Capitolo 3
as a harvest of notes for his/her Biography. Its private history is
datum very fully for the first part of his/her life, but it is very slightly
touched above during his/her residence in Greenwich. A great part of the
Autobiography is in a state rather broken up, and it seems to have
is formed from extracted by a number of different sources, as
Official diaries, Official Correspondence and Reports. In to compile
the autobiography that you/he/she has been thought advisable to omit a great number
of short notes related to the routine you work of the observatory, to
technical and scientific correspondence, to Papers communicated to
the various Societies and business of officer connected with them, and to
the miscellaneous matters of the smaller importance. These in the aggravation
occupied a lot of time and attention. But, from them detached
nature, they would have but the small general interest. To the various places
short Monographs and the other matter you/he/she will be found by the Editor.
(2) all of its Annual Reports to the Board of Visitors are tied up
his/her Autobiography and it was understood of evidently to be read with him and
to form part of him. These Reports are so attentively compiled and I are this way
plentiful that they forms a very complete history in the Greenwich
Observatory and of the job continued there during the time that him
it was Astronomer Royal. The first Report only contained four pages, but
with the continually amount in increase and series of job the Reports
increased in volume up to continually the later Reports it contained 21
pages. Extracted by these Reports related to the matters of novelty and
importance, and illustrating the principles that drove him/it in his
behavior of the observatory, has been incorporated with the
Autobiography.
(3) the "printed Papers of G.B. Airy" it is tied up in 14 great quarters
volumes. There are 518 of these Papers, on a great variety of
subjects: a list of them is suspended to this history, as it is also a