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Miscellaneous correspondence, 1851

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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 6/373
Scope and Contents Airy's miscellaneous correspondence with, among others, D.F.J. Arago, C. Babbage, G.P. Bond, J. Challis, A.R. Clarke, W. Cubitt, A. de Morgan, W. Denison, J.F. Encke, J.D. Forbes, J.G. Forchhammer, E. Gautier, B.A. Gould, P.A. Hansen, J.F.W. Herschel, G.B.I.T. Libri, G. Peacock, C. Pritchard, L.A. Quetelet, H.V. Regnault, the Earl of Rosse, G.S.G. Santini, H.C. Schumacher, P.A. Secchi, A. Sedgwick, R. Sheepshanks, W.H. Smyth, R. Stephenson, G.G. Stokes, W.S. Stratford, F.G.W. Struve, J....
Dates: 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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Miscellaneous correspondence, 1856 - 1863

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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 6/380
Scope and Contents Airy's miscellaneous correspondence with, among others, J.C. Adams, W.C. Armstrong, J.B. Biot, G. Bishop, Mr Bloxam, A. Caswell, J. Challis, J. Cockle, A. d'Abbadie, W. Dension, A.A. De La Rive, W. De La Rue, A. de Morgan, R.L.J. Ellery, J.D. Everett, W. Fairbairn, J.D. Forbes, J.G. Forchhammer, A. Gautier, J.M. Gillis, B.A. Gould, R. Grant, J.F.W. Herschel, J.R. Hind, J. Lee, G.B.I.T. Libri, J.T. Littrow, E. Loomis, R. Main, W.H. Miller, O.M. Mitchel, F.N.M. Moigno, R. Murchison, G.E....
Dates: 1856 - 1863
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
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Papers on meteorology, 1861 - 1865

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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 6/703
Scope and Contents Correspondence and papers regarding meteorology and meteorological instruments. The correspondents include R. Fitzroy, T.J. Main, M. Faraday, G. Fisher, C.V. Walker, A.S. Herschel, Lord Wrottesley, W.H. Sykes, J.V. Lamont, U.J.J. Le Verrier, J.F.W. Herschel, F. Galton, W.H. Miller, H. James, W. Farr, J.D. Forbes and N. Beardmore. The volume includes an extract from 'The Standard', 24 March 1865, on an 'Extraordinary Meteoric Arch'; printed circulars concerning the observation of meteors; a...
Dates: 1861 - 1865
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Morgan, Augustus de, 1806 - 1871 (mathematician) 3
Quetelet, Lambert (Adolphe-Jacques (1796-1874) astronomer, statistician and sociologist) 3
Challis, James, 1803 - 1882 (astronomer and physicist) 2
Denison, William Thomas, Sir, 1804 - 1871 (Knight, army officer and colonial governor) 2
Encke, Johann Franz, 1791 - 1865 (astronomer) 2
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Everett, Joseph David, 1831 - 1904 (scientist) 2
Gould, Benjamin Apthorp, 1824 - 1896 (astronomer) 2
Main, Robert, 1808 - 1878 (astronomer) 2
Miller, William Hallowes, 1801 - 1880 (mineralogist) 2
Parsons, William, 1800 - 1867 (3rd Earl of Rosse, astronomer) 2
Santini, Giovanni, 1787 - 1877 (astronomer) 2
Schumacher, Heinrich Christian, 1780 - 1850 (astronomer) 2
Secchi, Pietro Angelo, 1818 - 1878 (astronomer) 2
Sheepshanks, Richard, 1794 - 1855 (astronomer) 2
Smyth, William Henry, 1788 - 1865 (Admiral, scientist and antiquary) 2
Stratford, William Samuel, ?1791 - 1853 (naval officer and astronomer) 2
Struve, Friedrich Georg Wilhelm, 1793 - 1864 (astronomer) 2
Whewell, William, 1794 - 1866 (Master of Trinity College, Cambridge) 2
Adams, John Couch, 1819-1892 (astronomer) 1
Adams, L, fl1800 (petitioner to the Board of Longitude) 1
Arago, Dominique François Jean, 1786 - 1853 (physicist) 1
Astro-Meteorological Society 1
Babbage, Charles, 1791 - 1871 (mathematician) 1
Baily, Francis, 1774 - 1844 (stockbroker and astronomer) 1
Beaufort, Francis, Sir, 1774 - 1857 (Knight, Rear Admiral and hydrographer) 1
Biot, Jean (Baptiste (1774-1862) physicist) 1
Bishop, George, 1785 - 1861 (astronomer) 1
Bond, George Phillips, 1825 - 1865 (astronomer) 1
British Meteorological Society 1
Clarke, Alexander Ross, 1828 - 1914 (Fellow of Royal Society) 1
Cooper, Edward Joshua, 1798 - 1863 (landowner and astronomer) 1
Cubitt, William, Sir, 1785 - 1861 (Knight, civil engineer) 1
Ellery, Robert Lewis John, 1827 - 1908 (astronomer) 1
Fairbairn, William, Sir, 1789 - 1874 (1st Baronet, engineer) 1
Faraday, Michael, 1791 - 1867 (natural philosopher) 1
Fisher, George, 1794 - 1873 (astronomer) 1
Fitzroy, Robert, 1805 - 1865 (hydrographer and meteorologist) 1
Grant, Robert, 1814 - 1892 (astronomer) 1
Hamilton, William Rowan, Sir, 1805 - 1865 (Knight, mathematician) 1
Hansen, Peter Andreas, 1795 - 1874 (astronomer) 1
Hind, John Russell, 1823 - 1895 (astronomer) 1
Imperial Observatory, Paris 1
Lee, John, 1783 - 1866 (antiquary and astronomer) 1
Littrow, Jospeh Johann von, 1781 - 1840 (astronomer and mathematician) 1
Lubbock, John William, Sir, 1803 - 1865 (3rd Baronet, astronomer and banker) 1
Maclear, Thomas, Sir, 1794 - 1879 (Knight, astronomer) 1
Mitchel, Ormsby MacKnight, 1809 - 1862 (astronomer) 1
Murchison, Roderick Impey, Sir, 1792 - 1871 (1st Baronet, geologist) 1
Pritchard, Charles, 1808 - 1893 (headmaster and astronomer) 1
Robinson, John Thomas Romney, 1792 - 1882 (astronomer and physicist) 1
Roscoe, Harry Enfield, Sir, 1833 - 1915 (Knight, chemist and university administrator) 1
Royal Institution of Great Britain 1
Rue, Warren De La, 1815 - 1889 (chemist and astronomer) 1
Sedgwick, Adam, 1785-1873 (geologist) 1
Smyth, Charles Piazzi, 1819 - 1900 (astronomer) 1
Stephenson, Robert, 1803 - 1859 (civil engineer) 1
Stokes, George Gabriel, Sir, 1819 - 1903 (1st Baronet, physicist) 1
Tyndall, John, 1820 - 1893 (natural philosopher) 1
Verrier, Urbain Jean Joseph Le, 1811 - 1877 (astronomer) 1
Villarceau, Antoine (Joseph Yvon (1813-1883) astronomer and mathematician) 1
Walker, Charles Vincent, 1812 - 1882 (electrical engineer) 1
Wrottesley, John, 1798 - 1867 (2nd Baron Wrottesley, landowner and astronomer) 1
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