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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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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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Papers on Neptune and the minor planets, 1848 - 1850

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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 6/97
Scope and Contents Papers relating to Neptune and the minor planets Metis, Flora, Iris, Astraea, Hygiea, Parthenope, Victoria and Egeria, comprising circulars, ephemerides, notices of discoveries, observations and requests for information. The material on Neptune includes U.J.J. Le Verrier's accounts of its discovery in French scientific journals, American research on Neptune, newspaper accounts and letters from J.C. Adams. The contributors include A. Graham, N.R. Pogson, E.J. Cooper, G. Capocci, J. Challis,...
Dates: 1848 - 1850
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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Morgan, Augustus de, 1806 - 1871 (mathematician) 3
Murchison, Roderick Impey, Sir, 1792 - 1871 (1st Baronet, geologist) 3
Smyth, William Henry, 1788 - 1865 (Admiral, scientist and antiquary) 3
Whewell, William, 1794 - 1866 (Master of Trinity College, Cambridge) 3
Beaufort, Francis, Sir, 1774 - 1857 (Knight, Rear Admiral and hydrographer) 2
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Biot, Jean (Baptiste (1774-1862) physicist) 2
Carrington, Richard Christopher, 1826 - 1875 (astronomer) 2
Challis, James, 1803 - 1882 (astronomer and physicist) 2
Cooper, Edward Joshua, 1798 - 1863 (landowner and 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
Gould, Benjamin Apthorp, 1824 - 1896 (astronomer) 2
Lassell, William, 1799 - 1880 (astronomer) 2
Lee, John, 1783 - 1866 (antiquary and astronomer) 2
Main, Robert, 1808 - 1878 (astronomer) 2
Mitchel, Ormsby MacKnight, 1809 - 1862 (astronomer) 2
Parsons, William, 1800 - 1867 (3rd Earl of Rosse, astronomer) 2
Secchi, Pietro Angelo, 1818 - 1878 (astronomer) 2
Sheepshanks, Richard, 1794 - 1855 (astronomer) 2
Smyth, Charles Piazzi, 1819 - 1900 (astronomer) 2
Verrier, Urbain Jean Joseph Le, 1811 - 1877 (astronomer) 2
Adams, L, fl1800 (petitioner to the Board of Longitude) 1
Arago, Dominique François Jean, 1786 - 1853 (physicist) 1
Beechey, St Vincent, 1806 - 1899 (clergyman) 1
Bishop, George, 1785 - 1861 (astronomer) 1
Breen, Hugh, 1824 (astronomer) 1
Chevallier, Temple, 1794 - 1873 (astronomer) 1
Dilke, Charles Wentworth, 1789 - 1864 (critic and antiquary) 1
Ellery, Robert Lewis John, 1827 - 1908 (astronomer) 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
Galloway, Thomas, 1796 - 1851 (mathematician) 1
Gasparis, Annibale de, 1819 - 1892 (astronomer) 1
Glaisher, James, 1809 - 1903 (astronomer) 1
Graham, Andrew, 1815 - 1908 (astronomer) 1
Grant, Robert, 1814 - 1892 (astronomer) 1
Hamilton, William Rowan, Sir, 1805 - 1865 (Knight, mathematician) 1
Hansen, Peter Andreas, 1795 - 1874 (astronomer) 1
Hartnup, John, 1806 - 1885 (astronomer) 1
Henslow, John Stevens, 1796 - 1861 (botanist and Church of England clergyman) 1
Hervey, Thomas Kibble, 1799 - 1859 (poet and journalist) 1
Holland, Henry, Sir, 1788 - 1873 (1st Baronet, physician) 1
Hussey, Thomas John, fl1819 - 1854 (Rector of Hayes, astronomer) 1
Lawson, Henry, 1774 - 1855 (astronomer) 1
Littrow, Jospeh Johann von, 1781 - 1840 (astronomer and mathematician) 1
Lubbock, John William, Sir, 1803 - 1865 (3rd Baronet, astronomer and banker) 1
Miller, William Hallowes, 1801 - 1880 (mineralogist) 1
Nichol, John Pringle, 1804 - 1859 (astronomer) 1
Peacock, George, 1791 - 1858 (Dean of Ely, mathematician) 1
Pentland, Joseph Barclay, 1797 - 1873 (traveller) 1
Peters, Christian Heinrich Friedrich, 1813 - 1890 (astronomer) 1
Pillans, James, 1778 - 1864 (educational reformer) 1
Plana, Giovanni Antonio Amedeo, 1781 - 1864 (astronomer and mathematician) 1
Pogson, Norman Robert, 1829 - 1891 (astronomer) 1
Pritchard, Charles, 1808 - 1893 (headmaster and astronomer) 1
Quetelet, Lambert (Adolphe-Jacques (1796-1874) astronomer, statistician and sociologist) 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, George Friedrich Wilhem, 1832 - 1900 (astronomer) 1
Rümker, Karl Ludwig Christian, 1788 - 1862 (astronomer) 1
Sabine, Edward, Sir, 1788 - 1883 (Knight, army officer and physicist) 1
Schumacher, Heinrich Christian, 1780 - 1850 (astronomer) 1
Sedgwick, Adam, 1785-1873 (geologist) 1
Struve, Friedrich Georg Wilhelm, 1793 - 1864 (astronomer) 1
Struve, Otto Wilhelm, 1819 - 1905 (astronomer) 1
Tyndall, John, 1820 - 1893 (natural philosopher) 1
Walker, Sears Cook, 1805 - 1853 (astronomer) 1
Wrottesley, John, 1798 - 1867 (2nd Baron Wrottesley, landowner and astronomer) 1
Young, John Radford, 1799 - 1885 (mathematician) 1
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