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and others, have produced many large re-
                                         fractors.
                                            Cooke, of York, made an object-glass,
                                         25-inch diameter, for Newall, of Gateshead,
                                         which has done splendid work at Cambridge.
                                         We have the Washington 26-inch by Clark,
                                                                             ˆ
                                         the Vienna 27-inch by Grubb, the Nice 29A-
                                         inch by Gautier, the Pulkowa 30-inch by
                                         Clark.  Then there was the sensation of
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