King, Philip Parker, 1791-1856 (Rear Admiral, Naturalist)
Person
Dates
- Existence: 1791 - 1856
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Item
Letter concerning chronometers for HMS Adventure under Captain Philip P. King and for Captain Pringle Stokes of HMS Beagle, 1825-09-26
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 5/229: 292
Scope and Contents
Sent from John Barrow to John Pond.
Dates:
1825-09-26
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Item
Letter concerning nine chronometers for HMS Adventure under Captain Philip P. King, 1826-03-01
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 5/229: 321
Scope and Contents
Sent from John Barrow to John Pond.
Dates:
1826-03-01
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Series
Letter from Philip Parker King, Rear-Admiral, to E.F. Bennet, Secretary of Zoological Society, London, 17 Mar. 1835
Series
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8812/55
Scope and Contents
Thanks for 'Proceedings'; books required; he would like a description of rodents he presented to the Society; his manuscript notes only given habitat; a South American species; he knows it has been taken on the 'Beagle' voyage; Darwin sends his specimens to Cambridge; another specimen, a Peruvian cavy, presented to a 'Beagle' officer by an American sealing officer, Cutler; if it is new, he proposes 'Cutleri' as the name; another cavy from the east coast of Patagonia; he has distributed small...
Dates:
17 Mar. 1835
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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- Royal Greenwich Observatory (GBR/0180) 2
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- Deptford 1
- Woolwich 1