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Twenty-six letters, chiefly sent by Fallows at Cape Town, reporting on the establishment of the Cape Observatory and on his activities there. The series also includes a catalogue of fixed stars, an auxiliary table, and two copies of observations for the summer solstice of 1823.

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A list of publications issued by the Royal Greenwich Observatory and the Cape Observatory, with related correspondence.

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An undated list of Royal Greenwich Observatory and Cape Observatory publications for the years 1676 to 1938.

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'Cape Astrographic Zones...Catalogue of Rectangular Co-ordinates and Diameters of Star-Images derived from Photographs taken at the Royal Observatory, Cape of Good Hope. Commenced under the direction of Sir David Gill...completed and prepared for Press under the Supervision of S.S. Hough', published by H.M.S.O., London and Edinburgh.

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The results of meridian observations made at the Royal Observatory, Cape of Good Hope, published by H.M.S.O., London or Edinburgh.

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'Cape Mimeograms' published by the Royal Observatory, Cape of Good Hope.

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An incomplete series of the 'Annals of the Cape Observatory'.

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Catalogues of observations made at the Royal Observatory, Cape of Good Hope.

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Reports, printed works and records of publications relating to the Royal Observatory, Cape of Good Hope.

Scope and Contents Minutes of Board of Longitude meetings regarding, among other matters, tables devised by José Mendoza de Ríos; correspondence with John Crosley (the astronomer with the expedition to New South Wales); a claim for a reward for Charles Mason's work on lunar tables; a report on the Arnold and Earnshaw chronometers going on the voyage of Captain Matthew Flinders; grants and awards to chronometer-makers; the observations of Nathaniel Bliss when he was Astronomer Royal; models of watch escapements...

Scope and Contents Minutes of Board of Longitude meetings regarding, among other matters, experiments to discover the longitude of Falmouth; instruments required by Fearon Fallows at the Cape of Good Hope; Sir Humphrey Davy's suggestion of publishing a catalogue of double stars by John Herschel and Sir James South; Johann Tiarks's trip to Heligoland to discover the longitude of the island and its relative position to both the coast of Germany and Greenwich; the purchase of a 14-foot reflecting telescope for...

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Sent to John Wilson Croker from Robert Seppings, G. Legge and R.G. Middleton of the Navy Office.

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Forwarding a letter from Fearon Fallows at Cape Town to the Board of Longitude.

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Concerning his first catalogue of the principle fixed stars and remarks upon it.

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Twenty-seven letters, a note and a petition, mainly sent from John Barrow to Dr Thomas Young. The letters concern the initial establishment of the Cape Observatory, the appointment of an astronomer, assistant and labourer there, the provision and transport of instruments to the Cape, and payments of bills for these.

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Twenty-six letters, chiefly sent by Fallows at Cape Town, reporting on the establishment of the Cape Observatory and on his activities there. The series also includes a catalogue of fixed stars, an auxiliary table, and two copies of observations for the summer solstice of 1823.

Scope and Contents Correspondence concerning astrographic equatorials for the Greenwich and Cape observatories:Official and unofficial correspondence with the Admiralty concerning the photographic mapping of the heavens, the transfer of the telegraphic wires to the Post Office, and the extra expense of re-determining the longitude between Paris and Greenwich telegraphically, 1887.Official and unofficial correspondence with the Hydrographer of the Navy, A. Milner and Sir Howard Grubb concerning...

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Correspondence between the Secretary of the Royal Greenwich Observatory and the Cashier at the Royal Observatory, Cape of Good Hope, regarding financial matters.

Scope and Contents Correspondence regarding instruments at the Royal Observatory, Cape of Good Hope, including the following material:Correspondence between R. Atkinson and J. Jackson regarding an 18-inch lens, 1949.Correspondence between R.H. Stoy and Sir Harold Spencer Jones regarding the pallet stones of the Riefler Astronomical Clock, 1949.Correspondence with Lady Hart Dyke of the Lullingstone silk farm regarding English raw silk cocoons for use as spiderwebs in telescopes and other...

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Correspondence regarding the instruments of the Cape Observatory, covering the collimator lens, the 40-inch telescope, the regraduation of the movable circle of the Cape reversible transit circle, the Cape 18-inch reflector, and the recording microphotometer and silkworm threads for the telescope and microphotometer eye pieces.

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Correspondence regarding instruments at the Cape Observatory, including letters concerning a lens for the collimator of the reversible transit circle, the 40-inch reflector and the astrophotographic lens.

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Correspondence regarding the instruments of the Royal Observatory, Cape of Good Hope, including a report on a visit to the Paris Observatory to discuss problems concerning the astrolabe, 15-19 July 1963, and correspondence regarding the 40-inch reflecting telescope.

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Three letters regarding the distribution of publications of the Royal Observatory, Cape of Good Hope.

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Correspondence concerning staff matters and appointments at the Royal Observatory, Cape of Good Hope, including the retirement of Dr J. Jackson in 1950.

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Correspondence regarding appointments, promotions and other staffing matters at the Royal Observatory, Cape of Good Hope.