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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, 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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Miscellaneous correspondence, 1873 - 1875

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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 6/383
Scope and Contents Airy's miscellaneous correspondence with, among others, J.C. Adams, A.V. Auwers, E. de Beaumont, C.T. Beke, Sir D. Brewster, B.C. Brodie, A d'Abbadie, W. De La Rue, A. de Morgan, G.B. Donati, E.J.A. Gautier, B.A. Gould, W.R. Hamilton, P.A. Hansen, C. Hansteen, J.F.W. Herschel, J.N. Lockyer, J.H. Malder, S. Newcomb, C. Pritchard, L.A. Quetelet, M. Sequin, D.A. Silveira, O. Struve and C.B. Vignoles. The papers include notices of the deaths of several eminent people, including non-scientists,...
Dates: 1873 - 1875
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 ancient eclipses, 1851 - 1852

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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 6/467
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Papers from a volume titled 'Chronology', concerned mainly with ancient eclipses. The correspondents include P.A. Hansen, J.R. Hind, J.W. Bosanquet, H. Malden, R.I. Murchison, W.R. Hamilton, J.C. Adams, W.H. Smyth, F. Beaufort and C. Hansteen. There are two maps of Asia Minor and of Tunis, and two Admiralty Charts of the coast of Tunis and the Gulf of Kabes.

Dates: 1851 - 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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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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Hansen, Peter Andreas, 1795 - 1874 (astronomer) 4
Herschel, John Frederick William, Sir, 1792 - 1871 (Knight, astronomer) 4
Morgan, Augustus de, 1806 - 1871 (mathematician) 4
Adams, L, fl1800 (petitioner to the Board of Longitude) 3
Beaufort, Francis, Sir, 1774 - 1857 (Knight, Rear Admiral and hydrographer) 3
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Gould, Benjamin Apthorp, 1824 - 1896 (astronomer) 3
Hind, John Russell, 1823 - 1895 (astronomer) 3
Auwers, Arthur Julius Georg Friedrich von, 1838 - 1915 (astronomer) 2
Bond, George Phillips, 1825 - 1865 (astronomer) 2
Denison, William Thomas, Sir, 1804 - 1871 (Knight, army officer and colonial governor) 2
Encke, Johann Franz, 1791 - 1865 (astronomer) 2
Forbes, James David, 1809 - 1868 (natural philosopher) 2
Lee, John, 1783 - 1866 (antiquary and astronomer) 2
Murchison, Roderick Impey, Sir, 1792 - 1871 (1st Baronet, geologist) 2
Parsons, William, 1800 - 1867 (3rd Earl of Rosse, astronomer) 2
Plana, Giovanni Antonio Amedeo, 1781 - 1864 (astronomer and mathematician) 2
Pritchard, Charles, 1808 - 1893 (headmaster and astronomer) 2
Quetelet, Lambert (Adolphe-Jacques (1796-1874) astronomer, statistician and sociologist) 2
Smyth, Charles Piazzi, 1819 - 1900 (astronomer) 2
Smyth, William Henry, 1788 - 1865 (Admiral, scientist and antiquary) 2
Struve, Otto Wilhelm, 1819 - 1905 (astronomer) 2
Verrier, Urbain Jean Joseph Le, 1811 - 1877 (astronomer) 2
Whewell, William, 1794 - 1866 (Master of Trinity College, Cambridge) 2
Arago, Dominique François Jean, 1786 - 1853 (physicist) 1
Beechey, St Vincent, 1806 - 1899 (clergyman) 1
Beke, Charles Tilstone, 1800 - 1874 (Abyssinian explorer) 1
Biot, Jean (Baptiste (1774-1862) physicist) 1
Bosanquet, James Whatman, 1804 - 1877 (banker and biblical historian) 1
Breen, Hugh, 1824 (astronomer) 1
Carrington, Richard Christopher, 1826 - 1875 (astronomer) 1
Challis, James, 1803 - 1882 (astronomer and physicist) 1
Christie, William Henry Mahoney, Sir, 1845 - 1922 (Knight, astronomer) 1
Cooper, Edward Joshua, 1798 - 1863 (landowner and astronomer) 1
Cubitt, William, Sir, 1785 - 1861 (Knight, civil engineer) 1
Dilke, Charles Wentworth, 1789 - 1864 (critic and antiquary) 1
Faraday, Michael, 1791 - 1867 (natural philosopher) 1
Fayé, Herve Auguste Etienne Albans, 1814 - 1902 (astronomer) 1
Galloway, Thomas, 1796 - 1851 (mathematician) 1
Glaisher, James, 1809 - 1903 (astronomer) 1
Hartnup, John, 1806 - 1885 (astronomer) 1
Hervey, Thomas Kibble, 1799 - 1859 (poet and journalist) 1
Holland, Henry, Sir, 1788 - 1873 (1st Baronet, physician) 1
Huggins, William, Sir, 1824 - 1910 (Knight, astronomer) 1
Hussey, Thomas John, fl1819 - 1854 (Rector of Hayes, astronomer) 1
Johnson, Manuel John, 1805 - 1859 (astronomer) 1
Lassell, William, 1799 - 1880 (astronomer) 1
Lawson, Henry, 1774 - 1855 (astronomer) 1
Lockyer, Joseph Norman, Sir, 1836 - 1920 (Knight, astronomer) 1
Lubbock, John William, Sir, 1803 - 1865 (3rd Baronet, astronomer and banker) 1
Main, Robert, 1808 - 1878 (astronomer) 1
Nichol, John Pringle, 1804 - 1859 (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
Riddle, Edward, 1788 - 1854 (mathematician and astronomer) 1
Roscoe, Harry Enfield, Sir, 1833 - 1915 (Knight, chemist and university administrator) 1
Rue, Warren De La, 1815 - 1889 (chemist and astronomer) 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
Sedgwick, Adam, 1785-1873 (geologist) 1
Sheepshanks, Richard, 1794 - 1855 (astronomer) 1
Stokes, George Gabriel, Sir, 1819 - 1903 (1st Baronet, physicist) 1
Todd, Charles, Sir, 1826 - 1910 (Knight, astronomer and meteorologist) 1
Vignoles, Charles Blacker, 1793 - 1875 (civil engineer) 1
Walker, Sears Cook, 1805 - 1853 (astronomer) 1
Winnecke, Friedrich August Theodor, 1835 - 1897 (astronomer) 1
Young, John Radford, 1799 - 1885 (mathematician) 1
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