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4 or 5 feet diameter. If Senator Stanford should so far approve the project as to consent to subscribe the half of the fund the larger instrument could bear his name and be erected near the fine museum it is reputed he intends to establish at Palo Alto, Cal'a, or on some of the suitable elevations that may be found in the dry, clear atmosphere of Arizona or New Mexico, an interior location whose climate and sky are worthy rivals of those of Chaldea. The smaller instrument might be set up in connection with the Signal Service at Cornell, a proper building for which could be erected at a very moderate cost.

In the mean time while waiting to hear from Senator Stanford I would endeavor