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peared, and the instrument was put out of
use until 1903, when the present Astronomer
Royal noticed that the irregularities could
be allowed for, being due to that remarkable
variation in the position of the earth’s axis
included in circles of about six yards diame-
ter at the north and south poles, discovered
at the end of the nineteenth century. The
instrument is now being used for investigat-
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