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The fixed part of the tube can be made almost indefinitely long without inconvenience, and with enormous advantage to the optical qualities of a large instrument. Finally, the costly and unmanageable cupola is got rid of, a mere shed serving all purposes of protection required for the "coudé." The desirability of some such change as that which M. Loewy has realised has been felt by others.
But his career, too, was unhappily cut short by an unforeseen death on October 20, 1896; and the more eminent among the many qualifications of his successor, M. Maurice Loewy, are of the practical kind. The sublime problem of the construction of the heavens has not been neglected amid the multiplicity of tasks imposed upon the cultivators of astronomy by its rapid development.
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