| Cover | | |
| About the JAHH | | Inside the Cover |
| Title Page | | |
| Papers | | |
| Don Hendrix, Master Mount Wilson and Palomar Observatories Optician | Donald E. Osterbrock | 1 |
| Airy’s Zenith Telescopes and “the Birth-star of Modern Astronomy” | Gilbert E. Satterthwaite | 13 |
| Porters, Watchmen, and the Crime of William Sayers: The Non-scientific Staff of the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, in Victorian Times | Allan Chapman | 27 |
| An Astronomer Calls: Extracts from the Diaries of Charles Piazzi Smyth | Mary T. Bruck | 37 |
| Was the Supernova of AD 1054 Reported in European history? | F. Richard Stephenson, & David A. Green | 46 |
| Examination of Early Chinese Records of Solar Eclipses | Ciyuan Liu, Xueshun Liu, & Liping Ma | 53 |
| IAU Reports | | |
| The C41/ICHA Transits of Venus Working Group. 2: Lord Lindsay’s Transit of Venus expedition to Mauritius 1874 | Mary T. Bruck | 64 |
| Book Reviews | | |
| Sky and Ocean Joined: The U.S. Naval Observatory 1830-2000, by Steven J. Dick | Wayne Orchiston | 65 |
| Starry Night: Astronomers and Poets Read the Sky, by David H. Levy | Clive Davenhall | 66 |
| Historical Supernovae and Their Remnants, by F. Richard Stephenson & David A. Green | Wayne Orchiston | 66 |
| 100 Years of Observational Astronomy and Astrophysics: Homage to Miklós Konkoly Thege, ed. by Christiaan Sterken & John B. Hearnshaw | Wayne Orchiston | 66 |
| Contents | | Back Cover |
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