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Correspondence on the Southern Durchmusterung, 1879 - 1890

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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 15/136
Scope and Contents Correspondence of David Gill with various individuals regarding work on the Southern Durchmusterung, divided into sections by correspondent:Professor J.C. Adams, Cambridge, 13 March 1888.Dr A. Auwers, Berlin, 9 May - 1 June 1887.A.A. Common, Ealing, 20 June 1887 - 7 July 1899.Thomas Dollmeyer, London, 21 November 1882 - 9 November 1887.T. and P. Henry, Paris, 13 February - 20 May 1885.M.L. and W. Huggins, London, 22 January 1883 - 25 September...
Dates: 1879 - 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, 1883 - 1890

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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 15/126
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Miscellaneous correspondence of David Gill with astronomers and other individuals, divided into sections by correspondent: Cleveland Abbe; J.C. Adams; Professor Bakhuyzen; L. de Ball; Ballot; Belknapp, Washington; Miss Clerke; A.A. Common; Ralph Copeland; Cornu, Paris; Lord Lindsay; G.H. Darwin; J.L.E. Dreyer; Espin; Floyd of the Lick Observatory; J.W.L. Glaisher; and Gould.

Dates: 1883 - 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, 1846 - 1897

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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 7/247
Scope and Contents (1) Letters regarding the existence of Neptune, 1846-1878Duplicate copies of collected correspondence on the investigations of J.C. Adams and U.J.J. Le Verrier into the existence of Neptune and in particular of the ensuing controversy over the name of the planet. There are also other letters concerning the minor planets and mathematical formula for their orbits, the Moon's equation and lunar acceleration. The correspondents include J.C. Adams, Sir George Airy, F.N.M. Arago, J....
Dates: 1846 - 1897
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, 1834 - 1912

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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 7/248
Scope and Contents (1) Correspondence, 1834-1895Correspondence regarding J.C. Adams and other subjects, as follows:Index to correspondence, 1895.C. Taylor's suggestion of a memorial to J.C. Adams at Westminster Abbey, 1892.D. McAlister's proposal for a publication of J.C. Adams's papers, with lists of important correspondence, 1892-1893.Notes on correspondence in the Royal Observatory records regarding the search for Neptune, 1834.Notes from J.F.W. Hershel's...
Dates: 1834 - 1912
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Auwers, Arthur Julius Georg Friedrich von, 1838 - 1915 (astronomer) 3
Gill, David, Sir, 1843 - 1914 (Knight, astronomer) 3
Huggins, William, Sir, 1824 - 1910 (Knight, astronomer) 3
Stokes, George Gabriel, Sir, 1819 - 1903 (1st Baronet, physicist) 3
Struve, Otto Wilhelm, 1819 - 1905 (astronomer) 3
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Adams, L, fl1800 (petitioner to the Board of Longitude) 2
Airy, George Biddell, Sir, 1801 - 1892 (Knight, astronomer) 2
Challis, James, 1803 - 1882 (astronomer and physicist) 2
Darwin, George Howard, Sir, 1845 - 1912 (Knight, mathematician and geophysicist) 2
Gould, Benjamin Apthorp, 1824 - 1896 (astronomer) 2
Herschel, John Frederick William, Sir, 1792 - 1871 (Knight, astronomer) 2
Herschel, William, Sir, 1738 - 1822 (Knight, astronomer and musician) 2
Hind, John Russell, 1823 - 1895 (astronomer) 2
Knobel, Edward Ball, 1841 - 1930 (chemist and astronomer) 2
Pritchard, Charles, 1808 - 1893 (headmaster and astronomer) 2
Royal Astronomical Society 2
Smyth, Charles Piazzi, 1819 - 1900 (astronomer) 2
Stone, Edward James, 1831 - 1897 (astronomer) 2
Tennant, James Francis, 1829 - 1915 (soldier and astronomer) 2
Todd, Charles, Sir, 1826 - 1910 (Knight, astronomer and meteorologist) 2
Turner, Herbert Hall, 1861 - 1930 (astronomer and seismologist) 2
Verrier, Urbain Jean Joseph Le, 1811 - 1877 (astronomer) 2
Young, Charles Augustus, 1834 - 1908 (astronomer) 2
Arago, Dominique François Jean, 1786 - 1853 (physicist) 1
Bakhuyzen, Hendricus Gerardus van de Sande, 1838 - 1923 (astronomer) 1
Ball, Robert Stawell, Sir, 1840 - 1913 (Knight, astronomer) 1
Board of Longitude 1
Bradley, James, 1692 - 1762 (astronomer) 1
Clerke, Agnes Mary, 1842 - 1907 (writer on astronomy) 1
Dreyer, John Louis Emile, 1852 - 1926 (astronomer) 1
Dunkin, Edwin, 1821 - 1898 (astronomer) 1
Dyson, Frank Watson, Sir, 1868 - 1939 (Knight, astronomer) 1
Encke, Johann Franz, 1791 - 1865 (astronomer) 1
Everest, George, Sir, 1790 - 1866 (Knight, military engineer) 1
Glaisher, James, 1809 - 1903 (astronomer) 1
Grubb, Howard, Sir, 1844 - 1931 (Knight, scientist) 1
Harrison, John, 1693 - 1776 (horologist) 1
Langley, Samuel Pierpont, 1834 - 1906 (astronomer, physicist and aeronautics pioneer) 1
Lassell, William, 1799 - 1880 (astronomer) 1
Lee, John, 1783 - 1866 (antiquary and astronomer) 1
Liverpool Observatory 1
Lockyer, Joseph Norman, Sir, 1836 - 1920 (Knight, astronomer) 1
Lubbock, John William, Sir, 1803 - 1865 (3rd Baronet, astronomer and banker) 1
Maclear, Thomas, Sir, 1794 - 1879 (Knight, astronomer) 1
Morgan, Augustus de, 1806 - 1871 (mathematician) 1
Murchison, Roderick Impey, Sir, 1792 - 1871 (1st Baronet, geologist) 1
Nasmyth, James, 1808 - 1890 (engineer) 1
Newcomb, Simon, 1835 - 1909 (astronomer) 1
Newton, Isaac, Sir, 1642 - 1727 (Knight, natural philosopher and mathematician) 1
Paris Observatory 1
Parsons, William, 1800 - 1867 (3rd Earl of Rosse, astronomer) 1
Pickering, Edward Charles, 1846 - 1919 (astronomer and physicist) 1
Pound, James, 1669 - 1724 (clergyman) 1
Proctor, Richard Anthony, 1837 - 1888 (astronomer and science writer) 1
Quetelet, Lambert (Adolphe-Jacques (1796-1874) astronomer, statistician and sociologist) 1
Royal Observatory, Cape of Good Hope 1
Royal Society 1
Rue, Warren De La, 1815 - 1889 (chemist and astronomer) 1
Schumacher, Heinrich Christian, 1780 - 1850 (astronomer) 1
Sedgwick, Adam, 1785-1873 (geologist) 1
Sheepshanks, Richard, 1794 - 1855 (astronomer) 1
South, James, Sir, 1785 - 1867 (Knight, astronomer) 1
Spottiswoode, William, 1825 - 1883 (mathematician and physicist) 1
Thomson, William, 1824 - 1907 (Baron Kelvin, mathematician and physicist) 1
University of Cambridge 1
Walker, Charles Vincent, 1812 - 1882 (electrical engineer) 1
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