Item 118 - Letter from George Airy

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Add. MS a/200/118

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Letter from George Airy

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  • 13 Apr. 1857 (Creation)

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3 pp.

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Further to Le Verrier's principle, that France ought to be in the first rank in observations as well as every thing else, GA thinks his 'bold talk is admirable' - but he does not agree: 'The Greenwich Observatory has grown up like the Britishread more

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