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LEANDER McCORMICK OBSERVATORY.

The Astronomical Observatory on the University grounds is the gift
of Leander J. McCormick, Esq., of Chicago. It contains the great refracting
telescope of 26 inches aperture, constructed for Mr. McCormick

by Alvan Clark & Sons, and given by him to the University. The directorship
has been endowed with the sum of $50,000 by the Alumni
and other friends of the University; and an additional sum of $25,000,
given to the Institution by the late Wm. H. Vanderbilt, Esq., of New
York, has been invested, that the income may form a working fund for
the Observatory. (See page 32.)