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LEANDER McCORMICK OBSERVATORY.

The Astronomical Observatory, now building on the University
grounds, the Institution owes to the munificence of Leander J. McCormick,
Esq., of Chicago. It will contain the great refracting telescope
of 26½ inches aperture, constructed for Mr. McCormick by Alvan

Clark & Sons, and given by him to the University. When completed,
the Observatory will be fitted with the working apparatus of the best
modern observatories. The directorship has been endowed with the
sum of $50,000 by friends of the University; and an additional sum of
$25,000, given to the Institution by Wm. H. Vanderbilt, Esq., of New
York, has been invested, that the income may form a working fund for
the Observatory. (See page 36.)