but the details will be considered
subsequently.

From the above statement it will be seen that photographic apparatus has
been furnished on a scale unequaled elsewhere. But what is more
important, Mrs. Draper has not only provided the means for keeping these
instruments actively employed, several of them during the whole of every
clear night, but also of reducing the results by a considerable force of
computers, and of publishing them in a suitable form. A field of work of
great extent and promise is open, and there seems to be an opportunity
to erect to the name of Dr. Henry Draper a memorial such as heretofore
no astronomer has received. One cannot but hope that such an example may
be imitated in other departments of astronomy, and that hereafter other
names may be commemorated, not by a needless duplication of unsupported
observatories, but by the more lasting monuments of useful work
accomplished.

EDWARD C. PICKERING,

_Director of Harvard College Observatory_.

Cambridge, Mass., U.S.A., March 1, 1887.

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THE WINNER OF THE DERBY.

The dark bay colt Merry Hampton had never run in public before winning
the Derby on the 25th of May last. This colt, by Hampton out of Doll
Tear-sheet, was one of Mr. Crowther Harrison's draught of yearlings sent
up to the Doncaster sales in 1885, and fell to the bid of Mr. T. Spence,
acting for Mr. Abingdon, for 3,100 guineas. The Oaks, on May 27, was won
by a daughter of the same sire. Merry Hampton is to compete for the
Grand Prize of Paris and for the St. Leger. He has also liabilities in
the Thirty-ninth Triennial and Grand Duke Michael stakes at Newmarket,
First October; Newmarket Derby at the Second October; Ascot Derby and
Twenty-fifth New Biennial; Drawing-room stakes at Goodwood; Great
International Breeders' Foal stakes at Kempton Park, August; North Derby
at Newcastle, Summer; St. George stakes at Liverpool, July; Bickerstaffe
stakes and St. Leger at Liverpool, August; Midland Derby stakes at
Leicester, July; and Ebor St. Leger at York, August; in addition to the
following races in 1888: Champion stakes at Newmarket, Second October;
Rous Memorial and Hardwicke stakes at Ascot, and Eclipse stakes at
Sandown Park, Second Summer. Merry Hampton's name also appears in the
Kempton Park Royal stakes of 10,000 sovereigns at the Spring Meeting of
1889.--_Ill. London News_.

[Illustration: MERRY HAMPTON. THE WINNER OF THE DERBY