extrameridional

After a brief statement of the existing equipment of the Observatory in respect of equatoreal instruments, the Address continues thus: “It is known to the Visitors that I have uniformly objected to any luxury of extrameridional apparatus, which would materially divert us from a steady adherence to the meridional system which both reason and tradition have engrafted on this Observatory.

Autobiography Airy, George Biddell, Sir 1896