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From: Douglas Denny
Date: 2010 Mar 4, 05:49 -0800
In view of better references DELETE this:-
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"Ref: A link to Lords discussing the Kew Observatory and sextant error testing.
http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/lords/1902/nov/24/errors-of-sextants
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Fascinating exchange in the H.O.Lords.
Thank you for the reference.
It confirms as I suspected that the Kew Observatory was for some considerable time a branch of the Admiralty, though this is not noted elsewhere specifically in the other brief history synopses available".
ENDS.
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Douglas Denny.
Chichester. England.
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