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THE British National Committee for Astronomy of the International Research Council has pronounced definitely in support of the proposal to transfer the Radcliffe Observatory, Oxford, to South Africa, rather than to another site in England. This was the view taken at a meeting of the Committee held on May 9, when it was also resolved “that the establishment in South Africa, under English control, of a new observatory equipped with a large reflector, and adequately endowed, would not only be in the best interests of astronomy, but is almost an imperative necessity in the interests of British scientific prestige”. The resolution appears in full in our correspondence columns this week over the signatures of sixteen of the seventeen members of the Committee present. A glance at the list of names should be sufficient to convince anyone that leading astronomical opinion in Great Britain is decidedly in favour of carrying on the scientific work of the Radcliffe Observatory in South Africa instead of continuing it in England.
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The Radcliffe Observatory and its Proposed Removal. Nature 125, 769–771 (1930). https://doi.org/10.1038/125769a0
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