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I invariably carried a favorite "Dolland" across my shoulder, and Buctoo was provided with a similar instrument, of which he was very proud, and in the use of which he became very expert.
Forest & Frontiers 1867
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In the transit-room is an eight-feet transit-instrument, with an axis of three feet, resting on two piers of stone: this was made by Bird, but has been much improved by Dolland, Troughton, and others.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 404, December 12, 1829 Various
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"O, that is Dolland, Venner, and that set; and I guess they'll have 'a high old time, 'and no mistake."
Adrift in the Ice-Fields Charles W. Hall
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The upper story was fitted up with meteorological and magnetic instruments, with a seismograph, a Dolland telescope, a small transit and pendulum clock, and the observatory was given in charge of Mgr. Gilii.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 15: Tournely-Zwirner 1840-1916 1913
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London, an Altitude and Azimuth Telescope, also by Simms, a Telescope for observations on the earth and sky, Dolland of London, an Astronomical clock, with a Mercurial Pendulum, by Molineux.
History of the University of North Carolina. Volume I: From its Beginning to the Death of President Swain, 1789-1868 Kemp Plummer 1907
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The making of achromatic lenses for telescopes had been accomplished, it is true, by Dolland in the previous century, by the union of lenses of crown glass with those of flint glass, these two materials having different indices of refraction and dispersion.
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He now recognised it; he remembered having once fixed a glass in this very watch for Dolland, about a month before the latter's disappearance.
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By an observation of Jupiter's satellites, with a Dolland reflecting telescope, Captain Bonneville ascertained the longitude to be 102 57 'west of Greenwich.
The Adventures of Captain Bonneville Irving, Washington, 1783-1859 1850
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Dolland, [767] Thomas Simpson, [768] Saunderson, [769] Crossley, [770] and others of known name, were certainly members.
A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I (of II) Augustus De Morgan 1838
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By an observation of Jupiter's satellites, with a Dolland reflecting telescope, Captain
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