GIFT TO THE SHATTUCK OBSERVATORY
Dr. Frederick C. Shattuck of Boston, Harvard '68, until recently Jackson Professor of Clinical Medicine at Harvard, has presented to the College a five-inch telescope and portable mounting. The lens was made by Alvan Clark of Cambridge, Mass., celebrated throughout the astronomical world for his lenses.
It is intended that this telescope shall be used by students taking elementary courses in astronomy—a use for which it is well fitted because of its convenient size,—thus leaving the nine-inch equatorial free for photographic and visual work with advanced students
The gift of Dr. Shattuck represents the interest of his family in the observatory, for the observatory itself was the gift of his grandfather, Dr. George C. Shattuck, Dartmouth 1803, who in 1852 put at the disposal of the trustees of the College $700 for the construction and equipment of an observatory. The gift was conditioned on the addition by the trustees of whatever might be necessary to complete the building and the equipment. The work of construction was done under the direction of Professor Ira Young and Professor O. P. Hubbard, and the purchase of the equipment by Professor Young, who went to Europe for the purpose, accompanied by his son, Charles A. Young, who afterward became famous in the annals of astronomy. The cost of the building and the equipment was so carefully guarded that the trustees added to Dr. Shattuck's gift only $l2OO.
When Professor Young went to Europe, Dr. Shattuck added to his previous gift $2000, which was to be used in the purchase of books for the library, $l200 for books in mathematics, and $800 for books in Latin. At an earlier time Dr. Shattuck had given to the College the portraits of its eminent counsel in its great controversy with the state.
