for the appointment

of

Mrs Eliza de Salles,

his housekeeper, to

be second assistant

in

The Government

Observatory.

I

concur

with

that the appoint-

ment of

Mrs de Salles

to be Second Assistant

is

inadmissible.

With regard

to Doberek's

qualifications

for the

post which he holds

I should explain

that he

was selected by

the Astronomer Royal

and

the Resident

on the advice

of the Secretary of

the Royal

Society as being in their judgment

the ablest

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