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The British Astronomical Association may be the oldest astronomical society that continues to publish observations of the Moon. I have odd items from some of the variously named lunar publications of the past: the <em>4th Report of the Section</em> from 1899 and a few scattered copies of <em>The Moon</em> from the 1960s; In fact, a few of my observations were published there. Because of this long and wonderful history I was very pleased to read in the current <em>[http://www.baalunarsection.org.uk/2010-11-lsc.pdf Lunar Section Circular]</em>, Bill Leatherbarrow's report that the Section is making an effort to collect and digitize past and current observations as a way to preserve them. I heartily support this project and encourage anyone with historic drawings to send scanned copies to Bill. I also hope that this digitized history will be shared online, just as the recent issues of <em>Circular</em> are. Preservation without easy access is of little use. I am reminded that a complete set of microfilms of the <em>Selenographical Journal</em> from the 1870s exists, but they were not easily available and thus that valuable record of an early period of British selenology was unknowable by any but a select few. But once the <em>Journal</em> issues appeared [http://books.google.com/books?id=aasRAAAAYAAJ&amp;printsec=frontcover&amp;dq=Journal+of+the+Selenographical+Society&amp;source=bl&amp;ots=UhdqyVE9Ur&amp;sig=bpqrknNlr2voPmC6yULoIsfr0uA&amp;hl=en&amp;ei=ShbSTNyBPIW0lQedxOiFDg&amp;sa=X&amp;oi=book_result&amp;ct=result&amp;resnum=1&amp;ved=0CBUQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&amp;q&amp;f=false online] they were and are immediately available for anyone to savor and study. Bill mentioned that the Section has very little of the work of Walter Goodacre, a long-time Director. I know where part of his files are - at the Lunar and Planetary Institute in Houston. Thirteen years ago I [http://www.lpod.org/archive/archive/2004/04/LPOD-2004-04-19.htm discovered] them in LPI's special collections and photocopied some pages. The prize is a [http://www.lpod.org/cwm/Timeline/1800s/1897-Goodacre.html notebook] labeled, <em>The Moon - Observations, Notes and Sketches. November 1897-8- to</em>. The latest listed observation is from about 1904 so this documents Goodacre's early years. I did not see other volumes of his work through the 1920 and 30s, but there were letters from and to T.L. MacDonald, who followed Goodacre as Director. I would love to see this collection be placed online, as well as all the other early to [http://www.baalunarsection.org.uk/history.htm#goodacre more recent] BAA lunar reports - what a collection that would be!<br /><br />
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<em>[mailto:tychocrater@yahoo.com Chuck Wood]</em><br /><br />
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Rükl plate [https://the-moon.us/wiki/R%C3%BCkl_3 3]<br /><br />
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<p><b>Yesterday's LPOD:</b> [[April 16, 2020|A Basinful of Features]] </p><br />
<p><b>Tomorrow's LPOD:</b> [[April 18, 2020|Is It or Isn't It?]] </p><br />
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