Greenwich Observatory 1894: Oxford

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Tuesday, 20 January 2009

Friday 19 January, 1894

Went to Oxford in evening, returning Monday morning.

H.H. Turner, Chief Assistant

Rebekah Higgitt says.....

Another trip to Oxford for the new Savilian Professor of Astronomy.

Royal Observatory Greenwich - the 1894 Cosmic Diary

This blog is formed from the entries for 1894 in the Astronomer Royal's Journal and Chief Assistant's Journal from the archives of the Royal Observatory Greenwich. The writers are:

William Henry Mahony Christie (Astronomer Royal)

Herbert Hall Turner (Chief Assistant 1881-1894)

Frank Watson Dyson (Chief Assistant 1894-1905)

The manuscripts are now held in the Manuscripts Department of the University of Cambridge Library (ref: RGO 7/29-30) and are reproduced by kind permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library.

Greenwich Observatory 1894

Tuesday, 20 January 2009

Friday 19 January, 1894

Royal Observatory Greenwich - the 1894 Cosmic Diary

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