Duba wurin da ke ƙasa sannan ka amsa tambayar daga baya a cikin harshe ɗaya kamar yadda wurin yake:  Passage: An ba da shawara ga Royal Society a 1772 ta hanyar Nevil Maskelyne, Masanin Astronomer Royal cewa ya kamata a sake yin ƙoƙari a kan gwaji. Ya ba da shawarar cewa gwajin zai "yi girmamawa ga al'ummar da aka yi shi" kuma ya ba da shawarar Whernside a Yorkshire, ko Blencathra-Skiddaw massif a Cumberland a matsayin manufofin da suka dace. Ƙungiyar Royal ta kafa Kwamitin Ƙaddamarwa don la'akari da batun, ta nada Maskelyne, Joseph Banks da Benjamin Franklin daga cikin mambobinta. Kwamitin ya aika da masanin taurari da mai binciken Charles Mason don neman dutsen da ya dace. Bayan dogon bincike a lokacin rani na 1773, Mason ya ba da rahoton cewa mafi kyawun ɗan takara shi ne Schiehallion (sa'an nan kuma an rubuta shi Schehallien), wani tsauni na 1,083 m (3,553 ft) wanda ke tsakanin Loch Tay da Loch Rannoch a tsakiyar Highlands na Scotland. Dutsen ya tsaya a ware daga kowane tuddai na kusa, wanda zai rage tasirin tasirin su, kuma simintin gabas-yamma na gabas zai sauƙaƙe lissafi. Gwaninta na arewa da kudu zai ba da damar gwajin ya kasance kusa da cibiyarsa ta taro, yana ƙara yawan tasirin karkatarwa. Ba zato ba tsammani, taron yana kusan daidai a tsakiyar latitudinal da longitudinal na Scotland. Mason duk da haka ya ƙi gudanar da aikin da kansa don tayin kwamiti na guinea ɗaya a kowace rana. Saboda haka aikin ya sauko ga Maskelyne, wanda aka ba shi izini na wucin gadi daga aikinsa a matsayin Masanin Harkokin Astronomer Royal. Masanin lissafi kuma mai binciken Charles Hutton da kuma Reuben Burrow, masanin lissafi na Royal Greenwich Observatory, sun taimaka masa a aikin. An yi amfani da ma'aikata na ma'aikata don gina gine-gine ga masu nazarin sararin samaniya, da kuma taimakawa wajen binciken. Kungiyar kimiyya ta kasance da kayan aiki sosai: kayan aikinta na taurari sun hada da 12 a (30 cm) tagulla na tagulla daga wucewar Cook na 1769 na tafiyar Venus, da 10 ft (3.0 m) zenith sector, da kuma mai tsarawa (wani agogon pendulum na daidaici) don tsara lokutan binciken sararin samaniya. Sun kuma sami theodolite da sarkar Gunter don binciken...  Tambaya: Wane kwamitin ne Royal Society ya kafa wanda ya haɗa da irin waɗannan mutane masu muhimmanci na tarihi kamar Joseph Banks da Benjamin Franklin?
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