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IT has already been noted that the editors of the Berliner Jahrbuch have decided only to issue ephemerides for certain of the minor planets (NATURE, vol. xliii. p. III). The Bureau des Longitudes has endeavoured to remedy the inconvenience that arises from this decision by an extension of one of its departments. The general discussion that led the Bureau to adopt this course, and the importance of observations of these comparatively small bodies, are well expounded by M. F. Tisserand in the Annuaire for 1891.
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GREGORY, R. The Question of the Asteroids. Nature 43, 587–589 (1891). https://doi.org/10.1038/043587a0
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