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Miscellaneous correspondence, 1855 - 1856

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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 6/376
Scope and Contents Airy's personal correspondence on scientific and non-scientific matters with, among others, J.C. Adams, F. Beaufort, J.B. Biot, E.M. Brayley, R.C. Carrington, A. de Morgan, W. Denison, J.F. Encke, H.A.E.A. Fayé, J.D. Forbes, B.A. Gould, P.A. Hansen, J.F.W. Herschel, J.R. Hind, U.J.J. Le Verrier, J.S. Bowerbank, E. Loomis, O.M. Mitchel, R.I. Murchison, C.H.F. Peters, C. Pritchard, L.A. Quetelet, J. Richardson, G.S.G. Santini, P.A. Secchi, W.H. Smyth, C.P. Smyth, J. Sopwith, O. Struve, J....
Dates: 1855 - 1856
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, 1857 - 1859

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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 6/377
Scope and Contents Aiy's miscellaneous correspondence, letters A-K. The correspondents include, among others, J.C. Adams, F. Beaufort, J.B. Biot, G.P. Bond, J. Booth, R.C. Carrington, W. Cubitt, A. d'Abbadie, A. de Morgan, W. Denison, J.F. Encke, M. Faraday, J.D. Forbes, E. Frankland, J.E. Galle, A. Gautier, B.A. Gould, W.R. Hamilton, P.A. Hansen, C. Hansteen, J.F.W. Herschel, F.W.H.A. Humboldt, W.S. Jacob and M.J. Johnson. The papers include two newspaper cuttings, one on the death of Sir Francis Beaufort,...
Dates: 1857 - 1859
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, 1849 - 1850

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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 6/371
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Airy's miscellaneous correspondence with, among others, J.C. Adams, D.F.J. Arago, J.B. Biot, P.H.L. von Boguslowski, J. Challis, W. Cubitt, A. d'Abbadie, J.D. Forbes, J.S. Henslow, J.F.W. Herschel, M.J. Johnson, W. Lassell, U.J.J. Le Verrier, W.H. Miller, J.P. Nichol, G.A.A. Plana, J.C. Ross, the Earl of Rosse, H.C. Schumacher, G.G. Stokes, W.H. Smyth, C.P. Smyth, R. Sheepshanks, F.E.W.V. Struve and W. Whewell.

Dates: 1849 - 1850
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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Papers on chronology, geography and tides, 1857 - 1858

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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 6/472
Scope and Contents Correspondence and printed papers on chronology, geography and the tides. The correspondents include W. Whewell, J.C. Adams, J.R. Hind, J.W. Bosanquet, W.H. Barlow, P.A. Hansen, J.F. Encke, W.H. Smyth, J.B. Biot, J. Washington, W.H. Miller, M. Corbeaux, J. Lee, R. Fitzroy, J.W. Blakesley, Lord Lindsay, J. Williams, J. Wood, P.S. Stanhope, G. Dawson, J.F. Burgoyne, W. Selwyn and D. Livingstone. There is a paper on the date of the death of Olaf the Fat (Saint Olave); a geometric projection of...
Dates: 1857 - 1858
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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Visitation papers, 1849 - 1852

