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IF it were necessary to offer any apology for the short series of articles of which the first is now presented to the readers of NATURE, it might be found in the fact that, so far as I know, nothing fulfilling the above title has been put into circulation in England for more than forty years. This is the more remarkable when one considers the great development of astronomy in this country during the present generation, a development the credit of which is far more due to amateur effort than to the influence of Governments or public establishments. The reason I have fixed upon the year 1844 is that that was the year in which Admiral Smyth published his well-known “Bedford Catalogue of Celestial Objects,” to which he prefixed. certain chapters dealing with the construction and management of small observatories.
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CHAMBERS, G. Hints on the Construction and Equipment of Observatories for Amateurs . Nature 33, 56–61 (1885). https://doi.org/10.1038/033056a0
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