University of Pittsburgh - Owl Yearbook (Pittsburgh, PA)

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JOHN ALFRED BRASHEAR, Sc.D., LL.D. Acting Chancellor of the Western University of Pennsylvania, 1901-1904: once Acting Director of the Allegheny Observatory; Fellow A. A. A. S.. Royal Astronomical Society of (ireat Britain; past president of the Western Pennsylvania Engineers Society and the Pittsburgh Academy of Arts and Sciences: member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, British Astronomical Association. Societe Astronomique de France, Societe Beige d'Astronomie. American Philosophical Society. Astrophvsical Society of America, honorary membci of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada. “PA BRASHEAR.”

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ffe THE OLD ALLEGHENY OBSERVATORY FROM ADDRESS OF JOHN ALFRED BRASHEAR. Sc.D.. LL.D. AT THE LAYING OF THE CORNERSTONE OF THE NEW OBSERVATORY, OCTOBER 20. 1906 HE story of the old Allegheny observatory is replete with interest not only to the astronomer, but to the good people of Pittsburgh and Allegheny. For are we not proud of its history, proud of its achievement in the domain of science, proud of the men who have ich to advance our knowledge of the beautiful science of astronomy? For discoveries of momentous interest in solar, stellar and planetary physics have l een made within the walls of the dear old building on Observatory Mill, and to-day the discoveries made there give us a standing in the scientific world second to none. 1 lave we not also a pardonable pride in that noble corps of men who a little more than forty years since planned and budded the old observatory? Budded better than they knew, for forty years ago little was known of the new astronomy in the field in which so much has been sown and reaped at the old institution. On the evening of February 15. 1859, three citizens of this city and Pittsburgh met at the office of Professor Bradley to consider the purchase of a telescope, “the