Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 90, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 April 1919 — New Observatory in Arizona. [ARTICLE]

New Observatory in Arizona.

In consequence of a gift of $60,000 from the late Mrs. H. S. Steward, of Tucson, as a memorial to her husband, a new astronomical observatory is about to be erected on the campus of the University of Arizona, at Tucson. The principal telescope, a(J 37Inch reflector, was ordered some time ago, but work on it has l»een delayed by the war. the observatory will be under the direction of Prof. A. E. Douglass.-—Scientific American.