Letter, 1781 August 22, Holme Lacey, Herefordshire, to D. Miller.
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Henry Russell, director of Sydney Observatory, sent out five parties to observe the transit of Venus in 1882. The party sent to Mount Lookout, Lord Howe Island, consisted of three members of the New South Wales Department of Lands, William Jacomb Conder, superintendent of trigonometrical surveys, Thomas Frederick Furber, draftsman-in-charge, and David Miller, clerk to Surveyor General, with Timothy Coghlan, draftsman of the Department of Public Works. Their expedition was unsuccessful because of...