_Report on Amasa Holcomb’s Reflecting Telescope._
[From _Journal of the Franklin Institute_, July 1834, new ser. vol. 14
(whole no. 18), pp. 169-172.]
The Committee on Science and the Arts, constituted by the
Franklin Institute of the State of Pennsylvania for the
promotion of the Mechanic Arts, to whom was referred for
examination a Reflecting Telescope, manufactured by Mr. Amasa
Holcomb, of Southwick, Hampden county, Massachusetts,