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Correspondence on new techniques and discoveries, 1850 - 1851

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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 6/163
Scope and Contents Correspondence concerning new techniques and discoveries, including O.M. Mitchel's method of recording transits and north polar distances; a paper on J. Locke's electro-chronograph for the House of Representatives; conducted experiments and newspaper articles; the velocity of the galvanic current through telegraph wires, from 'The Daily Evening Traveller'; a clock for uniform motion by W.H. Miller, with drawings; a paper by Sir W. Siemens, in French, on telegraphs; M.J. Johnson's heliometer;...
Dates: 1850 - 1851
Conditions Governing Access: From the Management Group: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Official and scientific correspondence, 1823 - 1830

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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 6/803
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Airy's official and scientific correspondence, volume 1, including letters from Amici, Baily, Beaufort, Bouvard, Brewster, Carlini, Cerquene, Colby, Davy, Gambart, Garvey, Gilbert, Hamilton, Herschel, Hudson, Hussey, Jenkins, Lardner, Lax, Maclear, Pearson, Pond, Rigaud, Robinson, Rumker, Sabine, Sanchis, Schumacher, South, Stratford and Young, with an index to the correspondents at the end. There are a few letters in French and Italian.

Dates: 1823 - 1830
Conditions Governing Access: From the Management Group: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Official and scientific correspondence, 1830 - 1832

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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 6/804
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Airy's official and scientific correspondence, volume 2, including letters from Arago, Auber, Baily, Barrow, Beaufort, Becker, Cooper, De Morgan, Encke, Forbes, Foster, Gambert, Gilbert, Gregory, Hamilton, Harcourt, Henderson, Herschel, Hudson, Hussey, Inman, Innes, Lax, Lubbock, Maclear, Princess Olive, Parrot, Pearson, Quetelet, Robinson, Schumacher, Sheepshanks, Stratford, Taylor, Tiarks and Tyson, with an index to the correspondents at the end. There are a few letters in French.

Dates: 1830 - 1832
Conditions Governing Access: From the Management Group: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Papers on compass corrections on iron ships, 1849 - 1855

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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 6/687
Scope and Contents Correspondence and related papers concerning the correction of compasses on iron ships. The correspondents include A. Smith, F. Beaufort, F.W. Beechy, W. Whewell, J. Washington and E. Sabine. The papers include a circular giving notification of a set of lectures on magnetism at the United Service Institution; a newspaper cutting containing a letter by J. Gray on the compasses on the steamer 'Sarah Sands'; pages extracted from 'The Athenaeum' containing two papers by Airy on the correction of...
Dates: 1849 - 1855
Conditions Governing Access: From the Management Group: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Papers on Neptune and the minor planets, 1834 - 1884

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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 6/96a
Scope and Contents Correspondence of G.B. Airy (including many copy letters) and related papers concerning planets, including circulars, ephemerides, observations, announcements of discoveries, discussion of names and requests for information. The papers are in English unless otherwise indicated. They are divided into seven sections, comprised of the following items:Fo. 1r: List of contents.Fo. 2: Blank.Fo. 3r: Short note regarding the binding of the papers.Section 1: Papers...
Dates: 1834 - 1884
Conditions Governing Access: The volume is currently undergoing conservation work and is unavailable to readers, although a microfilm copy may be consulted.

