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THE announcement in the daily Press that the Admiralty has decided, in principle, that the Royal Observatory shall be moved from Greenwich to a new site, where conditions are more favourable for astronomical observations, will not have come as a surprise to those who have watched the trend of events in recent years. Bather is it a matter for surprise that the Observatory has been able to carry on for so long, under conditions of increasing difficulty, on its original site. Many observatories elsewhere have been compelled by similar circumstances to move. In the case of the Royal Observatory, the long associations with Greenwich, the advantages in fundamental astronomy of continuity of observation on the same site and with the same instruments, and its position on the prime meridian, have no doubt all played a part in postponing a decision the ultimate inevitability of which must long have been apparent.
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The Royal Observatory. Nature 153, 175–177 (1944). https://doi.org/10.1038/153175a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/153175a0