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List of Illustrations

• Flamsteed, the first astronomer royal
• The new building
• General view of the observatory buildings from the new dome
• Flamsteed's sextant
• The royal observatory in Flamsteed's time
• The Camera Stellata in Flamsteed's time
• Edmund Halley
• Halley's Quadrant
• James Bradley
• Graham's Zenith Sector
• Nathaniel Bliss
• Nevil Maskelyne
• Hadley's Quadrant
• John Pond
• George Biddell Airy, Astronomer Royal
• The Astronomer Royal's Room
• The South-East Tower
• W. H. M. Christie, Astronomer Royal
• The Astronomer Royal's House
• The Courtyard
• Plan of Observatory at present time
• The Great Clock and Porter's Lodge
• The Chronograph
• The Time-desk
• Harrison's Chronometer
• The Chronometer Room
• The Chronometer Oven
• The Transit Pavillon
• Lost in the Birkenhead
• The Transit Circle
• The Mural Circle
• Airy's Altazimuth
• New Altazimuth building
• The New Altazimuth
• The New Observatory as seen from Flamsteed' Observatory
• The Self-registering Thermometers
• The Anemometer Room, North-west Turret
• The Anemometer Trace
• Magnetic Pavilion--Exterior
• Magnetic Pavilion--Interior
• The Dallmeyer Photo-heliograph
• Photograph of a group of Sun-spots
• The Great Nebula in Orion
• The Half-prism Spectroscope on the South-east equatorial
• The Workshop
• The 30-inch reflector with the New Spectroscope attached
• Chart Plate of the Pleiades
• The control pendulum and the base of the Thompson telescope
• The Astrographic telescope
• The driving clock of the astrographic telescope
• The Thompson telescope in the new dome
• The nebulae of the Pleiades
• Double-star observation with the South-east equatorial
• The South-east dome with the shutter open

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