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Correspondence on visitor admissions, 1855 - 1860

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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 6/708
Scope and Contents Correspondence regarding admissions to visit the Royal Observatory. The volume is divided broadly into requests from the Admiralty to visit the Royal Observatory, introductions on behalf of visitors, personal requests to visit the Observatory, questionnaires for visitors, and instructions to assistants to receive visitors. The correspondents include J. Washington, J. Field, W.H. Sykes, J.W. Lubbock, B.A. Gould, J.C. Adams, J.R. Hind, J.E. Grey, J.A. Brown, J.D. Forbes, R. Fitzroy, J....
Dates: 1855 - 1860
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 visitor admissions, 1866 - 1872

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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 6/710
Scope and Contents Correspondence regarding admissions to visit the Royal Observatory. The volume is divided broadly into requests by the Admiralty to visit the Royal Observatory, introductions on behalf of visitors, and personal requests to visit the Observatory. The correspondents include H.C.G.G. Lennox, G.H. Richards, F.J.O. Evans, R. Hall, J. Winlock, B.A. Gould, R. Grant, E.J. Stone, A.A. de la Rive, C.T. Bright, J.W. Lubbock, J.C. Adams, E.J. Routh, J. Glaisher, W. De La Rue, W. Farr, the Earl of Rosse,...
Dates: 1866 - 1872
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, 1886 - 1937

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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 7/251
Scope and Contents (1) Correspondence of the Astronomers Royal W.H.M. Christie and F.W. Dyson with the Hydrographer of the Navy, 1886-1932.(2) Correspondence with the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, 1886-1937Letters on the disc presented to W.H.M. Christie, 1902.Pages from 'Nature' reporting the speech made by Professor Love on presenting W.H.M. Christie and A.W. Rücker with the degree of Doctor of Science (Honorary), 1902. Notice of the vacancy of the chair of Savilian...
Dates: 1886 - 1937
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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Papers on Neptune and the minor planets, 1834 - 1884

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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 6/96a
Scope and Contents Correspondence of G.B. Airy (including many copy letters) and related papers concerning planets, including circulars, ephemerides, observations, announcements of discoveries, discussion of names and requests for information. The papers are in English unless otherwise indicated. They are divided into seven sections, comprised of the following items:Fo. 1r: List of contents.Fo. 2: Blank.Fo. 3r: Short note regarding the binding of the papers.Section 1: Papers...
Dates: 1834 - 1884
Conditions Governing Access: The volume is currently undergoing conservation work and is unavailable to readers, although a microfilm copy may be consulted.

