c. 1880s Punahou school, HI, and the Lick Observatory, Ca.
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David Kalakaua reigned over the Kingdom of Hawai`i from 1874 to 189l, he visited the Lick Observatory in California and in a letter to Captain R. S. Floyd on November 22, 1880, had expressed a desire to see an observatory established in Hawai`i.