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THE arrangements for transferring control of the Norman Lockyer Observatory to the University College of the South West (see Nature of January 3, p. 15) came to fruition on May 1, when the transfer was formally completed at a joint meeting of the two institutions. Sir Richard Gregory (chairman of the Observatory Corporation) gave possession, control and management of the Observatory to the College, and this was accepted on behalf of the College by Sir William Munday, deputy president. A new stage has thus been reached in the history of a unique attempt to develop, by private enterprise, an institution for pure research with no industrial applications.
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Norman Lockyer Observatory of the University College of the South West of England, Exeter. Nature 161, 861–862 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/161861a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/161861a0