pointment he con- workmanship which no other competitor has tinued to hold until his death; although for ever been able to equal, secured, and retained several years past his failing health prevented 4 him from delivering all the lectures of his trations and other reproductions for the Patent… … During the years 1846-49 Professor Loomis each winter great dinners, prepared as to the was for several months employed in telegraphic minutest details under his personal direction. He was almost the successor of Sam Ward. His comparisons for longitude in concert with Sears C. Walker. The…
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