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The Adelaide Observatory after Todd

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 April 2016

P. G. Edwards
P. G. Edwards*
Affiliation:
Department of Physics and Mathematical Physics, University of Adelaide, Adelaide S.A., 5005
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Abstract

Charles Todd, who established the Adelaide Observatory on West Terrace in 1860, retired as Government Astronomer at the end of 1906. In 1908 the meteorological duties of the Observatory were taken over by the Commonwealth, and the Observatory lost most of its staff. Following the promotion of George Dodwell to the position of Government Astronomer in 1909, the Observatory was slowly re-established and undertook a range of astronomical and other work, which is described in detail in this paper. The Observatory was transferred to the University of Adelaide in 1940 and this is often taken as the closure of the Observatory. Dodwell finished working as Government Astronomer in 1952.

Type
History of Australian Astronomy
Information
Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia , Volume 11 , Issue 2 , August 1994 , pp. 206 - 210
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of Australia 1994

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