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Title: The Uses of Astronomy
An Oration Delivered at Albany on the 28th of July, 1856

Author: Edward Everett

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Language: English

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THE USES OF ASTRONOMY.

AN ORATION

Delivered at Albany, on the 28th of July, 1856

BY

EDWARD EVERETT,

ON THE

OCCASION OF THE INAUGURATION OF THE DUDLEY
ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORY,

WITH A

CONDENSED REPORT OF THE PROCEEDINGS,

AND AN ACCOUNT OF THE

DEDICATION OF NEW YORK STATE GEOLOGICAL HALL.

NEW YORK:
PUBLISHED BY ROSS & TOUSEY,
103 NASSAU STREET.
1856.

A NOTE EXPLANATORY.

The undersigned ventures to put forth this report of Mr.
EVERETT'S Oration, in connection with a condensed account of the
Inauguration of the Dudley Observatory, and the Dedication of the
New State Geological Hall, at Albany,--in the hope that the
demand which has exhausted the newspaper editions, may exhaust
this as speedily as possible; not that he is particularly