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Correspondence with various people and bodies, 1960, including Dr Woolley; Dr Goldsbrough; Professor Lighthill; the Ministry of Aviation, Farnborough; F.G. Call of the Maritime Museum; and Southern Television. There is also correspondence and other material relating to the Royal Photographic Society, 1954-1959, and the International Society for Photogrammetry, 1959, regarding meetings, lectures, etc.

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Correspondence, reports and invitations to speak from various photographic societies, including the Hammersmith Hampshire House Photographic Society, 1954; the 'Journal of Photographic Science', 1953; the Royal Photographic Society, 1951 and 1953; the South Suburban and Catford Photographic Society, 1952; the Central Association of Photographic Societies, 1952; and the Institute of British Photographers, 1950, with a programme of its meetings, 1949-1950.

Scope and Contents Papers and correspondence, 1890, relating to the Naval Exhibition of 1891, including a prospectus with an invitation to the Astronomer Royal to sit on the council; a request for exhibits from the Royal Observatory, with a list of instruments sent to the exhibitions; and a history of the Royal Observatory.Request for chronometers to be loaned to the Liverpool Naval Exhibition, 1892, and plans of the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool.Papers relating to the Royal Photographic...

Scope and Contents Correspondence of 1903-1904 concerning the St Louis Exhibition of 1904, including a request from the Royal Commission for an exhibit to be sent, a list of exhibits, a written description of the Royal Observatory photographs and the work of the Royal Observatory generally, correspondence with the Royal Photographic Society, correspondence on the award of the Grand Prize to the Royal Observatory exhibit, a file of miscellaneous memoranda, and diagrams of exhibition...

Scope and Contents Invitation for the Astronomer Royal to sit on the Committee for the Antwerp International Exhibition, 1894, and his letter declining the offer, 1893.Invitation to the Astronomer Royal to become a judge at the Chicago Exhibition of 1893.Correspondence of 1894-1895 concerning the Imperial Institute Exhibition of Photography, 1895.Papers concerning the Astronomical Society of Wales Exhibition, 1896.Papers concerning the proposed erection of the 'Great Terrestrial...

Scope and Contents Correspondence with the Secretary of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 1897-1914, concerning the award of the Bruce Gold Medal to Simon Newcomb, 1898; Arthur Auwers, 1899; David Gill, 1900; G.V. Schiaparelli, 1902; William Huggins, 1904; W.C. Vogel, 1906; E.C. Pickering, 1908; G.W. Hill, 1909; J.H. Poincaré, 1911; J.C. Kapteyn, 1913; and O. Backlund, 1914.Correspondence and papers relating to the Optical Society, 1905-1910, including notices of meetings, lists of members and...