Report of the Committee of the Overseers of Harvard College Appointed to Visit the Observatory: 1861 (1862) |
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1st set 51 Messier achromatic aid to establish American Academy asteroid Astronomer Royal Bayerische Staatsbibliothek München bright California Boundary Survey catalogue cient to maintain clock comet of June condition for active curved tail dark channels Director discovery Elements by T. H. Elements of Comet engraved enterprise purely scientific Equatorial FEBRUARY 20 G. P. Bond H. P. Tuttle Harvard College influence and pecuniary instrument letter-press Lord Rosse magnitude Maja mass of Neptune means for conducting Motion of Sirius naked eye nearly nebula of Orion notice nucleus object Observations of Comet Observatory of Harvard operations greatly impairs optical power OVERSEERS OF HARVARD Planet position principal ray proper motion regarded as gratifying right ascension Royal Astronomical Society Royal Observatory serious discouragement Sirius in Declination stars straight ray Struve suffi sufficient pecuniary means sustain the Obser T. H. Safford telescope tion Titania trast with similar Uranus vatory venerable Josiah Quincy visit the Observatory