Challis, James, 1803 - 1882 (astronomer and physicist)
Found in 62 Collections and/or Records:
Letters to Humphrey Lloyd, 1991
Around 150 letters from various correspondents to Professor Humphrey Lloyd, Provost of Trinity College, Dublin. There are numerous letters from G.B. Airy and Sir John Herschel. Other correspondents include well-known scientists, including John Couch Adams, A.D. Bache, David Brewster, Buys Ballot, John Challis and C.F. Gauss.
Lunar reduction reports, 1856 - 1860
Weekly reports by J.R. Lucas, the superintendent of the lunar reductions. There are also comparisons of J. Pond's star observations; calculations of epochs; calculations for lunar reductions; calculations of numbers from P.A. Hansen's tables; errata in J. Pond's observations; corrections to the Moon's parallax and semi-diameter; and letters from J.C. Adams, J. Challis and J.R. Hind.
Mathematical theories and calculations, 1825 - 1862
Meteorological observations and papers, 1837 - 1848
Miscellaneous astronomical papers, 1835 - 1848
Miscellaneous astronomical papers, 1851 - 1853
Miscellaneous astronomical papers, 1857 - 1858
Miscellaneous astronomical papers, 1871 - 1873
Miscellaneous astronomical papers, 1879
Miscellaneous correspondence, 1846 - 1897
Miscellaneous correspondence, 1834 - 1912
Miscellaneous correspondence, 1849 - 1850
Airy's miscellaneous correspondence with, among others, J.C. Adams, D.F.J. Arago, J.B. Biot, P.H.L. von Boguslowski, J. Challis, W. Cubitt, A. d'Abbadie, J.D. Forbes, J.S. Henslow, J.F.W. Herschel, M.J. Johnson, W. Lassell, U.J.J. Le Verrier, W.H. Miller, J.P. Nichol, G.A.A. Plana, J.C. Ross, the Earl of Rosse, H.C. Schumacher, G.G. Stokes, W.H. Smyth, C.P. Smyth, R. Sheepshanks, F.E.W.V. Struve and W. Whewell.
Miscellaneous correspondence, 1851
Miscellaneous correspondence, 1852
Airy's miscellaneous correspondence with, among others, D.F.J. Arago, F. Beaufort, J. Challis, E.J. Cooper, W.R. Dawes, A. de Morgan, W. Denison, J.F. Encke, J.D. Forbes, R. Grant, J.F.W. Herschel, the Earl of Rosse, E. Sabine, A. Sedgwick, R. Sheepshanks, W.H. Smyth, R. Stephenson, W.S. Stratford, F.E.W.V. Struve, W. Whewell and Lord Wrottesley.
Miscellaneous correspondence, 1856 - 1863
Miscellaneous correspondence, 1835 - 1848
Airy's miscellaneous correspondence, letters A-L. The correspondents include B. Amici, J. Anderson, D.F.J. Arago, F. Baily, F. Beaufort, F.W. Bessel. J.B. Biot, P.H.L. von Boguslowski, J. Coldecott, J. Challis, T. Chevallier, S.H. Christie, E.J. Cooper, W. Cubitt, W.R. Dawes, A. de Morgan, S.H. Drachs, J.F. Encke, J.D. Forbes, T. Galloway, E.J.A. Gautier, B.A. Gould, P.A. Hansen, T. Henderson, J.F.W. Herschel, J.G.S. Lefevre, U.J.J. Le Verrier and J.J. Littrow.
Miscellaneous correspondence, 1860 - 1861
Airy's miscellaneous correspondence with, among others, J.B. Biot. C. Brooke, J. Challis, A. d'Abbadie, A. de Morgan, W. Denison, J.D. Forbes, J.P. Gassiot, B.A. Gould, J.F.W. Herschel, J. Hartnup, W. Lassell, J. Lee, U.J.J. Le Verrier, J.W. Lubbock, R. Main, Mr Manners, F. Maxwell, C. Pritchard, L.A. Quetelet, J.D. Runkle, P.A. Secchi, W.H. Smyth, F. Struve, C.B. Vignoles, G.H. Wiedemann, W. Whewell and Mr Whitbread. The papers include a notice of the death of L.A. Quetelet's wife.
Miscellaneous scientific papers, 1794 - 1848
Miscellaneous scientific papers, 1853 - 1854
Miscellaneous scientific papers, 1869 - 1870
Miscellaneous scientific papers, 1871 - 1872
Papers concerning occasional observers, 1849 - 1873
Papers of solar eclipse, 1858
Papers on determining galvanic longitudes, 1852 - 1854
Papers on magnetism, 1862 - 1872
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