George Biddell Airy, who served as Astronomer Royal at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, organized five separate expeditions to observe the 1874 transit of Venus.
Notes on verification
Multiple independent primary and secondary sources corroborate this fact, including Airy's official 1881 government publication, contemporary Nature journal articles from 1882, Royal Observatory Greenwich archives, and academic sources. The specific details about five expeditions and their locations are consistently documented across sources.
Sources
- 1874 Transit of Venus Expedition to Hawaii (wikipedia)