Mr. Frank McClean has expressed his desire to present a large equatorially mounted telescope, equipped for photographic and spectroscopic work, to the Royal Observatory at the Cape of Good Hope in 1894.
With this object he has arranged with Sir Howard Grubb, for
the construction of a photographic refracting telescope of 24 inches aperture,
and for an object glass prism to work with it, having a refracting angle of 7
degrees and the same aperture as the object-glass. The glass for the object
glass and prism have already been secured, and the definitive order for the
instrument was given to Sir Howard Grubb on May 4 last.
Coupled with the photographic telescope, there is to be a
visual refracting telescope of 18 inches aperture. The mounting is to be
sufficiently elevated to allow a slit spectroscope, for the determination of
stellar motions in the line of sight, to be attached to the photographic
telescope; and the gift will include such a spectroscope, as well as an
observatory of light construction.
Although completed in 1898 it was not officially opened until 1901 and the telescope was called the McClean Telescope.
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