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Sent from Arnold and Dent to John Pond.

Scope and Contents Correspondence with the Admiralty concerning money grants and salaries:Letters and estimates of work needing to be done at the Royal Observatory, 1835-1844, including an estimate of the amount needed to update the library, an estimate of the cost of painting the inside of the domes, and an estimate of the work needing to be done to the zenith tube. There is also a letter from John Pond, received 13 January 1836, concerning the hothouse.Letters and notes relating to...

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Admiralty papers sent to Pond concerning the fitting out of H M Ships with chronometers.

Scope and Contents From the Series: The collection contains a complete set of astronomical observation ledgers, with clock error notes, computation ledgers, star catalogues, weather records and correspondence. There are observations of comets, including measurements taken of Encke's Comet, 1828, and Halley's Comet, 1835, and observations of rockets, made with Sir James South in 1831. The papers include Pond's measurements for his work on the proper motions of stars, stellar parallax and other subjects, as well as substantial...

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A booklet with H.P. Hollis, 'The Greenwich Assistants during 250 years', pasted inside, including annotations. At the end of the booklet is 'Mr Pond's ''Statement respecting the assistants at the Royal Observatory"'.

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For his services in the experiments in determining the difference in longitude between Paris and Greenwich.

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Computations, comprised mainly of comparisons between J. Pond and Airy's calculations of the right ascension of clock stars and planets, the meantime of the Moon's transit, and the Moon's horizontal equation of parallax and north polar distance. There are also reductions of zenith distances with the mural circle.

Scope and Contents Minutes of Board of Longitude meetings regarding, among other matters, experiments to discover the longitude of Falmouth; instruments required by Fearon Fallows at the Cape of Good Hope; Sir Humphrey Davy's suggestion of publishing a catalogue of double stars by John Herschel and Sir James South; Johann Tiarks's trip to Heligoland to discover the longitude of the island and its relative position to both the coast of Germany and Greenwich; the purchase of a 14-foot reflecting telescope for...

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Concerning observations by Samuel Ward Flinders and John Crosley on a voyage of HMS Investigator.

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Concerning observations made on a voyage of HMS Investigator.

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Copies of outgoing correspondence from Astronomer Royal, John Pond, and his assistant, Thomas Taylor, at the Royal Observatory. Some of the letters are addressed to chronometer makers. Note that correspondence to more than one person often appears on the same page.

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Copies of outgoing correspondence from Astronomer Royal, John Pond, and his assistant, Thomas Taylor, at the Royal Observatory. Some of the letters are addressed to chronometer makers. Note that correspondence to more than one person often appears on the same page.

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Copies of outgoing correspondence from Astronomer Royal, John Pond, and his assistant, Thomas Taylor, at the Royal Observatory. Some of the letters are addressed to chronometer makers. Note that correspondence to more than one person often appears on the same page.

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A Royal Observatory letter book containing copies of outgoing correspondence concerning chronometers. Some of the letters are addressed to chronometer makers. Inverted at the back is a record of the letters received.

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Correspondence between the Admiralty Office and the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, requesting the loan of chronometers for H M Ships. The principal recipient is John Pond; the principal correspondent is John Barrow. Other correspondents include John Croker, Richard S. Dundas, G. Smith, John Franklin and Sir William Edward Parry.

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Sent from Clement Harris to John Pond.

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Sent from Richard Webster to John Pond.

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Sent from Thomas Earnshaw to John Pond.

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Sent from Arnold and Dent to John Pond.

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Sent from Arnold and Dent to John Pond.

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Sent from John Carter to John Pond

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Sent from James Scott to John Pond.

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Sent from Francis Lancaster to John Pond.

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Sent from Molyneux & Cope to John Pond.

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Sent from Robert Pennington to John Pond.