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Correspondence on solar eclipse, 1871 - 1874

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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 6/135
Scope and Contents Correspondence concerned primarily with following the solar eclipse of 14 December 1871. The papers include the announcement of the eclipse by N.R. Pogson; a report by Captain A.B. Fyers; observations by Sir J.N. Lockyer and Pogson, with 9 photographs taken at Madras; an Italian newspaper article by L. Respighi in the 'Gazzetta Officiale'; a French newspaper article; and a piece in 'The English Mechanic and World of Science' by R.A. Proctor. There are papers by Sir J.N. Lockyer on the 1871...
Dates: 1871 - 1874
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, 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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Challis, James, 1803 - 1882 (astronomer and physicist) 2
Denison, William Thomas, Sir, 1804 - 1871 (Knight, army officer and colonial governor) 2
Forbes, James David, 1809 - 1868 (natural philosopher) 2
Gould, Benjamin Apthorp, 1824 - 1896 (astronomer) 2
Morgan, Augustus de, 1806 - 1871 (mathematician) 2
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Parsons, William, 1800 - 1867 (3rd Earl of Rosse, astronomer) 2
Rue, Warren De La, 1815 - 1889 (chemist and astronomer) 2
Santini, Giovanni, 1787 - 1877 (astronomer) 2
Smyth, William Henry, 1788 - 1865 (Admiral, scientist and antiquary) 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
Babbage, Charles, 1791 - 1871 (mathematician) 1
Biot, Jean (Baptiste (1774-1862) physicist) 1
Bishop, George, 1785 - 1861 (astronomer) 1
Bond, George Phillips, 1825 - 1865 (astronomer) 1
Christie, William Henry Mahoney, Sir, 1845 - 1922 (Knight, astronomer) 1
Clarke, Alexander Ross, 1828 - 1914 (Fellow of Royal Society) 1
Cubitt, William, Sir, 1785 - 1861 (Knight, civil engineer) 1
Dunkin, Edwin, 1821 - 1898 (astronomer) 1
Ellery, Robert Lewis John, 1827 - 1908 (astronomer) 1
Encke, Johann Franz, 1791 - 1865 (astronomer) 1
Everett, Joseph David, 1831 - 1904 (scientist) 1
Fairbairn, William, Sir, 1789 - 1874 (1st Baronet, engineer) 1
Grant, Robert, 1814 - 1892 (astronomer) 1
Hansen, Peter Andreas, 1795 - 1874 (astronomer) 1
Hind, John Russell, 1823 - 1895 (astronomer) 1
Huggins, William, Sir, 1824 - 1910 (Knight, astronomer) 1
Lee, John, 1783 - 1866 (antiquary and astronomer) 1
Littrow, Jospeh Johann von, 1781 - 1840 (astronomer and mathematician) 1
Lockyer, Joseph Norman, Sir, 1836 - 1920 (Knight, 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
Pogson, Norman Robert, 1829 - 1891 (astronomer) 1
Pritchard, Charles, 1808 - 1893 (headmaster and astronomer) 1
Quetelet, Lambert (Adolphe-Jacques (1796-1874) astronomer, statistician and sociologist) 1
Roscoe, Harry Enfield, Sir, 1833 - 1915 (Knight, chemist and university administrator) 1
Schumacher, Heinrich Christian, 1780 - 1850 (astronomer) 1
Sedgwick, Adam, 1785-1873 (geologist) 1
Sheepshanks, Richard, 1794 - 1855 (astronomer) 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
Stratford, William Samuel, ?1791 - 1853 (naval officer and astronomer) 1
Tyndall, John, 1820 - 1893 (natural philosopher) 1
Villarceau, Antoine (Joseph Yvon (1813-1883) astronomer and mathematician) 1
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