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Show SCIENTISTS TO HOLD BANQUET Dinner Engagement Made 28 Years Ago Will Be Kept in Oakland. Oakland. CaJ . Nov. 24. A dinner engagement made twenty-eight ear6 ago. ar which three famous ropre-sentatlve ropre-sentatlve of the science of astronomy astron-omy will bo seated will be kept tonight to-night whon Dr. J A. Brashear of Pittsburg, dines at the home of Professor Pro-fessor Charles A. BurckliaPr. director direc-tor of chabot observatory, with Am brose Swnsoy, 0f Cleveland, as the other guogL Brashear is master of the art of grinding grrar lenses for refracUng light Swasey built the Lick and Yerkes telescopes and Installed the telescope on Mount Hamilton. It was on tho anniversary' of his fiftieth birthday that Professor Burckhalter last entertained these two co-adjutors in his profession. At that time they said they would dine with blm twenty-four years heni a Tomorrow Is Professor Burckhalter s seventy-fourth birthday and his gueatri arrived today to keep their twenty-four year old engagement. |