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AN interesting historical document is described by Mr. Robert S. Whipple in “An Old Catalogue and what it tells us of the Scientific Instruments and Curios collected by Queen Charlotte and King George III.”(Reprinted from the Proceedings of the Optical Convention, 1926. Part 2.) The catalogue, which has been preserved at the Kew Observatory, was prepared in 1770 or a few years later. A reproduction of the first page of the catalogue is given/the complete catalogue (319 entries), and a “Catalogue of Presents by Sundry Persons”(77 entries) being printed as an appendix to the paper.
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B., D. A Royal Collection of Scientific Instruments. Nature 118, 896 (1926). https://doi.org/10.1038/118896a0
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