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Correspondence, memoranda and circulars relating to the appointment, transfer to and promotion of staff working at the Royal Observatory, Cape of Good Hope. There is also material relating to allowances for passage to the Cape and assessments of work being carried out there by individuals.

Scope and Contents Correspondence with Professor Safford, 1894, concerning errors in the 1860 Star Catalogue: north polar distance of 16 Persei.Letter from G. Dunn concerning 73 Leonis being a variable, 1894.Letter from S. Newcomb, 1894, concerning the north polar distance of standard stars during 1891-1893, with a reply including the Greenwich observations for 1891.Correspondence with Major Gore, R.E., concerning the place of double stars, 1894-1895.Letter from Professor...

Scope and Contents (1) Correspondence and papers regarding the Royal Observatory, Cape of Good Hope, 1963-1966, including the change from the Admiralty to the Science and Education Research Council, the position of the work of the Cape Observatory, changes of personnel, the inauguration of the 40-inch telescope, travel between United Kingdom and the Cape, accounting matters and transfers of accounting duties from the Admiralty, and staffing at the Cape.(2) Correspondence regarding the Cape Observatory,...

Scope and Contents Agenda and minutes of meetings of the Joint European Southern Observatory Committee and Sub-committees, with correspondence, including the following items:Correspondence with Sir A. Todd regarding a Commonwealth observatory, 1960.Memorandum on the Astronomer Royal's views on the needs of British astronomy, 1960.Correspondence with Sir M. Oliphant, Sir W. Hodge and Sir Solly Zuckerman concerning a Commonwealth observatory and the Joint European Southern Observatory,...

Scope and Contents Correspondence and papers regarding the International Astronomical Union's Solar Parallax Sub-commission, including the following items:Correspondence concerning the sale of a 8-inch Cooke Refractor to the Astronomical Society of South Africa, 1948.Correspondence concerning the correction of longitude of Allegheny Observatory, United States, 1940.Correspondence concerning missing plates of the Eros observations from Lembang, Java, 1940.Correspondence with...

Scope and Contents Papers regarding visitations by the Board of Visitors to the Royal Greenwich Observatory, including correspondence on the visit of Richard Woolley and a sub-committee of the Board of Visitors to the Cape Observatory in April 1963; a report on the 1962 inspection of the R.G.O.; lists of the R.G.O. Bulletins published in 1959-1961; minutes of the proceedings of the Board of Visitors held at Herstmonceux Castle, 11 June 1960; and a copy of the 'Warrant for the Board of Visitors of the Royal...

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Sent by Francis Beaufort to John Pond.

Scope and Contents Miscellaneous publications, including the following items:Reprint of a 'Nature' article by Sir Richard Woolley on 'Rotation of the Globular Cluster Omega Centauri'.Copy of the Halley Lecture for 1961 on 'Globular Clusters', delivered by Woolley at Oxford.Presidential address by Woolley from the 'Quarterly Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society'.Editorial summary of 'Masses, Radii and Luminosities of RR Lyrae Variables Stars' by Woolley, taken from the...

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Sent to Captain Kater.

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A published report on in-house research carried out during 1 January 1992 to 31 December 1993 at the observatories under the Directorship of Alec Boksenberg: the Royal Greenwich Observatory; the Royal Observatory, Edinburgh; the Isaac Newton Group; and the Joint Astronomy Centre.

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A copy of the report on the Royal Observatory, Cape of Good Hope, for the year ending 31 December 1971.

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The printed report of the proceedings of the Royal Greenwich Observatory and Royal Observatory, Cape of Good Hope, for the year ending 31 December 1960, from the 'Quarterly Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society', Vol. 2, No. 3, 1961, pp. 162-170.

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A photocopy of report of the proceedings of the Royal Greenwich Observatory and Royal Observatory, Cape of Good Hope, for the year ending 31 March 1962, from the 'Quarterly Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society', Vol. 3, No. 4, 1962, pp. 299-309.

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A photocopy of the report of the proceedings of the Royal Greenwich Observatory and Royal Observatory, Cape of Good Hope, for the year ending 31 March 1963, from the 'Quarterly Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society', Vol. 4, No. 4, 1963, pp. 406-415.

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The printed report of the proceedings of the Royal Greenwich Observatory and Royal Observatory, Cape of Good Hope, for the year ending 31 March 1964, from the 'Quarterly Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society', Vol. 5, No. 4, 1964, pp. 370-378.

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The printed report of the proceedings of the Royal Greenwich Observatory and Royal Observatory, Cape of Good Hope, for the year ending 31 March 1965, from the 'Quarterly Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society', Vol. 7, No. 3, 1967, pp. 217-231.

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The printed report of the proceedings of the Royal Greenwich Observatory and Royal Observatory, Cape of Good Hope, for the 15 months ending 30 March 1966, from the 'Quarterly Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society', Vol. 7, No. 4, 1967, pp. 283-301.

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The printed report of the proceedings of the Royal Greenwich Observatory and Royal Observatory, Cape of Good Hope, for the 18 months ending 31 December 1967, from the 'Quarterly Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society', Vol. 9, No. 2, 1968, pp. 164-187. Two copies.

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The printed report of the proceedings of the Royal Greenwich Observatory and Royal Observatory, Cape of Good Hope, for the 18 months ending 31 December 1968, from the 'Quarterly Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society', Vol. 10, No. 2, 1969, pp. 114-133.

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The printed report of the proceedings of the Royal Greenwich Observatory and Royal Observatory, Cape of Good Hope, for the year ending 31 December 1969, from the 'Quarterly Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society', Vol. 11, No. 3, 1970, pp. 236-254.

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The printed report of the Royal Greenwich Observatory and Royal Observatory, Cape of Good Hope for the year ending 31 December 1970, from the 'Quarterly Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society', Vol. 12, No. 3, 1971, pp. 277-294.

Scope and Contents Correspondence with the Superintendent of Portsmouth Observatory concerning the removal and possibly repair of obsolete instruments, 1883-1884.List of transit of Venus instruments at the Royal Observatory, 20 November 1883.List of transit of Venus instruments at the Cape of Good Hope, 14 March 1884.List of transit of Venus instruments belonging to the Royal Observatory, 1 April 1886.List of instruments belonging to the Royal Observatory held in store, 31...

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Reports of the Astronomer Royal to the Board of Visitors of the Royal Greenwich Observatory for 1 June 1957, 7 June 1958 and 11 June 1960. There is also a brief history of the Royal Greenwich Observatory and a list of staff at the Royal Observatory, Cape of Good Hope, as at 31 January 1966.

Scope and Contents RGO 50 is the product of a solar observation programme begun in 1873 at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich and continued, from 1953 to 1979, at Royal Greenwich Observatory, Herstmonceux. It primarily consists of a sequence of glass plate negatives of daily observations. Where no plate was produced at Greenwich or Herstmonceux the gap has been filled by sourcing plates from observatories elsewhere around the world, particularly the Indian observatories at Kodaikanal and Dehra Dūn. Observation...

Scope and Contents The 1873-1917 prints in this class were made from glass plate negatives which are no longer extant. The plates were the product of a solar observation programme begun in 1873 at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich but are thought to have been destroyed in the First World War. The sequence of images is a continuation of RGO 67: Kew Observatory solar photographs (1858-72) and is itself continued by RGO 50: Royal Observatory Greenwich and Royal Greenwich Observatory, Herstmonceux Solar Plates...