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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
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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Challis, James, 1803 - 1882 (astronomer and physicist) 2
Glaisher, James, 1809 - 1903 (astronomer) 2
Hind, John Russell, 1823 - 1895 (astronomer) 2
Huggins, William, Sir, 1824 - 1910 (Knight, astronomer) 2
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Parsons, William, 1800 - 1867 (3rd Earl of Rosse, astronomer) 2
Pritchard, Charles, 1808 - 1893 (headmaster and astronomer) 2
Rue, Warren De La, 1815 - 1889 (chemist and astronomer) 2
Stokes, George Gabriel, Sir, 1819 - 1903 (1st Baronet, physicist) 2
Stone, Edward James, 1831 - 1897 (astronomer) 2
Adams, L, fl1800 (petitioner to the Board of Longitude) 1
Airy, George Biddell, Sir, 1801 - 1892 (Knight, astronomer) 1
Auwers, Arthur Julius Georg Friedrich von, 1838 - 1915 (astronomer) 1
Bradley, James, 1692 - 1762 (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
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
Herschel, John Frederick William, Sir, 1792 - 1871 (Knight, astronomer) 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
Lee, John, 1783 - 1866 (antiquary and astronomer) 1
Liverpool Observatory 1
Lockyer, Joseph Norman, Sir, 1836 - 1920 (Knight, astronomer) 1
Lyell, Charles, Sir, 1797 - 1875 (1st Baronet, geologist) 1
Mitchel, Ormsby MacKnight, 1809 - 1862 (astronomer) 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
Pickering, Edward Charles, 1846 - 1919 (astronomer and physicist) 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
Routh, Edward John, 1831 - 1907 (mathematician) 1
Royal Astronomical Society 1
Royal Observatory, Cape of Good Hope 1
Royal Society 1
Secchi, Pietro Angelo, 1818 - 1878 (astronomer) 1
Smyth, Charles Piazzi, 1819 - 1900 (astronomer) 1
Smyth, William Henry, 1788 - 1865 (Admiral, scientist and antiquary) 1
South, James, Sir, 1785 - 1867 (Knight, astronomer) 1
Struve, Otto Wilhelm, 1819 - 1905 (astronomer) 1
Tennant, James Francis, 1829 - 1915 (soldier and astronomer) 1
Todd, Charles, Sir, 1826 - 1910 (Knight, astronomer and meteorologist) 1
Turner, Herbert Hall, 1861 - 1930 (astronomer and seismologist) 1
Verrier, Urbain Jean Joseph Le, 1811 - 1877 (astronomer) 1
Vignoles, Charles Blacker, 1793 - 1875 (civil engineer) 1
Washington, John, 1800 - 1863 (Rear Admiral, hydrographer) 1
Wrottesley, John, 1798 - 1867 (2nd Baron Wrottesley, landowner and astronomer) 1
Young, Charles Augustus, 1834 - 1908 (astronomer) 1
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