more general nature suggested by the celebration. One is
naturally disposed to say first what is uppermost in his mind. At
the present moment this will naturally be the general impression
made by what has been seen and heard. The ceremonies were
attended, not only by a remarkable delegation of citizens, but by
a number of visiting astronomers which seems large when we
consider that the profession itself is not at all numerous in any
country. As one of these, your guests, I am sure that I give
expression only to their unanimous sentiment in saying that we
have been extremely gratified in many ways by all that we have
seen and heard.
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