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Letters from observatories, 1880 - 1890

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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 6/154
Scope and Contents Letters from various British and international observatories on filling vacancies, with enclosed testimonials; the foundation of a new observatory in Hong Kong; work at Indian observatories; covering letters to reports; and observatory reports. The correspondents include J.L.E. Dreyer, E.J. Stone, C. Pritchard, Earl Rosse, Sir H. Thompson, E.J. Cooper, W. Spottiswoode, L. Mallet, N.R. Pogson, T.H. Huxley, E. Dunkin, O. Struve, G.G. Stokes, Earl Portsmouth, R.S. Churchill, Earl Kimberley,...
Dates: 1880 - 1890
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, 1862 - 1869

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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 6/381
Scope and Contents Airy's miscellaneous personal correspondence on scientific and non-scientific topics, including a great number of obituaries and memoirs of fellow scientists. The correspondents include C. Abbe, J.C. Adams, A.V. Auwers, G.P. Bond, A. Caswell, W.H.M. Christie, A. d'Abbadie, A. de Morgan, W. De La Rue, H.A.E.A. Fay, J.D. Forbes, W.J. Foerster, J.G. Galle, B.A. Gould, W. Huggins, W.R. Hamilton, P.A. Hansen, A.S. Herschel, J.F.W. Herschel, J.R. Hind, A.W.V. Hofmann, U.J.J. Le Verrier, J.H.V....
Dates: 1862 - 1869
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 instruments, 1875 - 1888

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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 6/179
Scope and Contents Papers on adjustments, tests, trials, performances and purchase of facilities and equipment for the Royal Observatory, including adjustments to the transit circle and its errors, collimation observations, intervals of wires and corrections; removal and installation at Greenwich of the Lassell Reflector; construction of a dome for the 18 foot telescope; performances of spectroscopes, including one drawing; photoheliographs; chronographs; the new sidereal clock; the chronometers the Brockbanks...
Dates: 1875 - 1888
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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Dunkin, Edwin, 1821 - 1898 (astronomer) 2
Huggins, William, Sir, 1824 - 1910 (Knight, astronomer) 2
Parsons, William, 1800 - 1867 (3rd Earl of Rosse, astronomer) 2
Pritchard, Charles, 1808 - 1893 (headmaster and astronomer) 2
Stokes, George Gabriel, Sir, 1819 - 1903 (1st Baronet, physicist) 2
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Auwers, Arthur Julius Georg Friedrich von, 1838 - 1915 (astronomer) 1
Bond, George Phillips, 1825 - 1865 (astronomer) 1
Cooper, Edward Joshua, 1798 - 1863 (landowner and astronomer) 1
Denison, William Thomas, Sir, 1804 - 1871 (Knight, army officer and colonial governor) 1
Evans, Frederick John Owen, 1815 - 1885 (hydrographer) 1
FayƩ, Herve Auguste Etienne Albans, 1814 - 1902 (astronomer) 1
Forbes, James David, 1809 - 1868 (natural philosopher) 1
Gould, Benjamin Apthorp, 1824 - 1896 (astronomer) 1
Grubb, Howard, Sir, 1844 - 1931 (Knight, scientist) 1
Hamilton, William Rowan, Sir, 1805 - 1865 (Knight, mathematician) 1
Hansen, Peter Andreas, 1795 - 1874 (astronomer) 1
Herschel, John Frederick William, Sir, 1792 - 1871 (Knight, astronomer) 1
Hind, John Russell, 1823 - 1895 (astronomer) 1
Huxley, Thomas Henry, 1825 - 1895 (scientist) 1
Lee, John, 1783 - 1866 (antiquary and astronomer) 1
Maunder, Edward Walter, 1851 - 1928 (astronomer) 1
Merivale, Herman, 1806 - 1874 (civil servant) 1
Morgan, Augustus de, 1806 - 1871 (mathematician) 1
Plana, Giovanni Antonio Amedeo, 1781 - 1864 (astronomer and mathematician) 1
Pogson, Norman Robert, 1829 - 1891 (astronomer) 1
Quetelet, Lambert (Adolphe-Jacques (1796-1874) astronomer, statistician and sociologist) 1
Robinson, John Thomas Romney, 1792 - 1882 (astronomer and physicist) 1
Roscoe, Harry Enfield, Sir, 1833 - 1915 (Knight, chemist and university administrator) 1
Smyth, Charles Piazzi, 1819 - 1900 (astronomer) 1
Smyth, William Henry, 1788 - 1865 (Admiral, scientist and antiquary) 1
Spottiswoode, William, 1825 - 1883 (mathematician and physicist) 1
Stone, Edward James, 1831 - 1897 (astronomer) 1
Todd, Charles, Sir, 1826 - 1910 (Knight, astronomer and meteorologist) 1
University of Oxford 1
Verrier, Urbain Jean Joseph Le, 1811 - 1877 (astronomer) 1
Whewell, William, 1794 - 1866 (Master of Trinity College, Cambridge) 1
Winnecke, Friedrich August Theodor, 1835 - 1897 (astronomer) 1
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