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M. JANSSEN's appointment as the head of a new French Physical Observatory, which we intimated some time ago, has been gazetted. The French Government, we believe, wishes to give M. Janssen the choice of having the Observatory built at Fontenay, as was originally decided upon, or at Vincennes, which is at a less distance from Paris.

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Notes . Nature 12, 446–447 (1875). https://doi.org/10.1038/012446a0

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