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IN the introduction to the first work mentioned below, an opinion is expressed that the revision of an old catalogue must always be a source of anxiety to those who advise and undertake the revision, and that only the final result can justify the expenditure of the time and labour. Those who are responsible, for this work need be under no apprehension that their efforts have been misspent. It would rather seem that in this case they have fulfilled a necessary duty, and discharged an honoured trust. It has always seemed to the writer that the ancient authorities at Greenwich were a little wanting in patriotism and enterprise in entrusting to a foreigner, however eminent, the reduction and discussion of Bradley's observations. Groombridge's observations, in a sense, may not be so completely a national possession as those of Bradley, but certainly it is not unfitting that at the Royal Observatory, almost within the shadow of which Groombridge erected his transit circle, his observations should be examined and discussed.
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P., W. Greenwich Observations 1 . Nature 74, 90–91 (1906). https://doi.org/10.1038/074090a0
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