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Lubbock, John William, Sir, 1803 - 1865 (3rd Baronet, astronomer and banker) 3
Admiralty 2
Challis, James, 1803 - 1882 (astronomer and physicist) 2
Gould, Benjamin Apthorp, 1824 - 1896 (astronomer) 2
Hind, John Russell, 1823 - 1895 (astronomer) 2
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Lee, John, 1783 - 1866 (antiquary and astronomer) 2
Parsons, William, 1800 - 1867 (3rd Earl of Rosse, astronomer) 2
Quetelet, Lambert (Adolphe-Jacques (1796-1874) astronomer, statistician and sociologist) 2
Rue, Warren De La, 1815 - 1889 (chemist and astronomer) 2
Smyth, William Henry, 1788 - 1865 (Admiral, scientist and antiquary) 2
Spottiswoode, William, 1825 - 1883 (mathematician and physicist) 2
Walker, Charles Vincent, 1812 - 1882 (electrical engineer) 2
Arago, Dominique François Jean, 1786 - 1853 (physicist) 1
Bakhuyzen, Hendricus Gerardus van de Sande, 1838 - 1923 (astronomer) 1
Beaufort, Francis, Sir, 1774 - 1857 (Knight, Rear Admiral and hydrographer) 1
Beechey, St Vincent, 1806 - 1899 (clergyman) 1
Breen, Hugh, 1824 (astronomer) 1
Clerke, Agnes Mary, 1842 - 1907 (writer on astronomy) 1
Common, Andrew Ainslie, 1841 - 1903 (astronomer and astronomical photographer) 1
Cooper, Edward Joshua, 1798 - 1863 (landowner and astronomer) 1
Darwin, George Howard, Sir, 1845 - 1912 (Knight, mathematician and geophysicist) 1
Delaunay, Charles (Eugène (1816-1872) astronomer and mathematician) 1
Dilke, Charles Wentworth, 1789 - 1864 (critic and antiquary) 1
Draper, John William, 1811 - 1882 (chemist and historian) 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
Evans, Frederick John Owen, 1815 - 1885 (hydrographer) 1
Everest, George, Sir, 1790 - 1866 (Knight, military engineer) 1
Fitzroy, Robert, 1805 - 1865 (hydrographer and meteorologist) 1
Galloway, Thomas, 1796 - 1851 (mathematician) 1
Gill, David, Sir, 1843 - 1914 (Knight, astronomer) 1
Grant, Robert, 1814 - 1892 (astronomer) 1
Hamilton, William Rowan, Sir, 1805 - 1865 (Knight, mathematician) 1
Hartnup, John, 1806 - 1885 (astronomer) 1
Herschel, John Frederick William, Sir, 1792 - 1871 (Knight, astronomer) 1
Hervey, Thomas Kibble, 1799 - 1859 (poet and journalist) 1
Holland, Henry, Sir, 1788 - 1873 (1st Baronet, physician) 1
Home Office 1
Huggins, William, Sir, 1824 - 1910 (Knight, astronomer) 1
Hussey, Thomas John, fl1819 - 1854 (Rector of Hayes, astronomer) 1
King's College, London 1
Lassell, William, 1799 - 1880 (astronomer) 1
Lawson, Henry, 1774 - 1855 (astronomer) 1
Lyell, Charles, Sir, 1797 - 1875 (1st Baronet, geologist) 1
Main, Robert, 1808 - 1878 (astronomer) 1
Mitchel, Ormsby MacKnight, 1809 - 1862 (astronomer) 1
Morgan, Augustus de, 1806 - 1871 (mathematician) 1
Murchison, Roderick Impey, Sir, 1792 - 1871 (1st Baronet, geologist) 1
Nichol, John Pringle, 1804 - 1859 (astronomer) 1
Oppolzer, Theodor Egon Ritter von, 1841 - 1886 (astronomer) 1
Peacock, George, 1791 - 1858 (Dean of Ely, mathematician) 1
Pentland, Joseph Barclay, 1797 - 1873 (traveller) 1
Pillans, James, 1778 - 1864 (educational reformer) 1
Plana, Giovanni Antonio Amedeo, 1781 - 1864 (astronomer and mathematician) 1
Pritchard, Charles, 1808 - 1893 (headmaster and astronomer) 1
Radcliffe Observatory, Oxford 1
Richards, George Henry, Sir, 1820 - 1896 (Knight, naval officer and hydrographer) 1
Riddle, Edward, 1788 - 1854 (mathematician and astronomer) 1
Robinson, John Thomas Romney, 1792 - 1882 (astronomer and physicist) 1
Routh, Edward John, 1831 - 1907 (mathematician) 1
Royal Navy 1
Rümker, Karl Ludwig Christian, 1788 - 1862 (astronomer) 1
Sabine, Edward, Sir, 1788 - 1883 (Knight, army officer and physicist) 1
Santini, Giovanni, 1787 - 1877 (astronomer) 1
Schumacher, Heinrich Christian, 1780 - 1850 (astronomer) 1
Secchi, Pietro Angelo, 1818 - 1878 (astronomer) 1
Sedgwick, Adam, 1785-1873 (geologist) 1
Sheepshanks, Richard, 1794 - 1855 (astronomer) 1
Stokes, George Gabriel, Sir, 1819 - 1903 (1st Baronet, physicist) 1
Stone, Edward James, 1831 - 1897 (astronomer) 1
Turner, Herbert Hall, 1861 - 1930 (astronomer and seismologist) 1
University of Cambridge 1
University of London 1
University of Oxford 1
Verrier, Urbain Jean Joseph Le, 1811 - 1877 (astronomer) 1
Vignoles, Charles Blacker, 1793 - 1875 (civil engineer) 1
Walker, Sears Cook, 1805 - 1853 (astronomer) 1
Washington, John, 1800 - 1863 (Rear Admiral, hydrographer) 1
Whewell, William, 1794 - 1866 (Master of Trinity College, Cambridge) 1
Wrottesley, John, 1798 - 1867 (2nd Baron Wrottesley, landowner and astronomer) 1
Young, John Radford, 1799 - 1885 (mathematician) 1
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