tests.
He was said to have been among those who objected to Sylvester,
a Jew, receiving a degree.

I had decided to observe the eclipse at Gibraltar. In order that
my results, if I obtained any, might be utilized in the best way, it
was necessary that the longitude of the station should be determined
by telegraph. This had never been done for Gibraltar. How great
the error of the supposed longitude might have been may be inferred
from the fact that a few years later, Captain F. Green of the United
States Navy found the longitude of Lisbon on the Admiralty charts
to be two miles in error. The first arrangements I had to make
in England were directed to this end. Considering the relation
of the world's great fortress to British maritime supremacy, it
does seem as if there were something presumptuous in the coolness
with which I went among the authorities to make arrangements for
the enterprise. Nevertheless, the authorities permitted the work,
with a cordiality which was of itself quite sufficient to remove
any such impression, had it been entertained. The astronomers did,
indeed, profess to feel it humiliating that the longitude of such
a place as Gibraltar should have to be determined from Greenwich by
an American. They did not say "by a foreigner," because they always
protested against Americans looking upon themselves as such. Still,
it would not be an English enterprise if an American carried it out.
I suspect, however, that my proceedings were not looked upon with
entire dissatisfaction even by the astronomers. They might prove
as good a stimulant to their government in showing a little more
enterprise in that direction as the arrival of our eclipse party did.

The longitude work naturally took me to the Royal Observatory which
has made the little town of Greenwich so famous. It is situated some
eight miles east from Charing Cross, on a hill in Greenwich Park,
with a pleasant outlook toward the Thames. From my youth up I had
been working with its observations, and there was no institution
in the world which I had approached, or could approach, with the
interest I felt in ascending the little hill on which it is situated.
When the Calabria was once free from her wharf in New York harbor,
and on her way down the Narrows, the foremost thought was, "Off for
Europe; we shall see Greenwich!" The day of my arrival in London
I had written to Professor Airy, and received an answer the same
evening, inviting