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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 6/10
Scope and Contents Letters concerning the Visitations of the Royal Observatory by the Board of Visitors, 2 June 1849, 1 June 1850, 7 June 1851 and 5 June 1852, with the announcement of J.C. Adams' ascension to the Board of Visitors.Report to the Board of Visitors, 2 June 1849 and 1 June 1850.Article from 'L'Institute', 27 February 1851, containing J.B. Biot's remarks on the report of 1850.Report to the Board of Visitors, 7 June 1851 and 5 June 1852.Correspondence concerning the...
Dates: 1849 - 1852
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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Forbes, James David, 1809 - 1868 (natural philosopher) 4
Herschel, John Frederick William, Sir, 1792 - 1871 (Knight, astronomer) 4
Whewell, William, 1794 - 1866 (Master of Trinity College, Cambridge) 4
Adams, L, fl1800 (petitioner to the Board of Longitude) 3
Denison, William Thomas, Sir, 1804 - 1871 (Knight, army officer and colonial governor) 3
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Encke, Johann Franz, 1791 - 1865 (astronomer) 3
Gould, Benjamin Apthorp, 1824 - 1896 (astronomer) 3
Hansen, Peter Andreas, 1795 - 1874 (astronomer) 3
Hind, John Russell, 1823 - 1895 (astronomer) 3
Miller, William Hallowes, 1801 - 1880 (mineralogist) 3
Morgan, Augustus de, 1806 - 1871 (mathematician) 3
Smyth, Charles Piazzi, 1819 - 1900 (astronomer) 3
Smyth, William Henry, 1788 - 1865 (Admiral, scientist and antiquary) 3
Beaufort, Francis, Sir, 1774 - 1857 (Knight, Rear Admiral and hydrographer) 2
Carrington, Richard Christopher, 1826 - 1875 (astronomer) 2
Challis, James, 1803 - 1882 (astronomer and physicist) 2
Cubitt, William, Sir, 1785 - 1861 (Knight, civil engineer) 2
Henslow, John Stevens, 1796 - 1861 (botanist and Church of England clergyman) 2
Johnson, Manuel John, 1805 - 1859 (astronomer) 2
Lee, John, 1783 - 1866 (antiquary and astronomer) 2
Mitchel, Ormsby MacKnight, 1809 - 1862 (astronomer) 2
Murchison, Roderick Impey, Sir, 1792 - 1871 (1st Baronet, geologist) 2
Parsons, William, 1800 - 1867 (3rd Earl of Rosse, astronomer) 2
Santini, Giovanni, 1787 - 1877 (astronomer) 2
Secchi, Pietro Angelo, 1818 - 1878 (astronomer) 2
Sheepshanks, Richard, 1794 - 1855 (astronomer) 2
Struve, Friedrich Georg Wilhelm, 1793 - 1864 (astronomer) 2
Struve, Otto Wilhelm, 1819 - 1905 (astronomer) 2
Verrier, Urbain Jean Joseph Le, 1811 - 1877 (astronomer) 2
Arago, Dominique François Jean, 1786 - 1853 (physicist) 1
Bishop, George, 1785 - 1861 (astronomer) 1
Bond, George Phillips, 1825 - 1865 (astronomer) 1
Bosanquet, James Whatman, 1804 - 1877 (banker and biblical historian) 1
Caesar, Gaius Julius, 100 - 44 (Roman statesman) 1
Ellery, Robert Lewis John, 1827 - 1908 (astronomer) 1
Everett, Joseph David, 1831 - 1904 (scientist) 1
Fairbairn, William, Sir, 1789 - 1874 (1st Baronet, engineer) 1
Faraday, Michael, 1791 - 1867 (natural philosopher) 1
Fayé, Herve Auguste Etienne Albans, 1814 - 1902 (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
Lassell, William, 1799 - 1880 (astronomer) 1
Lindsay, James Ludovic, 1847 - 1913 (26th Earl of Crawford) 1
Littrow, Jospeh Johann von, 1781 - 1840 (astronomer and mathematician) 1
Livingstone, David, 1813 - 1873 (African missionary and explorer) 1
Main, Robert, 1808 - 1878 (astronomer) 1
Peters, Christian Heinrich Friedrich, 1813 - 1890 (astronomer) 1
Plana, Giovanni Antonio Amedeo, 1781 - 1864 (astronomer and mathematician) 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
Rue, Warren De La, 1815 - 1889 (chemist and astronomer) 1
Schumacher, Heinrich Christian, 1780 - 1850 (astronomer) 1
Selwyn, William, 1806 - 1875 (Church of England clergyman) 1
Stokes, George Gabriel, Sir, 1819 - 1903 (1st Baronet, physicist) 1
Tyndall, John, 1820 - 1893 (natural philosopher) 1
Washington, John, 1800 - 1863 (Rear Admiral, hydrographer) 1
Wrottesley, John, 1798 - 1867 (2nd Baron Wrottesley, landowner and astronomer) 1
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