Scope and Contents General correspondence of the editors of ‘The Observatory’ magazine, mainly with contributors but also with subscribers, printers and banks. Letters are arranged in chronological order. Editors include Derek Jones, Michael Penston and Jocelyn Bell Burnell. Correspondents include:Jan.-June 1974: John Gribbin (‘Nature’; with typed submission), Rev. G.G. Claridge (re. rejected note), D.N. Matheson (University of Kent), J.M. Kenchington (University of Bradford), Wayne Osborn (Instituto...

Scope and Contents The collection comprises an incomplete archive of the business papers of ‘The Observatory’ from 1922 to 1983 (mostly covering 1939-1975). The papers are arranged in four series: financial records, general correspondence and business files, reprints files, and miscellaneous print material. The bulk of the collection consists of editorial correspondence with contributing authors, mainly concerning submissions for publication (RGO 83/2) and reprints (RGO 83/3). Some files include...

Scope and Contents Photocopied press cuttings, originally arranged in indexed sets for circulation by SERC (to Mar. 1994 only).Includes cuttings on astronomy in general, science funding and policies, Glaxo pharmaceuticals, the Super-Janet computing network, semi-conductor research, the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, an obituary for Stephen Waley, a doomsday notice issued by Sofia Richmond (Sister Marie Gabriel) predicting the collision of Halley’s Comet with Jupiter by mid-July 1994, the Daresbury...

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Includes cuttings on the discovery of quasars and pulsars, the launch of Apollo 16 (1972), the possibility of a future Mars landing and of life on Mars, and the health impact for astronauts landing on the Moon.