Mark remarks:

> Wirt notes:
>  >...  The large central
>  >telescope, a 36-in affair, is mounted on a single-pier equatorial mount,
>  and
>  >the benefactor of the Lick Observatory, James Lick, is buried in the
center
>  >of that pier.
>
>  Mr. Rosenblatt adds:
>  > I do know where Lick Observatory is having had the chance to
>  > visit on a
>  > school field trip more years ago than I care (or maybe that
>  > should be can)
>  > remember. I remember the astronomer giving the tour was asked
>  > if he knew how
>  > to use all of the telescopes there. He stood up straight ,
>  > threw back his
>  > shoulders and exclaimed, "I can man any Lick in the building."
>
>  And I wonder, is there a Lick of truth to any of this?

     http://www.eastbayhumanists.org/lick.html
     http://www.snap-design.com/HVAG/lick/history/ba3/3ed3.html
     http://casswww.ucsd.edu/public/tutorial/Telescope.html
     http://www.astro.princeton.edu/~pathall/PHOTOS/mid00/lick_tomb.jpg

Wirt Atmar

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