Royal Observatory, Greenwich,
August, 1900.

THE NEW BUILDING.
(From a photograph by Mr. Lacey.)

CONTENTS

CHAPTERPAGE
I.Introduction[13]
II.Flamsteed[25]
III.Halley and his Successors[60]
IV.Airy[102]
V.The Observatory Buildings[124]
VI.The Time Department[146]
VII.The Transit and Circle Departments[181]
VIII.The Altazimuth Department[205]
IX.The Magnetic and Meteorological Departments[228]
X.The Heliographic Department[251]
XI.The Spectroscopic Department[266]
XII.The Astrographic Department[284]
XIII.The Double-Star Department[303]
Index[317]