Sir Robert Stawell Ball giving a children's Christmas Lecture at the Royal Institution, 1887. Sir Robert Stawell Ball (1840-1913) was an Irish astronomer and was Royal Astronomer of Ireland at Dunsink Observatory. He gave five Christmas Lectures at the Royal Institution, London.

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