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IN an account of the Observatory of Trinity College, Dublin, given in NATURE of March 16, 1871, there is a slight mistake in the date of the erection of the Transit Instrument, which is there assigned to 1808. It was erected many years before; for in the second volume of the Transactions of the Royal Irish Academy, Dr. Usher describes observations made with it in 1785.
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R., T. Dublin Observatory. Nature 3, 445–446 (1871). https://doi.org/10.1038/003445b0
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