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An article by Bart J. Bok on the 'Siding Spring Observatory', regarding the opening of the observatory.

Scope and Contents Correspondence between members of the Working Party formed by R. Woolley to consider the design study for a 150-inch telescope. The correspondents include Woolley; Redman; S.C.B. Gascoigne, Royal Greenwich Observatory; B.J. Bok, Director, Mount Stromlo Observatory; and A. Hunter, Royal Greenwich Observatory. Bok sends copies of his reports on visits to the Lick, Mount Palomar and Kitt Peak Observatories, and to Sir Howard Grubb, Parsons and Co. Ltd. There is also a copy of a letter from...

Scope and Contents Redman's correspondence regarding the Southern Hemisphere Telescope Committee mission to Australia. The correspondents are B.J. Bok; J. Tuson and C. Jolliffe, Department of Scientific and Industrial Research; D.L. Crawford, Kitt Peak National Observatory; J.D. Pope; R. Woolley; and T.M. Cherry, President, Australian Academy of Science, Canberra. The correspondence refers to Redman's travel arrangements and to meetings with Kitt Peak National Observatory staff at Tucson, and with B.J. Bok in...

Scope and Contents Correspondence with Australian observatories and universities, including Professor Bart J. Bok of the Commonwealth Observatory, Canberra; A.R. Hogg of the Mount Stromlo Observatory; A. Przybylski of the Mount Wilson and Palomar Observatories; Professor S.C.B. Gascoigne of the Mount Stromlo Observatory; Professor O.J. Eggen of the Mount Stromlo Observatory; D.K.R. Hodgkin of the Australian National University; and J.N. Webb of Port Macquarie, N.S.W. There are also notes on the Commonwealth...

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A letter from Sir Richard Woolley to Professor B.J. Bok of the Mount Stromlo Observatory asking for second epoch plates to be taken of plates of NGC 6397 from Columbia University.

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A letter from Sir Richard Woolley to L. Woltjer thanking him for details of the NGC 6397 plates and stating that he has written to Professor B.J. Bok asking for the second epoch plates.

Scope and Contents Memorandum from H. Abraham to Professor B.J. Bok, Dr Hogg, Dr Gascoigne, Mr Thomas and the Time Service staff on Herstmonceux meridian observations, detailing transit circle observations, tapes and manually operated punch, Melbourne and Sydney observations of photographic zenith tube stars, the Mount Stromlo transit instrument and punched cards, the Moon camera, the photographic zenith tube measuring machine, the Kustner polygon of photographic zenith tube groups, photographic zenith tube...

Scope and Contents Miscellaneous correspondence with, among others, the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Australia; the British Horological Institute; Air Vice-Marshal Sir Geoffrey Bromet; the B.B.C.; Bedford College, London; Bart J. Bok; H.A. Brück of the Royal Observatory, Edinburgh; the British Astronomical Association; and Mrs E.M. Burbidge of the University of California, San Diego. The subjects include an interview by Sir Richard Woolley for the B.B.C.; a lecture to Bedford...