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THE permanent committee of the Astrographic Congress of 1887 will meet at the Paris Observatory, April 19 to 24. Our readers will remember that the great international undertaking—the Carte du Ciel—was inaugurated at a congress held at Paris in 1887. No astronomer who attended the meeting can forget the man whose name will ever be associated with that work—Admiral Mouchez, then director of the Paris Observatory. But for his earnest and sympathetic character and genial influence it is doubtful if this great work could have been launched at all; it certainly could not have been so with the same prospect of success without his tactful and energetic cooperation.
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International Chart of the Heavens . Nature 80, 193–194 (1909). https://doi.org/10.1038/080193a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/080193a0