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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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Miscellaneous correspondence, 1855 - 1856

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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 6/376
Scope and Contents Airy's personal correspondence on scientific and non-scientific matters with, among others, J.C. Adams, F. Beaufort, J.B. Biot, E.M. Brayley, R.C. Carrington, A. de Morgan, W. Denison, J.F. Encke, H.A.E.A. Fayé, J.D. Forbes, B.A. Gould, P.A. Hansen, J.F.W. Herschel, J.R. Hind, U.J.J. Le Verrier, J.S. Bowerbank, E. Loomis, O.M. Mitchel, R.I. Murchison, C.H.F. Peters, C. Pritchard, L.A. Quetelet, J. Richardson, G.S.G. Santini, P.A. Secchi, W.H. Smyth, C.P. Smyth, J. Sopwith, O. Struve, J....
Dates: 1855 - 1856
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, 1856 - 1863

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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 6/380
Scope and Contents Airy's miscellaneous correspondence with, among others, J.C. Adams, W.C. Armstrong, J.B. Biot, G. Bishop, Mr Bloxam, A. Caswell, J. Challis, J. Cockle, A. d'Abbadie, W. Dension, A.A. De La Rive, W. De La Rue, A. de Morgan, R.L.J. Ellery, J.D. Everett, W. Fairbairn, J.D. Forbes, J.G. Forchhammer, A. Gautier, J.M. Gillis, B.A. Gould, R. Grant, J.F.W. Herschel, J.R. Hind, J. Lee, G.B.I.T. Libri, J.T. Littrow, E. Loomis, R. Main, W.H. Miller, O.M. Mitchel, F.N.M. Moigno, R. Murchison, G.E....
Dates: 1856 - 1863
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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Biot, Jean (Baptiste (1774-1862) physicist) 2
Challis, James, 1803 - 1882 (astronomer and physicist) 2
Denison, William Thomas, Sir, 1804 - 1871 (Knight, army officer and colonial governor) 2
Forbes, James David, 1809 - 1868 (natural philosopher) 2
Herschel, John Frederick William, Sir, 1792 - 1871 (Knight, astronomer) 2
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Lee, John, 1783 - 1866 (antiquary and astronomer) 2
Morgan, Augustus de, 1806 - 1871 (mathematician) 2
Murchison, Roderick Impey, Sir, 1792 - 1871 (1st Baronet, geologist) 2
Pritchard, Charles, 1808 - 1893 (headmaster and astronomer) 2
Quetelet, Lambert (Adolphe-Jacques (1796-1874) astronomer, statistician and sociologist) 2
Rue, Warren De La, 1815 - 1889 (chemist and astronomer) 2
Santini, Giovanni, 1787 - 1877 (astronomer) 2
Smyth, Charles Piazzi, 1819 - 1900 (astronomer) 2
Whewell, William, 1794 - 1866 (Master of Trinity College, Cambridge) 2
Wrottesley, John, 1798 - 1867 (2nd Baron Wrottesley, landowner and astronomer) 2
Adams, L, fl1800 (petitioner to the Board of Longitude) 1
Admiralty 1
Beaufort, Francis, Sir, 1774 - 1857 (Knight, Rear Admiral and hydrographer) 1
Bishop, George, 1785 - 1861 (astronomer) 1
Carrington, Richard Christopher, 1826 - 1875 (astronomer) 1
Dunkin, Edwin, 1821 - 1898 (astronomer) 1
Ellery, Robert Lewis John, 1827 - 1908 (astronomer) 1
Encke, Johann Franz, 1791 - 1865 (astronomer) 1
Everest, George, Sir, 1790 - 1866 (Knight, military engineer) 1
Everett, Joseph David, 1831 - 1904 (scientist) 1
Fairbairn, William, Sir, 1789 - 1874 (1st Baronet, engineer) 1
Fayé, Herve Auguste Etienne Albans, 1814 - 1902 (astronomer) 1
Fitzroy, Robert, 1805 - 1865 (hydrographer and meteorologist) 1
Glaisher, James, 1809 - 1903 (astronomer) 1
Grant, Robert, 1814 - 1892 (astronomer) 1
Hansen, Peter Andreas, 1795 - 1874 (astronomer) 1
Henslow, John Stevens, 1796 - 1861 (botanist and Church of England clergyman) 1
Huggins, William, Sir, 1824 - 1910 (Knight, astronomer) 1
Littrow, Jospeh Johann von, 1781 - 1840 (astronomer and mathematician) 1
Lubbock, John William, Sir, 1803 - 1865 (3rd Baronet, astronomer and banker) 1
Main, Robert, 1808 - 1878 (astronomer) 1
Miller, William Hallowes, 1801 - 1880 (mineralogist) 1
Parsons, William, 1800 - 1867 (3rd Earl of Rosse, astronomer) 1
Peters, Christian Heinrich Friedrich, 1813 - 1890 (astronomer) 1
Robinson, John Thomas Romney, 1792 - 1882 (astronomer and physicist) 1
Roscoe, Harry Enfield, Sir, 1833 - 1915 (Knight, chemist and university administrator) 1
Sheepshanks, Richard, 1794 - 1855 (astronomer) 1
Spottiswoode, William, 1825 - 1883 (mathematician and physicist) 1
Struve, Friedrich Georg Wilhelm, 1793 - 1864 (astronomer) 1
Struve, Otto Wilhelm, 1819 - 1905 (astronomer) 1
Tyndall, John, 1820 - 1893 (natural philosopher) 1
Verrier, Urbain Jean Joseph Le, 1811 - 1877 (astronomer) 1
Vignoles, Charles Blacker, 1793 - 1875 (civil engineer) 1
Walker, Charles Vincent, 1812 - 1882 (electrical engineer) 1
Washington, John, 1800 - 1863 (Rear Admiral, hydrographer) 1
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