Slide set: Ben Nevis and its observatory (lecture: G.W. Wilson, 16 slides, 1884-1890)
“A short reading describing the history of the erection and the work of this -- the Highest Observatory in Great Britain and Ireland -- concluding with a few views of Scenes on the Summit in Summer and Winter.”
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