The country people missed the little pond, which had seemed to them an eye of Nature reflecting heaven's blue light.

They begged for the removal of the surveyor's pile, and Mr.Airy at once changed the station.
"The established observatories of England do not step out of their beaten path to make discoveries--these come from the amateurs.

In this respect they differ from America and Germany.

The amateurs of England do a great deal of work, they learn to know of what they and their instruments are capable, and it is done.
"The library of Greenwich Observatory is large.

The transactions of learned societies alone fill a small room; the whole impression of the thirty volumes of printed observations fills a wall of another room, and the unpublished papers of the early directors make of themselves a small manuscript library.
"October 22, 1857.