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 Farey, Mr. Thomson, of Clitheroe, &c. In 1809, when the Glasgow Observatory was about to be established, Dr. Ure came to London, commissioned to make the scientific arrangements. Here he met, and acquired the friendship of, Maskelyne, Pond, Groombridge, and other Astronomers, and also of Davy, Wollaston, Henry, and other distinguished chemists of that day. He was introduced to Troughton by Colonel, now Sir T. Brisbane, the President of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.