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SIZE OF THE PRINCIPAL TELESCOPES.
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II. Refractors.
| OWNER OR DIRECTOR, AND OBSERVATORY. |
Constructed by | APERTURE. | FOCAL LENGTH. | Remarks | ||||
| English Inches, etc. |
French Inches. |
Metres | English Feet etc. |
French Feet etc. |
Metres. | |||
| Lyman, Yale College | A. Clark & Sons. | 28 | Constructing | |||||
| Littrow, Vienna | Grubb | 27 | Constructing. | |||||
| McCormick ? | A. Clark & Sons. | 26¼ | 33 ft. | |||||
| C. H. Davis, Washington | A. Clark & Sons. | 26 | 390 in. | |||||
| Newall, Gateshead | Cooke | 25 | 29 ft. | |||||
| Buckingham, London | Buckingham | |||||||
| University of Chicago | A. Clark & Sons. | 18.5 | 23 ft. | |||||
| Winnecke, Strasbourg | Merz | 18 | Constructing | |||||
| Pickering, Harvard Coll. | Merz | 15 | 23 ft | |||||
| O. Struve, Pulkova | Merz | 14.93 | 270.6 | |||||
| Lord Lindsay, Dun Echt. | Grubb | 15 | 15 ft. | |||||
| Huggins, London | Grubb | 15 | ||||||
| Downsede College, Bath | 15.5 | Destroyed by fire in 1867. | ||||||
| Cooper, Markree Castle | (?) | 14 | 25 ft. | |||||
| Oom, Lisbon | Merz | 14 | ||||||
| C.H.F. Peters Clinton. | Spencer | 13.5 | 16 ft. | |||||
| Boss, Albany | Fitz | 13 | 182 in. | |||||
| Rutherford, New York. | Rutherford | 13 | Photographic. | |||||
| Langley, Pittsburg. | 13 | |||||||
| Watson, Ann Arbor. | Fitz | 12.5 | 17 ft. | |||||
| Airy, Greenwich. | Merz & Simms. | 12.5 | 16.6 | |||||
| Mitchell, Vassar College. | Fitz, reworked by Clark |
12.33 | ||||||
| Pritchard, Oxford. | Grubb. | 12.25 | ||||||
| Pritchett, Glasgow, U.S. | A. Clark & Sons. | 12.25 | 17 ft. | |||||
| Le Verrier, Paris. | Secretans & Ei chens |
12 | 5 | |||||
| Littrow, Vienna. | A. Clark & Sons. | 12 | ||||||
| Adams, Cambridge. | Cauchoix | 12 | 20 ft. | |||||
| Ball, Dublin. | Cauchoix | 12? | 12? | |||||
| H. Draper, near N. York. | A. Clark & Sons. | 12 | ||||||
| Main, Oxford. | Cauchoix | 12? | 12? | |||||
| Pritchard, Oxford. | Grubb | 12 | ||||||
| Le Verrier, Paris | 0.82 | |||||||
| White, Brooklyn. | Fitz, reworked by Clark |
117⁄8 | ||||||
| Stone, Cincinnati | Merz | 11.5 | 17 ft. | |||||
| Von Bülow, Bothkamp | Schroeder | 11 | 16 | |||||
| Lamont, Munich | Merz | 10.5 | 15 | |||||
| Schjellerup, Copenhagen | Merz | 10.5 | 15 | |||||
| Van Vleck, Middletown, US |
A. Clark & Sons | 11 | ||||||
| ——, Florence | Amiel | 11 | ||||||
| Oom, Lisbon | A. Clark & Sons. | Photographic | ||||||
| Rutherford, New York | Rutherford and Fitz |
10.5 | Photographic | |||||
| D’Aguillar, Madrid | Merz | 10 | ||||||
| Bredichin, Moscow | Merts, reworked by Clark |
10 | 16 | |||||
| Mitchie, West Point | Fitz, reworked by Clark |
10 | 14 ft. | |||||
| Stephan, Marseilles | Eichens | 0.25 | 3 | |||||
| Barclay, Leyton | Cooke | 10 | 12 ft. | |||||
| Fletcher, Cumberland | 10 | 12 " | ||||||
| ——, Dorpat | Fraunhofer | 9.62 | 14 | |||||
| Förster, Berlin | Merz | 9.62 | 14 | |||||
| Secchi, Rome | Merz | 9.62 | 14 | |||||
| Tacchi, Palermo | Merz | 9.62 | 14 | |||||
| Kowalski, Kazan | Merz | 9.62 | 14 | |||||
| C. H. Davis, Washington | Merz, reworked by Clark |
9.62 | ||||||
| Lefont, Calcutta | Steinheil | 9.62 | 12 Ft. | |||||
| Pogson, Madras | Lerebours and Secretan |
9 | 9? | |||||
| Buckingham, London | 9 | 9? | ||||||
| Young, Dartmouth | A. Clark & Sons. | 9.38 | 12 ft. | |||||
| Grant, Glasgow | 9 | |||||||
| Crosley, Halifax | Cooke | 9.33 | ||||||
| Edgecomb, Hartford | A Clark & Sons. | 9.4 | 9 | |||||
| Schultz, Uppsala | Steinheil | |||||||
| Barneby, Worcester | Cooke | 9 | ||||||
| Bruhns. Leipsic | Steinhell, Pistor | 8 | 12 | |||||
| Menten, Quito | Merz | 9 | 117 | |||||
