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JOHN, clergyman; born in England in 1607. He an American was graduated at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, England, and came to the United States in 1637. He was made a citizen of Massachusetts and given a tract of land in Charlestown, where he began preaching as a Congregational minister, and in his will bequeathed $3,750 and 320 volumes from his library for the establishment of a college. A granite monument was erected over his memorial statue on the Delta at Harvard HARVARD UNIVERSITY.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY.
HARVARD OBSERVATORY, in Cambridge, Mass., founded in 1843, equipped with a 15-inch Merz & Mahler equatorial in 1847, with an 84-inch Troughton & Simms meridian-circle in 1870, with various photometers by Professor Pickering since 1876, and with a large num graphic telescopes, a part of the largest of them being loaned to the observatory by Mrs. Henry Draper since 1835. It is the richest endowed and in some respects (especially photographically) the best equipped observatory in the world. number and variety of photo-