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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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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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Encke, Johann Franz, 1791 - 1865 (astronomer) 2
Morgan, Augustus de, 1806 - 1871 (mathematician) 2
Schumacher, Heinrich Christian, 1780 - 1850 (astronomer) 2
Sheepshanks, Richard, 1794 - 1855 (astronomer) 2
Stratford, William Samuel, ?1791 - 1853 (naval officer and astronomer) 2
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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
Bond, George Phillips, 1825 - 1865 (astronomer) 1
British Meteorological Society 1
Challis, James, 1803 - 1882 (astronomer and physicist) 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
Denison, William Thomas, Sir, 1804 - 1871 (Knight, army officer and colonial governor) 1
Everett, Joseph David, 1831 - 1904 (scientist) 1
Faraday, Michael, 1791 - 1867 (natural philosopher) 1
Fisher, George, 1794 - 1873 (astronomer) 1
Fitzroy, Robert, 1805 - 1865 (hydrographer and meteorologist) 1
Gould, Benjamin Apthorp, 1824 - 1896 (astronomer) 1
Hamilton, William Rowan, Sir, 1805 - 1865 (Knight, mathematician) 1
Hansen, Peter Andreas, 1795 - 1874 (astronomer) 1
Imperial Observatory, Paris 1
Lubbock, John William, Sir, 1803 - 1865 (3rd Baronet, astronomer and banker) 1
Maclear, Thomas, Sir, 1794 - 1879 (Knight, astronomer) 1
Main, Robert, 1808 - 1878 (astronomer) 1
Miller, William Hallowes, 1801 - 1880 (mineralogist) 1
Parsons, William, 1800 - 1867 (3rd Earl of Rosse, astronomer) 1
Pritchard, Charles, 1808 - 1893 (headmaster and astronomer) 1
Robinson, John Thomas Romney, 1792 - 1882 (astronomer and physicist) 1
Royal Institution of Great Britain 1
Santini, Giovanni, 1787 - 1877 (astronomer) 1
Secchi, Pietro Angelo, 1818 - 1878 (astronomer) 1
Sedgwick, Adam, 1785-1873 (geologist) 1
Smyth, William Henry, 1788 - 1865 (Admiral, scientist and antiquary) 1
Stephenson, Robert, 1803 - 1859 (civil engineer) 1
Stokes, George Gabriel, Sir, 1819 - 1903 (1st Baronet, physicist) 1
Struve, Friedrich Georg Wilhelm, 1793 - 1864 (astronomer) 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
Whewell, William, 1794 - 1866 (Master of Trinity College, Cambridge) 1
Wrottesley, John, 1798 - 1867 (2nd Baron Wrottesley, landowner and astronomer) 1
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