Scope and Contents Personal correspondence of Sir Richard Woolley regarding lectures, dinners, membership of various institutions, newspaper interviews, book reviews and other subjects. There is correspondence with tradesmen, insurance companies and hotels; with various societies, universities, schools, observatories and other institutions; and with individuals. The correspondents include S.D. Pickelman, Crimean Astrophysical Observatory; the Royal Society of Arts; the Royal Society of Health; Russian...

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Letter, plan and drawing.

Scope and Contents The Royal Society established a committee in 1814 to enquire "into the situation and state of the reservoir of gas belonging to the Gas Light Company". Included amongst the papers is a letter concerning an explosion at the Royal Powder Mills in Faversham, Kent on 20 February 1793 [RGO/14: 173]; correspondence relating to an explosion at a timber seasoning yard in Woolwich on 30 December 1812 and the resultant casualties and damage, including reports on the possible causes of the accident...

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Set of documents relating to the Royal Observatory, wrapped in paper marked 'King's warrant of appointment to the Royal Observatory, appointment of visitors and sundry other papers relative to the Royal Observatory'.

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Papers relating to transactions with the British Association. The papers include notices of meetings in Exeter, Liverpool, Edinburgh, Brighton and Bradford; a copy of the recommendations adopted by the General Committee at the Liverpool meeting; minutes of the Royal Society Council meetings and reports of the Kew Committee; a printed report of the Committee on Science Lectures and Organization; and a circular on state aid to science.

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Papers relating to transactions with the Royal Society, including correspondence with its members. The material includes reports on several papers; a copy of the list of candidates for election into the Royal Society, 1848; papers from the 'Journal of the Belles Lettres'; a copy of Chapter I of the Amended Statutes of the Royal Society; and a printed booklet titled 'A Letter addressed to the Earl of Rosse, President-Elect of the Royal Society, by Marshall Hall'.

Scope and Contents Papers relating to transactions with the Royal Society, including correspondence with its members. The material includes announcements for meetings; minutes and financial reports; grants of government money; a piece by Airy on the phase of the Moon deduced from wind direction; and papers concerning candidates for entry into the Royal Society. The correspondents include T. Bell, E. Sabine, J. Glaisher, E.J. Cooper, C. Brooke, Lord Rosse, W.H. Smyth, S.H. Christie, C. Wheatstone and W.H....

Scope and Contents Papers relating to transactions with the Royal Society, including correspondence with its members. The material includes announcements for meetings; papers on the distribution of government grants; a paper by Airy on the 'eclipses' of Apothaeles, Thales and Hermes; reviews by Airy of various works; T. Catton's papers; material on candidates for entry into the Royal Society; and writing by F.W. Beechy on tides in the English Channel. The correspondents include F. Beaufort, H. Lloyd, E....

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Papers relating to transactions with the Royal Society, including correspondence with its members. The material includes papers on candidates for the Royal Society; correspondence on the printing of T. Catton's observations; Airy's paper on the effect of mountain passes; and reviews by Airy on various scientific works. The correspondents include W.H. Smyth, G.G. Stokes, C.V. Walker, J.G.S. Lefevre, E. Sabine, W. Shanks and J.B.A.L. Elie de Beaumont.

Scope and Contents Papers relating to transactions with the Royal Society, including correspondence with its members. The material includes lists of candidates for election into the Royal Society, 1855, 1856 and 1857; minutes of a Council meeting, 30 May 1856; a 'preliminary report of the Committee appointed to consider the formation of a Catalogue of Philosophical Memoirs'; papers on compass deviations in ships; a paper on the pendulum experiments at Harton Colliery; an 'account of the construction of the New...

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Papers relating to transactions with the Royal Society, including correspondence with its members. The material includes lists of the candidates for election into the Royal Society, 1858, 1859, 1860 and 1861; diagrams of the National Standards of Length; correspondence on the Meridional Arc of India; and a printed paper on the Royal Society Club.

Scope and Contents Papers relating to transactions with the Royal Society, including correspondence with its members. The material includes nominations for new members; papers on the Royal Society relief fund; papers by Airy on the difference in properties of hot and cold rolled malleable iron in regard to receiving and retaining induced magnetism ('On the strains in beams'; 'The diurnal inequalities of terrestrial magnetism', 1841-1857; and 'First analysis of 177 magnetic storms'); and a paper titled 'Did Sir...

Scope and Contents Papers relating to transactions with the Royal Society, including correspondence with its members. The papers includes Council minutes; a newspaper cutting on a Royal Society soirée, with a catalogue prepared for the event; papers and correspondence on the Meteorological Committee; printed accounts of the British Museum, 19 April 1872, and lists of Trustees; printed testimonials of Vernon Harcourt; an Admiralty chart of Heligoland (Helgoland), 1855; and a printed report of the...

Scope and Contents Papers relating to transactions with the Royal Society, including correspondence with its members. The material includes records of 'galvanic earth currents on days of tranquil magnetism'; lists of candidates for election to the Royal Society; a list of members of the Royal Society, 1871; and reports by Airy on several papers. There are also the following papers by Airy: 'Corrections to the computed lengths of waves of light published in the 'Philosophical Transactions' of the year 1868',...

Scope and Contents Papers relating to transactions with the Royal Society, including correspondence with its members. The material includes E. Sabine and Airy's resignations from the presidency of the Royal Society; papers on the roles of the Royal Society Club and the Philosophical Club; works on meteorology; a report on the Kew Observatory; pendulum observations; a paper on the temperature of the human body; Airy's address to the Royal Society; 'The Spiritualist', 15 February 1872, including an article on...

Scope and Contents Papers relating to transactions with the Royal Society, including correspondence with its members. The material includes notices and agendas of Royal Society meetings; council minutes; a report from 'The Morning Post' on a soirée; papers on business to be conducted by the Royal Society; material on the salaries of Royal Society staff; a paper on a new Arctic expedition; reviews of scientific works; and a plan of the Conway and Britannia railway bridges. The correspondents include G.G....

Scope and Contents Papers relating to transactions with the Royal Society, including correspondence with its members. The material includes pamphlets from the British Telegraph Manufactory; lists of candidates for, and members of, the Royal Society; a printed list of foreign men of science; printed and manuscript copies of the President's address of 1 December 1873; a newspaper cutting on Professor Williamson's lecture on 'the origin of species'; a newspaper cutting on Leigh Smith's Arctic voyage; a newspaper...

Scope and Contents Papers relating to transactions with the Royal Society, including correspondence with its members. The material includes printed papers used by the Government Grant Committee; papers on the Royal Society Medals; correspondence and newspaper cuttings on the total solar eclipse, April 1875; lists of candidates for, and Council minutes of, the Royal Society; a key, possibly for a photograph of the Fellows of the Royal Society; a paper by C.J.B. Williams 'on the present limitation in the...

Scope and Contents Papers relating to transactions with the Royal Society, including correspondence with its members. The material includes excerpts from Royal Society minutes; minutes relating to the government grant for the promotion of scientific research, 1882-1887; printed papers sent to the Eclipse Committee, the Meteorological Committee, the Governors and Guardians of the Armagh Observatory, the Herschel Manuscript Committee, the Pendulum Committee, the Solar Physics Letter Committee, the Antarctic...

Scope and Contents Papers relating to transactions with the Royal Society, including correspondence with its members. There are papers by Airy on the correction of the compass on iron-built ships; the theoretical explanation of an apparent new polarity in light, with a supplement; the laws of the rise and fall of the tide in the River Thames; the laws of individual tides at Southampton and Ipswich; and the papers supplied by James Ivory to the 'Philosophical Transactions'. The material also includes a list of...