Harvard Observatory

in Cambridge, Ma ., founded in 1843. It is the richest endowed and in some respects (especially photographically) the best equipped observatory in the world. It has published 17 quarto volumes of its.‘* Annals.” Harvard University, the oldest institution of learning in the United States, founded in Cambridge, Ma ., 3 miles from Boston, in 16386. At a meeting of the General Court of the Colony of Ma achusetts Bay convened on Sept. 8, oe six years after its first settlement, it was voted to f= £400 toward a “schoale or eolledge,” and the ensuing year 12 of the most eminent men of the colony, including John Cotton and John Winthrop, were authorized “ to take order for a college at New town.’”’ The name of Cambridge was soon afterward adopted in recognition of the English University, where many of the colonists had been educated. In 1638 John Harvard, a young non-conformist minister, died in Charles town, we to the college £750 and his library o over 300 volumes. The institution was immediately opened, and waa. named after its first benefactor. Its first president was the Rey.