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Correspondence between Sir Richard Woolley and R.H. Stoy regarding the proper motion of RR Lyrae stars and the completion of the northern stars by the Royal Greenwich Observatory Astrometric Department. The letters also discuss the possibility of a Cape Observatory programme on M-Dwarf stars.

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Correspondence between Sir Richard Woolley and R.H. Stoy regarding the star UY Eri and whether it should be called the fastest W Virginis star or the longest period RR Lyrae star.

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Correspondence between Sir Richard Woolley and R.H. Stoy regarding work on the RR Lyrae stars and a way to beat the difficulties arising from the variation from one cycle to the next.

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Correspondence between Sir Richard Woolley and R.H. Stoy regarding the observing programme for RR Lyrae.

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Correspondence with R.H. Stoy, Her Majesty's Astronomer at the Cape.

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Correspondence with R.H. Stoy, Her Majesty's Astronomer at the Cape, including letters concerning the opening of the Elizabeth Telescope, 1 May 1964; a report of the Cape Observatory for the period 1 April 1963 to 31 March 1964; and notes of a meeting held at the Royal Greenwich Observatory on 22 August 1962 to discuss the future status of the Cape Observatory.

Scope and Contents Correspondence with various newspapers and magazines concerning articles, interviews and reviews of books, including the following items:Request from the Soviet Press for Richard Woolley's comments on the space flight, 1962.Correspondence with Field Enterprises, the Educational Corporation and 'The Guardian', 1962.Correspondence with the 'Yorkshire Post', the National Society for Clean Air and the Associated Press on the move to Herstmonceux and scientific progress,...

Scope and Contents Correspondence between the Astronomer Royal and the Royal Society on a variety of matters, including the following items:Correspondence with R.H. Stoy concerning H. Spencer Jones' obituary notice, 1961.Correspondence on the Royal Society Tercentenary Appeal, 1961.Correspondence concerning various publications, including biographical data on H. Spencer Jones, 1961.Correspondence on Royal Society medals.Address to the Royal Society.Correspondence...

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General correspondence with, among others, R.H. Stoy of the Royal Observatory, Cape Town; the Mount Wilson and Palomar Observatories, California; A. Curtis, Literary Editor of the 'Sunday Telegraph'; the University of Southampton; the Chambre Suisse de l'Horologerie; and G.M. Sisson of Sir Howard Grubb, Parsons and Co. Ltd. The subjects include a review by Sir Richard Woolley for the 'Sunday Telegraph' of 'The Story of Jodrell Bank' by Sir Bernard Lovell.

Scope and Contents General papers, including correspondence with D.E. Blackwell of the University Observatory, Oxford; J.W. Schofield of the University of Hull, regarding an infra-red spectrometer; J.V. Peach of the Mount Wilson and Palomar Observatories, Pasadena, concerning the design and construction of Cassegrain spectrographs; the Science Research Council; R.H. Stoy of the Royal Observatory, Cape of Good Hope; Sir Martin Ryle of the Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory, Cambridge, concerning the Large...

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A letter from D.S. Evans to R.H. Stoy regarding signs of astigmatism in the telescope at the Radcliffe Observatory, Pretoria, and the need to take corrective action, with discussion of matters relating to the use of the grating.

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A letter from R.H. Stoy of the Royal Observatory, Cape of Good Hope, to Richard Woolley on possible plates of Omega Centauri taken in 1940 or 1950.

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A letter from R.H. Stoy of the Royal Observatory, Cape of Good Hope, to Richard Woolley regarding a set of Omega Centauri plates.

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A letter from R.H. Stoy to Richard Woolley regarding photoelectric observations made to date and the resultant light curves.

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A letter from R.H. Stoy to Sir Richard Woolley regarding radial velocities of the W Virginis type variables, photoelectric sequences in Variable Field II of the Large Magellanic Cloud, and problems vignetting in the corrector field of the Elizabeth Telescope.

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Letter from R.H. Stoy to Sir Richard Woolley regarding a programme to obtain the proper motions of certain southern stars.

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A letter from R.H. Stoy to Sir Richard Woolley regarding alterations to a paper by D.S. Evans titled 'Fundamental Data for Southern Stars'.

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A letter from R.H. Stoy regarding the European Southern Observatory Seeing Expedition meeting at the Cape Observatory, 24 and 25 February 1957.

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A letter from R.H. Stoy concerning the possibility of R.V. Willstrop working at the Royal Observatory, Cape of Good Hope; his award of the C.B.E.; the Professorship at the University of Cape Town; German interest in the European Southern Observatory; the Suez affair; and family news.

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A letter from Sir Richard Woolley to R.H. Stoy, H.M. Astronomer, Royal Cape Observatory, regarding a group of stars below the main sequence according to their trigonometrical parallaxes.

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A letter from Richard Woolley to R.H. Stoy regarding stars with the C characteristic in RR Lyrae.

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A letter from Richard Woolley to R.H. Stoy regarding the possible classification of the spectra of variables in Omega Centauri.

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A letter from Sir Richard Woolley to R.H. Stoy containing a query on proper motions.

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A letter from Sir Richard Woolley to R.H. Stoy regarding the use of Blaauw and Delhaye's tables for the reduction of all the RR Lyrae proper motions to FK3.

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A letter from Sir Richard Woolley to R.H. Stoy regarding the good results obtained from the new 40-inch reflector and its possible use for photometry.