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Correspondence with the Admiralty; H.M. Dockyard, Chatham; the Hydrographer of the Navy; and others concerning general plans and costs with regard to the Royal Greenwich Observatory.

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Correspondence with Admiralty House and the S.E. England Navy Works District, Chatham; H.M. Dockyard, Chatham; the Hydrographer of the Navy; and others, with memoranda and other papers, concerning general plans and costs with regard to the Royal Greenwich Observatory.

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Correspondence with the Civil Engineer-in-Chief, Admiralty; H.M. Dockyard, Chatham; Hydrographer of the Navy; and the Ministry of Works concerning general plans and costs with regard to the Royal Greenwich Observatory.

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Correspondence concerning the trial and purchase of hack watches, 1905-1911 and 1912-1916, including correspondence with the chronometer manufacturers and the Hydrographer of the Navy and notes and memoranda concerning the trial and individual watches.

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Correspondence with H.M. Dockyard, Chatham, and others, with memoranda and related papers, regarding Herstmonceux Castle. Much of the correspondence is with the Superintendent of the S.E. England Navy Works District, Chatham.

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Two copies of a letter from the Superintendent, Navy Works, Ministry of Public Building and Works, Chatham, to the Astronomer Royal, 20 March 1963, regarding the control of lighting in the Castle Ballroom at Herstmonceux, and a letter from the Astronomer Royal to the Superintendent, 10 June 1963, with the Superintendent's reply, 17 July 1963, regarding Cash Office security at the Royal Greenwich Observatory.

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Correspondence with the Superintendent, Navy Works, Ministry of Public Building and Works, Chatham, and others, with memoranda and other papers, regarding Herstmonceux Castle.

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Correspondence with the Admiralty; H.M. Dockyard, Chatham; and the Hydrographer of the Navy regarding general plans and costs relating to Herstmonceux.

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General correspondence regarding Navy estimates for the Royal Greenwich Observatory, covering items to be included in the estimates, expenditure on grounds and notes to heads of departments on items allowed for.

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Correspondence with the Admiralty and the Hydrographer of the Royal Navy regarding the removal of the Chronometer and Watch Repair Department from Greenwich.

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A letter from the Hydrographer of the Navy to the Astronomer Royal, 6 July 1955, and a reply from the Astronomer Royal, 13 July 1955, regarding compensation by the British Electricity Authority for possible damage to instruments at Greenwich.

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Correspondence with the Admiralty; H.M. Dockyard, Chatham; and the Hydrographer of the Navy regarding the Engineering Workshop at the Royal Greenwich Observatory.

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Correspondence with the Superintendent of the S.E. England Navy Works District, Chatham, and others, with memoranda and other papers, regarding the Engineering Workshop at the Royal Greenwich Observatory.

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Correspondence with H.M. Dockyard, Chatham; the Superintendent of Navy Works, the S.E. England Navy Works District, Chatham; and others, with memoranda and other papers, regarding the Engineering Workshop at the Royal Greenwich Observatory.

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Correspondence with the Admiralty; H.M. Dockyard, Chatham; the Hydrographer of the Navy; and others, with additional papers, regarding the Equatorial Group.

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Correspondence with the Admiralty; H.M. Dockyard, Chatham; and the Hydrographer of the Navy regarding the Equatorial Group.

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Correspondence with the Admiralty; H.M. Dockyard, Chatham; and the Hydrographer of the Navy, with memoranda and others papers, regarding the Equatorial Group.

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Correspondence with H.M. Dockyard, Chatham; the Hydrographer of the Navy; Navy Works Department, Admiralty; the Superintendent of the S.E. England Navy Works District, Chatham; and others, with related papers, regarding the Equatorial Group. The papers include a copy of a drawing of the installation of the coude spectrograph, showing structural modifications to Dome A.

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Correspondence with the Superintendent, Navy Works, Ministry of Public Building and Works, Chatham, and others, with memoranda and other papers, regarding the Equatorial Group.

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Correspondence with H.M. Dockyard, Chatham; the Hydrographer of the Navy; the Royal Naval Hospital, Haslar; the Superintendent of the S.E. England Navy Works District, Chatham; and others regarding the Factory Acts, including letters regarding the disposal of radioactive waste from the Chronometer Department used on luminous watch dials and hands.

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Correspondence with the Admiralty; Hydrographer of the Navy; H.M. Dockyard, Chatham; Ministry of Labour; Superintendent of Navy Works, S.E. England Navy Works District, Chatham; and others regarding the Factory Acts, including letters concerning the radiation hazard with regard to the luminous watch dials and hands repaired in the Chronometer Department.

Scope and Contents Correspondence regarding the Herstmonceux Conference of 1965, including the following items:Correspondence with the Royal Society.Correspondence with H.J. Helms, Head of the N.A.T.O. Pure Science Bureau.Correspondence with the Hydrographer of the Navy.Details of the International Summer Course on Observational Aspects of Galactic Structure held at Athens on 9-23 September 1964.Correspondence with M. Schmidt of the California Institute of Technology,...

Scope and Contents Correspondence regarding the Isaac Newton Telescope Board of Management for 1962 onwards with, among others, W.H. McCrea of the Department of Mathematics, Royal Holloway College, London; the Royal Society; the Director General, Naval Works; the Department of Astronomy, University of Glasgow; the Department of Physics, Imperial College, London; H.A. Brück of the Royal Observatory, Edinburgh; R.W. Ditchburn of the Department of Physics, University of Reading; D.E. Blackwell of the University...

Scope and Contents Correspondence regarding the Technical Sub-committee of the Isaac Newton Telescope Board of Management with, among others, R.O. Redman of The Observatories, Cambridge; Sir Howard Grubb, Parsons and Co. Ltd; Newcastle-upon-Tyne; the Navy Works Department; D.E. Blackwell of the University Observatory, Oxford; the Royal Society; the Hydrographic Department of the Navy; the Ministry of Public Building and Works; and the Ministry of Defence. There are also minutes of the second meeting of the...

Scope and Contents Official correspondence regarding the Isaac Newton Telescope dome and building, including correspondence with the Hydrographic Department of the Navy; R.O. Redman of The Observatories, Cambridge; Sir Howard Grubb, Parsons and Co. Ltd, Newcastle-upon-Tyne; the Navy Works Department; A. Conder of the Observatoire de Paris; Barnes Wallis of Vickers-Armstrongs (Aircraft) Ltd; Sir William Hodge of the Royal Society; J.D. Pope of the Royal Greenwich Observatory; and Head Wrightson and Co. Ltd....