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Hamilton, William Rowan, Sir, 1805 - 1865 (Knight, mathematician) 3
Herschel, John Frederick William, Sir, 1792 - 1871 (Knight, astronomer) 3
Morgan, Augustus de, 1806 - 1871 (mathematician) 3
Sabine, Edward, Sir, 1788 - 1883 (Knight, army officer and physicist) 3
Schumacher, Heinrich Christian, 1780 - 1850 (astronomer) 3
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Baily, Francis, 1774 - 1844 (stockbroker and astronomer) 2
Cooper, Edward Joshua, 1798 - 1863 (landowner and astronomer) 2
Encke, Johann Franz, 1791 - 1865 (astronomer) 2
Lassell, William, 1799 - 1880 (astronomer) 2
Lubbock, John William, Sir, 1803 - 1865 (3rd Baronet, astronomer and banker) 2
Maclear, Thomas, Sir, 1794 - 1879 (Knight, astronomer) 2
Robinson, John Thomas Romney, 1792 - 1882 (astronomer and physicist) 2
Sheepshanks, Richard, 1794 - 1855 (astronomer) 2
Stratford, William Samuel, ?1791 - 1853 (naval officer and astronomer) 2
Whewell, William, 1794 - 1866 (Master of Trinity College, Cambridge) 2
Adams, John Couch, 1819-1892 (astronomer) 1
Arago, Dominique François Jean, 1786 - 1853 (physicist) 1
Beechey, St Vincent, 1806 - 1899 (clergyman) 1
Breen, Hugh, 1824 (astronomer) 1
Carrington, Richard Christopher, 1826 - 1875 (astronomer) 1
Challis, James, 1803 - 1882 (astronomer and physicist) 1
Colby, Thomas Frederick, 1784 - 1852 (Major General, Director of Ordnance Survey) 1
Dilke, Charles Wentworth, 1789 - 1864 (critic and antiquary) 1
Forbes, James David, 1809 - 1868 (natural philosopher) 1
Galloway, Thomas, 1796 - 1851 (mathematician) 1
Glaisher, James, 1809 - 1903 (astronomer) 1
Hartnup, John, 1806 - 1885 (astronomer) 1
Hervey, Thomas Kibble, 1799 - 1859 (poet and journalist) 1
Hind, John Russell, 1823 - 1895 (astronomer) 1
Holland, Henry, Sir, 1788 - 1873 (1st Baronet, physician) 1
Hussey, Thomas John, fl1819 - 1854 (Rector of Hayes, astronomer) 1
Johnson, Manuel John, 1805 - 1859 (astronomer) 1
Lawson, Henry, 1774 - 1855 (astronomer) 1
Lee, John, 1783 - 1866 (antiquary and astronomer) 1
Main, Robert, 1808 - 1878 (astronomer) 1
Miller, William Hallowes, 1801 - 1880 (mineralogist) 1
Mitchel, Ormsby MacKnight, 1809 - 1862 (astronomer) 1
Murchison, Roderick Impey, Sir, 1792 - 1871 (1st Baronet, geologist) 1
Nichol, John Pringle, 1804 - 1859 (astronomer) 1
Parsons, William, 1800 - 1867 (3rd Earl of Rosse, astronomer) 1
Peacock, George, 1791 - 1858 (Dean of Ely, mathematician) 1
Pentland, Joseph Barclay, 1797 - 1873 (traveller) 1
Pillans, James, 1778 - 1864 (educational reformer) 1
Plana, Giovanni Antonio Amedeo, 1781 - 1864 (astronomer and mathematician) 1
Pond, John, 1767 - 1836 (astronomer) 1
Quetelet, Lambert (Adolphe-Jacques (1796-1874) astronomer, statistician and sociologist) 1
Riddle, Edward, 1788 - 1854 (mathematician and astronomer) 1
Rümker, Karl Ludwig Christian, 1788 - 1862 (astronomer) 1
Santini, Giovanni, 1787 - 1877 (astronomer) 1
Sedgwick, Adam, 1785-1873 (geologist) 1
Siemens, Charles William, Sir, 1823 - 1883 (Knight, metallurgist and electrical engineer) 1
Smyth, Charles Piazzi, 1819 - 1900 (astronomer) 1
Smyth, William Henry, 1788 - 1865 (Admiral, scientist and antiquary) 1
Verrier, Urbain Jean Joseph Le, 1811 - 1877 (astronomer) 1
Walker, Sears Cook, 1805 - 1853 (astronomer) 1
Washington, John, 1800 - 1863 (Rear Admiral, hydrographer) 1
Young, Charles Augustus, 1834 - 1908 (astronomer) 1
Young, John Radford, 1799 - 1885 (mathematician) 1
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