Inauguration of the Ochtertyre Equatorially Mounted Refracting Telescope of nine inches aperture at the Observatory at the University of Glasgow

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Written by Robert Grant. Describes the "moderate" purchase of the telescope from the executors of Sir William Keith Murray of Ochtertyre. Contains a statement and report from the Committee of the Senate of the University of Glasgow appointed to consider the purchase, as well as a list of donors. Published by Glasgow University Press by George Richardson.

Former reference GUA 40520.

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Papers of Professor Robert Grant, 1814-1892, Regius Professor of Practical Astronomy, University of Glasgow, ScotlandUGC 037

Personal correspondenceUGC 037/1

PublicationsUGC 037/2

Memorial on Astronomical Observations in general with especial reference to the Observatory of the University of Glasgow, addressed to to the Commissioners appointed by Her Majesty to enquire into the condition of the Universities of ScotlandUGC 037/2/1

Inauguration of the Ochtertyre Equatorially Mounted Refracting Telescope of nine inches aperture at the Observatory at the University of GlasgowUGC 037/2/2

Report of the Professor of Astronomy in the University of GlasgowUGC 037/2/3

Report of the Professor of Astronomy in the University of GlasgowUGC 037/2/4

Report of the Professor of Astronomy of the University of GlasgowUGC 037/2/5

Syllabus of a course of four lectures on Astronomy by Robert Grant, LLD, FRS, viewed in connection with the establishment of the theory of gravitationUGC 037/2/6

Two letters on the question of the authenticity of the documents respecting Newton, which have been communicated by M Chasles to the Academy of Sciences of the French InstituteUGC 037/2/7

Syllabus of a course of seven lectures on the astronomy of comets by Robert Grant, MA, LLD, FRSUGC 037/2/8

The Astronomy of the Nineteenth CenturyUGC 037/2/9

Report of the Professor of Astronomy in the University of GlasgowUGC 037/2/10

Sir John Herschel An ElogeUGC 037/2/11

On Telescopic Observations of the phonomena seen in contiguity with the Moon's Limb During Eclipse of the Sun and the Results which have been therefrom deducedUGC 037/2/12

The Transit of Venus in 1874UGC 037/2/13

Letter on Time Signals Addressed to the Honorary James Bain, Lord Provost of the City of GlasgowUGC 037/2/14

Report of the Committee for the Measurement of the Lunar Disturbance of GravityUGC 037/2/15

The Proper Motions of the StarsUGC 037/2/16

The Proper Motions of the StarsUGC 037/2/17

Analysis of the results of meteorological observations made with a system of self-recording instruments at Glasgow University Observatory in the year 1886UGC 037/2/18

Analysis of the results of meteorological observations made with a system of self-recording instruments at Glasgow University Observatory in the year 1887UGC 037/2/19

Analysis of the results of meteorological observations made with a system of self-recording instruments at Glasgow University Observatory in the year 1888UGC 037/2/20

ObituariesUGC 037/3