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THE annual visitation of the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, by the Board of Visitors, took place on Saturday, June 5, when the Astronomer Royal presented his report, which deals with the year ended on May 10, 1926. It commences with an allusion to the 250th anniversary of the foundation of the Observatory, which was celebrated last July; the King and Queen honoured the Observatory by their presence; the King presented a signed portrait of himself, which has been hung in the Octagon Room. Many foreign astronomers, who had come to England for the meeting of the International Astronomical Union at Cambridge, were also present.
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01 June 1926
In NATURE for June 12, p. 839, last paragraph, for “short” read “Shortt.”
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Visitation of the Royal Observatory, Greenwich. Nature 117, 839 (1926). https://doi.org/10.1038/117839a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/117839a0