When I was in Zurich last year I paid a visit to the little, but
not unknown, observatory of its famous polytechnic school. The
professor of astronomy was especially interested in the
observations of the sun with the aid of the spectroscope, and
among the ingenious devices which he described, not the least
interesting was the method of photographing the sun by special
rays of the spectrum, which had been worked out at the Kenwood
Observatory in Chicago. The Kenwood Observatory is not, I believe,
in the eye of the public, one of the noteworthy institutions of
your city which every visitor is taken to see, and yet this
invention has given it an important place in the science of our
day.
Should you ask me what are the most hopeful features in the great
establishment which you are now dedicating, I would say that they
are not alone to be found in the size of your unequalled
telescope, nor in the cost of the outfit, but in the fact that
your authorities have shown their appreciation of the requirements
of success by adding to the material outfit of the establishment
the three men whose works I have described.
Gentlemen of the trustees, allow me to commend to your fostering
care the men at the end of the telescope.
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