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ON the initiative of the Bureau des Longitudes, the directors of the various national ephemerides were invited by M. Baillaud, director of the Paris Observatory, to assemble there on Monday, October 23. The objects of the reunion were to consider what steps, if any, should be taken to extend the scope of the various ephemerides for the purposes of astronomy, and at the same time to. effect economy by combined action and interchange of computations. A small number of the leading practical astronomers were also invited to represent the needs of astronomy of precision.
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The International Conference at Paris on Nautical Almanacs . Nature 88, 149–151 (1911). https://doi.org/10.1038/088149b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/088149b0