Mitchel, Ormsby MacKnight, 1809 - 1862 (astronomer)
Found in 17 Collections and/or Records:
Astronomical methods, 1851 - 1859
Correspondence on instruments, 1842 - 1849
Correspondence on instruments, 1853 - 1854
Correspondence on new techniques and discoveries, 1850 - 1851
Correspondence on new techniques and instruments, 1851 - 1853
Correspondence on visitor admissions, 1835 - 1848
Correspondence on visitor admissions, 1855 - 1860
Correspondence with scientific societies, 1855 - 1856
Letters from observatories, 1847 - 1848
Letters from various observatories on filling vacancies, grant testimonials and orders for observations to be performed. The correspondents include W.C. Bond, J. Challis, O. Struve, O.M. Mitchel, C.P. Smyth, Lord Wrottesley, the Earl of Rosse, W.H. Sykes, P.P. King, Sir B. Hawes, R. Sheepshanks, Sir H.G. Ward and C. Pasley. Some of the later names were associated with the government. The volume also includes two copies of a report by C.P. Smyth on the Royal Observatory, Edinburgh.
Letters from observatories, 1849
Miscellaneous correspondence, 1848
Airy's miscellaneous personal correspondence for 1848, including requests for clocks and nautical almanacs and an extract from a book by J.F.W. Herschel called 'Outlines of Astronomy'. The correspondents include J.B. Biot, J.D. Forbes, W.R. Hamilton, J.F.W. Herschel, O.M. Mitchel, G.A.A. Plana, L.A. Quetelet, H.C. Schumacher, H. Lloyd, W.H. Smyth, F.G.W. Struve and J.R. Young.
Miscellaneous correspondence, 1855 - 1856
Miscellaneous correspondence, 1856 - 1863
Miscellaneous correspondence, 1828 - 1847
Miscellaneous correspondence, 1857 - 1859
Papers on Royal Astronomical Society, 1862 - 1863
Scientific correspondence, 1827 - 1854
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