Pioneers of Science in America [microform] : Sketches of Their Lives And Scientific Work
Pioneers of Science in America [microform] : Sketches of Their Lives And Scientific Work
William Jay Youmans
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Josiah Quincy, who had given Mr. Bond early encourage- ment, was now President of Harvard College. It occurred to him, to use his own words, " that if Mr. Bond could be induced to transfer his apparatus and residence to Cambridge and pur- sue his observations there, under the auspices of the university, it would have an important influence in clearing the way for the establishment of an efficient observatory in connection with that seminary." There was little inducement for Mr. Bond to make the... change. His business was prosperous and his home life among friends and neighbours whom he had known for years was very pleasant. The college could offer him no salary — only the use of a house. In his excessive modesty he feared that the arrangement proposed would arouse great expectations that he with the facilities at his command would be unable to satisfy. He made other objections, but all were overcome, and on No- vember 30, 1839, he entered into a contract with the college corporation, agreeing to.
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