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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, 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, 1849 - 1850

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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 6/371
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Airy's miscellaneous correspondence with, among others, J.C. Adams, D.F.J. Arago, J.B. Biot, P.H.L. von Boguslowski, J. Challis, W. Cubitt, A. d'Abbadie, J.D. Forbes, J.S. Henslow, J.F.W. Herschel, M.J. Johnson, W. Lassell, U.J.J. Le Verrier, W.H. Miller, J.P. Nichol, G.A.A. Plana, J.C. Ross, the Earl of Rosse, H.C. Schumacher, G.G. Stokes, W.H. Smyth, C.P. Smyth, R. Sheepshanks, F.E.W.V. Struve and W. Whewell.

Dates: 1849 - 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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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 chronology, geography and tides, 1857 - 1858

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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 6/472
Scope and Contents Correspondence and printed papers on chronology, geography and the tides. The correspondents include W. Whewell, J.C. Adams, J.R. Hind, J.W. Bosanquet, W.H. Barlow, P.A. Hansen, J.F. Encke, W.H. Smyth, J.B. Biot, J. Washington, W.H. Miller, M. Corbeaux, J. Lee, R. Fitzroy, J.W. Blakesley, Lord Lindsay, J. Williams, J. Wood, P.S. Stanhope, G. Dawson, J.F. Burgoyne, W. Selwyn and D. Livingstone. There is a paper on the date of the death of Olaf the Fat (Saint Olave); a geometric projection of...
Dates: 1857 - 1858
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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Herschel, John Frederick William, Sir, 1792 - 1871 (Knight, astronomer) 5
Hind, John Russell, 1823 - 1895 (astronomer) 5
Smyth, William Henry, 1788 - 1865 (Admiral, scientist and antiquary) 5
Biot, Jean (Baptiste (1774-1862) physicist) 4
Forbes, James David, 1809 - 1868 (natural philosopher) 4
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Lee, John, 1783 - 1866 (antiquary and astronomer) 4
Morgan, Augustus de, 1806 - 1871 (mathematician) 4
Parsons, William, 1800 - 1867 (3rd Earl of Rosse, astronomer) 4
Smyth, Charles Piazzi, 1819 - 1900 (astronomer) 4
Verrier, Urbain Jean Joseph Le, 1811 - 1877 (astronomer) 4
Adams, L, fl1800 (petitioner to the Board of Longitude) 3
Challis, James, 1803 - 1882 (astronomer and physicist) 3
Denison, William Thomas, Sir, 1804 - 1871 (Knight, army officer and colonial governor) 3
Encke, Johann Franz, 1791 - 1865 (astronomer) 3
Gould, Benjamin Apthorp, 1824 - 1896 (astronomer) 3
Hansen, Peter Andreas, 1795 - 1874 (astronomer) 3
Miller, William Hallowes, 1801 - 1880 (mineralogist) 3
Murchison, Roderick Impey, Sir, 1792 - 1871 (1st Baronet, geologist) 3
Plana, Giovanni Antonio Amedeo, 1781 - 1864 (astronomer and mathematician) 3
Santini, Giovanni, 1787 - 1877 (astronomer) 3
Sheepshanks, Richard, 1794 - 1855 (astronomer) 3
Struve, Otto Wilhelm, 1819 - 1905 (astronomer) 3
Arago, Dominique François Jean, 1786 - 1853 (physicist) 2
Beaufort, Francis, Sir, 1774 - 1857 (Knight, Rear Admiral and hydrographer) 2
Fayé, Herve Auguste Etienne Albans, 1814 - 1902 (astronomer) 2
Hamilton, William Rowan, Sir, 1805 - 1865 (Knight, mathematician) 2
Henslow, John Stevens, 1796 - 1861 (botanist and Church of England clergyman) 2
Lassell, William, 1799 - 1880 (astronomer) 2
Main, Robert, 1808 - 1878 (astronomer) 2
Mitchel, Ormsby MacKnight, 1809 - 1862 (astronomer) 2
Pritchard, Charles, 1808 - 1893 (headmaster and astronomer) 2
Quetelet, Lambert (Adolphe-Jacques (1796-1874) astronomer, statistician and sociologist) 2
Roscoe, Harry Enfield, Sir, 1833 - 1915 (Knight, chemist and university administrator) 2
Schumacher, Heinrich Christian, 1780 - 1850 (astronomer) 2
Secchi, Pietro Angelo, 1818 - 1878 (astronomer) 2
Stokes, George Gabriel, Sir, 1819 - 1903 (1st Baronet, physicist) 2
Struve, Friedrich Georg Wilhelm, 1793 - 1864 (astronomer) 2
Auwers, Arthur Julius Georg Friedrich von, 1838 - 1915 (astronomer) 1
Beechey, St Vincent, 1806 - 1899 (clergyman) 1
Bishop, George, 1785 - 1861 (astronomer) 1
Bond, George Phillips, 1825 - 1865 (astronomer) 1
Bosanquet, James Whatman, 1804 - 1877 (banker and biblical historian) 1
Breen, Hugh, 1824 (astronomer) 1
Caesar, Gaius Julius, 100 - 44 (Roman statesman) 1
Carrington, Richard Christopher, 1826 - 1875 (astronomer) 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
Ellery, Robert Lewis John, 1827 - 1908 (astronomer) 1
Everett, Joseph David, 1831 - 1904 (scientist) 1
Fairbairn, William, Sir, 1789 - 1874 (1st Baronet, engineer) 1
Fitzroy, Robert, 1805 - 1865 (hydrographer and meteorologist) 1
Galloway, Thomas, 1796 - 1851 (mathematician) 1
Glaisher, James, 1809 - 1903 (astronomer) 1
Grant, Robert, 1814 - 1892 (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
Lawson, Henry, 1774 - 1855 (astronomer) 1
Lindsay, James Ludovic, 1847 - 1913 (26th Earl of Crawford) 1
Littrow, Jospeh Johann von, 1781 - 1840 (astronomer and mathematician) 1
Livingstone, David, 1813 - 1873 (African missionary and explorer) 1
Lubbock, John William, Sir, 1803 - 1865 (3rd Baronet, astronomer and banker) 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
Riddle, Edward, 1788 - 1854 (mathematician and astronomer) 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
Sedgwick, Adam, 1785-1873 (geologist) 1
Selwyn, William, 1806 - 1875 (Church of England clergyman) 1
Todd, Charles, Sir, 1826 - 1910 (Knight, astronomer and meteorologist) 1
Tyndall, John, 1820 - 1893 (natural philosopher) 1
Walker, Sears Cook, 1805 - 1853 (astronomer) 1
Washington, John, 1800 - 1863 (Rear Admiral, hydrographer) 1
Winnecke, Friedrich August Theodor, 1835 - 1897 (astronomer) 1
Wrottesley, John, 1798 - 1867 (2nd Baron Wrottesley, landowner and astronomer) 1
Young, John Radford, 1799 - 1885 (mathematician) 1
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