Mr.  Davidson  persuaded  him  that  a  large  telescope
would  be  a  very  good  form  of  memorial;  and  the
bones  of  James  Lick  now  rest  under  the  great
36-inch  telescope  on  the  top  of  Mount  Hamilton.
He  died,  indeed,  before  it  was  completed,  and  was
temporarily  buried  elsewhere  :  but  when  the  great
telescope  was  at  last  in  place,  his  bones  were  dug
up  and  deposited  under  his  chosen  memorial.  Only
one  possibility  seems  to  threaten  their  peaceful
rest  :  California  is  rather  a  region  for  earthquakes,
and  already  the  Observatory  has  been  twice  seri-
ously shaken.  San  Francisco  was,  as  you  know,
wrecked  by  an  earthquake  some  few  years  ago.
The  Lick  Observatory  is  some  distance  away  from


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San  Francisco  and  only  suffered  slightly,  but  a
telescope  is  a  delicate  instrument  that  cannot  stand
much  shaking  without  being  damaged.  We  must
hope  that  good  luck  will  attend  the  future.
One  achievement  of  the  Lick  telescope  was  to
discover  a  new  satellite  of  Jupiter  in  1892.  Of
course  the  telescope  could  not  have  done  it  without
the  sharp  eyes  of  Professor  Barnard  behind  it ;  but
we  must  give  the  telescope  its  share  of  credit,  for  very
few  others  have  managed  to  show  the  satellite  even
now  we  know  it  is  there,  and  it  is  much  easier  to
see  something  after  it  has  been  discovered  than  to
find  it  in  the  first  place.
