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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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Correspondence on transit of Venus, 1868 - 1881

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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 6/271
Scope and Contents Correspondence relating to the transit of Venus, 1874. The correspondents include J.C. Adams, W. De La Rue (with a photograph), R.L.J. Ellery, B.A. Gould, R. Grant, Sir W. Huggins, Lord Lindsay, Sir D. Gill, Sir J.N. Lockyer, Sir T. Maclear, Dr R. Copeland, R. Main, E.J. Stone, C. Meldrum, N.R. Pogson, R.A. Proctor, H.C. Russel, C. Todd, Major Tennant, Dr Oppolzer, J.C. Houzeau, J.A.C. Oudemans, P.A.E. Laugier, A. d'Abbadie, C.E. Delaunay, U.J.J. Le Verrier, O. Struve, Dr P.J.E. Janssen, G....
Dates: 1868 - 1881
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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Letters from observatories, 1869 - 1872

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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 6/150
Scope and Contents Letters from various British and international observatories on filling vacancies; the foundation of new observatories at Auckland and Christchurch, New Zealand; requests for astronomical works; and recommendations for the Indian observatories. The correspondents include H. Merivale, N.R. Pogson, C.E. Delaunay, Sir W. Denison, J.A. Broun, R.L.J. Ellery, B.A. Gould, the Earl of Rosse, R. Grant, Sir D. Gill, W.M. Maskell, J.C. Adams, A.R. Clarke and W. Harkness. There are proceedings and...
Dates: 1869 - 1872
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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
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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Common, Andrew Ainslie, 1841 - 1903 (astronomer and astronomical photographer) 3
Gould, Benjamin Apthorp, 1824 - 1896 (astronomer) 3
Huggins, William, Sir, 1824 - 1910 (Knight, astronomer) 3
Struve, Otto Wilhelm, 1819 - 1905 (astronomer) 3
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Auwers, Arthur Julius Georg Friedrich von, 1838 - 1915 (astronomer) 2
Delaunay, Charles (Eugène (1816-1872) astronomer and mathematician) 2
Ellery, Robert Lewis John, 1827 - 1908 (astronomer) 2
Grant, Robert, 1814 - 1892 (astronomer) 2
Lockyer, Joseph Norman, Sir, 1836 - 1920 (Knight, astronomer) 2
Parsons, William, 1800 - 1867 (3rd Earl of Rosse, astronomer) 2
Pogson, Norman Robert, 1829 - 1891 (astronomer) 2
Stokes, George Gabriel, Sir, 1819 - 1903 (1st Baronet, physicist) 2
Todd, Charles, Sir, 1826 - 1910 (Knight, astronomer and meteorologist) 2
Verrier, Urbain Jean Joseph Le, 1811 - 1877 (astronomer) 2
Airy, George Biddell, Sir, 1801 - 1892 (Knight, astronomer) 1
Bakhuyzen, Hendricus Gerardus van de Sande, 1838 - 1923 (astronomer) 1
Bradley, James, 1692 - 1762 (astronomer) 1
Challis, James, 1803 - 1882 (astronomer and physicist) 1
Clarke, Alexander Ross, 1828 - 1914 (Fellow of Royal Society) 1
Clerke, Agnes Mary, 1842 - 1907 (writer on astronomy) 1
Darwin, George Howard, Sir, 1845 - 1912 (Knight, mathematician and geophysicist) 1
Denison, William Thomas, Sir, 1804 - 1871 (Knight, army officer and colonial governor) 1
Dreyer, John Louis Emile, 1852 - 1926 (astronomer) 1
Dyson, Frank Watson, Sir, 1868 - 1939 (Knight, astronomer) 1
Glaisher, James, 1809 - 1903 (astronomer) 1
Grubb, Howard, Sir, 1844 - 1931 (Knight, scientist) 1
Harrison, John, 1693 - 1776 (horologist) 1
Herschel, John Frederick William, Sir, 1792 - 1871 (Knight, astronomer) 1
Herschel, William, Sir, 1738 - 1822 (Knight, astronomer and musician) 1
Hind, John Russell, 1823 - 1895 (astronomer) 1
Imperial Observatory, Paris 1
Knobel, Edward Ball, 1841 - 1930 (chemist and astronomer) 1
Langley, Samuel Pierpont, 1834 - 1906 (astronomer, physicist and aeronautics pioneer) 1
Lassell, William, 1799 - 1880 (astronomer) 1
Lindsay, James Ludovic, 1847 - 1913 (26th Earl of Crawford) 1
Liverpool Observatory 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
Merivale, Herman, 1806 - 1874 (civil servant) 1
Nasmyth, James, 1808 - 1890 (engineer) 1
Newcomb, Simon, 1835 - 1909 (astronomer) 1
Newton, Isaac, Sir, 1642 - 1727 (Knight, natural philosopher and mathematician) 1
Oppolzer, Theodor Egon Ritter von, 1841 - 1886 (astronomer) 1
Pickering, Edward Charles, 1846 - 1919 (astronomer and physicist) 1
Pound, James, 1669 - 1724 (clergyman) 1
Pritchard, Charles, 1808 - 1893 (headmaster and astronomer) 1
Proctor, Richard Anthony, 1837 - 1888 (astronomer and science writer) 1
Quetelet, Lambert (Adolphe-Jacques (1796-1874) astronomer, statistician and sociologist) 1
Royal Astronomical Society 1
Royal Observatory, Cape of Good Hope 1
Royal Society 1
Rue, Warren De La, 1815 - 1889 (chemist and astronomer) 1
Secchi, Pietro Angelo, 1818 - 1878 (astronomer) 1
Smyth, Charles Piazzi, 1819 - 1900 (astronomer) 1
South, James, Sir, 1785 - 1867 (Knight, astronomer) 1
Spottiswoode, William, 1825 - 1883 (mathematician and physicist) 1
Stone, Edward James, 1831 - 1897 (astronomer) 1
Tennant, James Francis, 1829 - 1915 (soldier and astronomer) 1
Turner, Herbert Hall, 1861 - 1930 (astronomer and seismologist) 1
United States Naval Observatory, Washington 1
Walker, Charles Vincent, 1812 - 1882 (electrical engineer) 1
Winnecke, Friedrich August Theodor, 1835 - 1897 (astronomer) 1
Young, Charles Augustus, 1834 - 1908 (astronomer) 1
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