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16G THE LATE EARL OF CUAWFOllD.
and manipulating niacliines. The present writer was
told by one of the party aent to observe the transit of
Venus by H.M. Government, that on their arrival near
Cadiz it was found that none of them could erect tin'
telescopes; and that if Lord Lindnuy had not com';
over from his own station and erected them, the
Government party would have observed nothing.
Earl Ludovic equipped a splendid observatory at
Dunecht in Aberdeenshire, and after he repurcluised
Balcarres from his maternal uncle, Sir Coutts Lindsay,
and migrated there, he presented his instruments and
astronomical library to the nation f^r use at Edinburgh.
Two of his assistants became distinguished astrunumers,
viz. : Professor Copeland at Edinburgh and Sir David
Gill at the Cape, both Astronomers Royal.
Lord Crawford was twice Vice-President of the
Institution of Electrical Engineers ; was President of
the Royal Astronomical Society ;
an Honorary Member
of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, and was
elected in 1878 a Fellow of the Royal Society. No
better appreciation of his service on behalf of students
has appeared than the obituary notice published by
the Faraday House Journal in February 1913.
Lord Crawford was a great librarian, and the
catalogue which he published of his vast library is
considered a masterpiece. Finding it necessary at his
father's death to sell a portion of the library, he con-
tributed Introductions to two sale catalogues of Messrs
Sotheby, which exhibit a tender love of books.
Afterwards he collected a Philatetic library, and a
great mass of documents relating to the actors in the
French Revolution, and was preparing a catalogue of
the latter at the time of his death. lie had also
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