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Excerpt from Second Armagh Catalogue of 3300 Stars for the Epoch 1875: Deduced From Observations Made at the Armagh Observatory During the Years 1859 to 1883 The Armagh Observatory was founded and endowed in 1791 by Richard Robinson, Lord Rokeby, Archbishop of Armagh, and established under an Act of the Irish Parliament (3lst George III. Cap. A pamphlet entitled An Historical Account of the Armagh Observatory, printed in 1883, gives full information of the endowments of the institution, and of the work done to the end of the year 1882. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.