A little ramble through 19th century astronomy - Leverrier and the French National Observatory in 1873

 Nature,  June 19^th 1873

M Leverrier has entered on his new office of Director of the French National Observatory. The Observatory Board has decided on his formal proposition that they shall co-operate with the Bureau des Longitudes for taking a new measure of the French arc from Dunkerque to Oran via Spain. Commander Perrier will be the chief geodesist for that most important survey.

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