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Papers regarding payments for work done on behalf of the Board.

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The accounts of printers and publishers for Board of Longitude publications, with miscellaneous accounts.

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Airy's business correspondence, volume 1, including letters from Amyott, Baldwin, Banks, Barlow, Barton, Clowes, Cubitt, Dolland, Easton, Faraday, Furlong, Gilbert, Jones, Lowry, Simms, Smedley, Stevenson, Tully, Williams, Watkins and Woolf, with an index to the correspondents at the end.

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Airy's business correspondence, volume 2, including letters from Baldwin and Co., Children, Deighton, Dolland, Faraday, Hardy, Jones, Knight, Lowry, Mitchell, Ryder, Sheepshanks, Simms, Taylor, the University Press, Watkins and Woolgar, with an index to the correspondents at the end.

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Sent to John Wilson Croker from Robert Seppings, G. Legge and R.G. Middleton of the Navy Office.

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Six letters and a copy of an account for instruments supplied.

Scope and Contents Correspondence regarding admissions to visit the Royal Observatory. The volume is divided broadly into requests from the Admiralty to visit the Royal Observatory, introductions on behalf of visitors, personal requests to visit the Observatory, and instructions to assistants to receive guests. The correspondents include C. Wood, F. Beaufort, J. Barrow, S.H. Herbert, H.T.C. Corry, H.G. Ward, R.S. Dundas, J.G. Children, C.W. Pasley, H.C. Schumacher, J.F. Encke, J.W. Lubbock, T. Henderson, W.R....

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The accounts of printers and publishers for Board of Longitude publications, with miscellaneous accounts.

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Vouchers of John Pond and Dr Thomas Young for payments to tradesmen and others.

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Vouchers of John Pond and Dr Thomas Young for payments to tradesmen and others.

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Vouchers of Dr Thomas Young for payments to tradesmen and others. Also includes occasional correspondence.

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Vouchers of Dr Thomas Young for payments to tradesmen and others. Also includes occasional correspondence.

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Concerning the focal length of a 6 foot telescope.

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Concerning estimates received from Troughton, Dollond and Jones for instruments for the Cape Observatory.

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Requesting stationary, copy books and copies of papers by Professor Woodhouse on Dollond's transit instrument.

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Concerning estimates for a zenith micrometer for the Cape Observatory, parts of which were also being made by Dollond and Donkin.

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The letter contains the specifications of an object-glass for a six-foot telescope, with various dimensions of convex and concave lenses. Some notes and computations have been added in Maskelyne's hand.

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The letter provides measurements for the thickness of the glass in a six-foot object glass and includes a diagram.

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The letter provides answers to enquiries raised by Maskelyne concerning a six-foot telescope.

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Concerning expenses for a 46-inch telescope and the time needed to make it.

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Concerning the cost of a transit instrument and a reflecting telescope.

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Recommending Thomas Smith for the position of labourer assistant to the Astronomer Royal at the Cape Observatory.

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Concerning instruments ordered for Mr Fallows and enquiring about a dipping needle.

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Enquiring about when the ship would be ready to sail to the Cape of Good Hope to transmit his instruments to Fearon Fallows.

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Notifying Ronald of the arrival of a transit instrument he had sent.