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ABOUT UT two years ago Rear-Admiral Mouchez, director of the Paris Observatory, resolved to bring together for exhibition the instruments scattered in various parts, and by joining to that collection the portraits of great astronomers and methodically grouping all the documents relating to the history of astronomy which could be procured by bequest or otherwise, to lay the basis of a special museum' of very great interest. This proposal, having received the approval of the Minister of Public Instruction, is now being realised. One of the large rooms on the first floor of the Observatory has already been fitted up and occupied, and through the kindness of Admiral Mouchez, who himself did us the honour of giving full details of his new collection, we are able to publish the description.
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The Paris Observatory 1 . Nature 23, 533–535 (1881). https://doi.org/10.1038/023533a0
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