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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, 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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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
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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
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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
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Pritchard, Charles, 1808 - 1893 (headmaster and astronomer) 5
Herschel, John Frederick William, Sir, 1792 - 1871 (Knight, astronomer) 4
Hind, John Russell, 1823 - 1895 (astronomer) 4
Struve, Otto Wilhelm, 1819 - 1905 (astronomer) 4
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Auwers, Arthur Julius Georg Friedrich von, 1838 - 1915 (astronomer) 3
Hansen, Peter Andreas, 1795 - 1874 (astronomer) 3
Huggins, William, Sir, 1824 - 1910 (Knight, astronomer) 3
Lubbock, John William, Sir, 1803 - 1865 (3rd Baronet, astronomer and banker) 3
Morgan, Augustus de, 1806 - 1871 (mathematician) 3
Parsons, William, 1800 - 1867 (3rd Earl of Rosse, astronomer) 3
Rue, Warren De La, 1815 - 1889 (chemist and astronomer) 3
Smyth, Charles Piazzi, 1819 - 1900 (astronomer) 3
Smyth, William Henry, 1788 - 1865 (Admiral, scientist and antiquary) 3
Spottiswoode, William, 1825 - 1883 (mathematician and physicist) 3
Stokes, George Gabriel, Sir, 1819 - 1903 (1st Baronet, physicist) 3
Verrier, Urbain Jean Joseph Le, 1811 - 1877 (astronomer) 3
Walker, Charles Vincent, 1812 - 1882 (electrical engineer) 3
Admiralty 2
Challis, James, 1803 - 1882 (astronomer and physicist) 2
Denison, William Thomas, Sir, 1804 - 1871 (Knight, army officer and colonial governor) 2
Fayé, Herve Auguste Etienne Albans, 1814 - 1902 (astronomer) 2
Forbes, James David, 1809 - 1868 (natural philosopher) 2
Glaisher, James, 1809 - 1903 (astronomer) 2
Hamilton, William Rowan, Sir, 1805 - 1865 (Knight, mathematician) 2
Lee, John, 1783 - 1866 (antiquary and astronomer) 2
Lockyer, Joseph Norman, Sir, 1836 - 1920 (Knight, astronomer) 2
Mitchel, Ormsby MacKnight, 1809 - 1862 (astronomer) 2
Secchi, Pietro Angelo, 1818 - 1878 (astronomer) 2
Stone, Edward James, 1831 - 1897 (astronomer) 2
Todd, Charles, Sir, 1826 - 1910 (Knight, astronomer and meteorologist) 2
Vignoles, Charles Blacker, 1793 - 1875 (civil engineer) 2
Whewell, William, 1794 - 1866 (Master of Trinity College, Cambridge) 2
Wrottesley, John, 1798 - 1867 (2nd Baron Wrottesley, landowner and astronomer) 2
Airy, George Biddell, Sir, 1801 - 1892 (Knight, astronomer) 1
Beaufort, Francis, Sir, 1774 - 1857 (Knight, Rear Admiral and hydrographer) 1
Beke, Charles Tilstone, 1800 - 1874 (Abyssinian explorer) 1
Biot, Jean (Baptiste (1774-1862) physicist) 1
Bond, George Phillips, 1825 - 1865 (astronomer) 1
Bradley, James, 1692 - 1762 (astronomer) 1
Carrington, Richard Christopher, 1826 - 1875 (astronomer) 1
Christie, William Henry Mahoney, Sir, 1845 - 1922 (Knight, astronomer) 1
Common, Andrew Ainslie, 1841 - 1903 (astronomer and astronomical photographer) 1
Delaunay, Charles (Eugène (1816-1872) astronomer and mathematician) 1
Draper, John William, 1811 - 1882 (chemist and historian) 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
Gill, David, Sir, 1843 - 1914 (Knight, astronomer) 1
Grant, Robert, 1814 - 1892 (astronomer) 1
Grubb, Howard, Sir, 1844 - 1931 (Knight, scientist) 1
Harrison, John, 1693 - 1776 (horologist) 1
Henslow, John Stevens, 1796 - 1861 (botanist and Church of England clergyman) 1
Herschel, William, Sir, 1738 - 1822 (Knight, astronomer and musician) 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
Liverpool Observatory 1
Lyell, Charles, Sir, 1797 - 1875 (1st Baronet, geologist) 1
Murchison, Roderick Impey, Sir, 1792 - 1871 (1st Baronet, geologist) 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
Peters, Christian Heinrich Friedrich, 1813 - 1890 (astronomer) 1
Pickering, Edward Charles, 1846 - 1919 (astronomer and physicist) 1
Plana, Giovanni Antonio Amedeo, 1781 - 1864 (astronomer and mathematician) 1
Pound, James, 1669 - 1724 (clergyman) 1
Proctor, Richard Anthony, 1837 - 1888 (astronomer and science writer) 1
Richards, George Henry, Sir, 1820 - 1896 (Knight, naval officer and hydrographer) 1
Robinson, John Thomas Romney, 1792 - 1882 (astronomer and physicist) 1
Roscoe, Harry Enfield, Sir, 1833 - 1915 (Knight, chemist and university administrator) 1
Routh, Edward John, 1831 - 1907 (mathematician) 1
Royal Astronomical Society 1
Royal Observatory, Cape of Good Hope 1
Royal Society 1
Santini, Giovanni, 1787 - 1877 (astronomer) 1
Sheepshanks, Richard, 1794 - 1855 (astronomer) 1
South, James, Sir, 1785 - 1867 (Knight, astronomer) 1
Tennant, James Francis, 1829 - 1915 (soldier and astronomer) 1
Turner, Herbert Hall, 1861 - 1930 (astronomer and seismologist) 1
Tyndall, John, 1820 - 1893 (natural philosopher) 1
Washington, John, 1800 - 1863 (Rear Admiral, hydrographer) 1
Winnecke, Friedrich August Theodor, 1835 - 1897 (astronomer) 1
Young, Charles Augustus, 1834 - 1908 (astronomer) 1
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