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in 1881. Besides a larger altazimuth that
                                         he erected in 1898, he has widened the field
                                         of operations at Greenwich by the exten-
                                         sive use of photography and the establish-
                                         ment of large equatoreals. From the point
                                         of view of instruments of precision, one of
                                         the most important new features is the as-
                                         trographic equatoreal, set up in 1892 and
                                         used for the Greenwich section of the great
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