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Confirmed minutes, 1823 - 1829

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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 14/8
Scope and Contents Minutes of Board of Longitude meetings regarding, among other matters, experiments to discover the longitude of Falmouth; instruments required by Fearon Fallows at the Cape of Good Hope; Sir Humphrey Davy's suggestion of publishing a catalogue of double stars by John Herschel and Sir James South; Johann Tiarks's trip to Heligoland to discover the longitude of the island and its relative position to both the coast of Germany and Greenwich; the purchase of a 14-foot reflecting telescope for...
Dates: 1823 - 1829
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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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Adams, John Couch, 1819-1892 (astronomer) 1
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
Babbage, Charles, 1791 - 1871 (mathematician) 1
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Baily, Francis, 1774 - 1844 (stockbroker and astronomer) 1
Bradley, James, 1692 - 1762 (astronomer) 1
Challis, James, 1803 - 1882 (astronomer and physicist) 1
Common, Andrew Ainslie, 1841 - 1903 (astronomer and astronomical photographer) 1
Davy, Humphry, Sir, 1778 - 1829 (1st Baronet, physicist) 1
Dyson, Frank Watson, Sir, 1868 - 1939 (Knight, astronomer) 1
Fallows, Fearon, c1788 - 1831 (astronomer) 1
Gill, David, Sir, 1843 - 1914 (Knight, astronomer) 1
Gould, Benjamin Apthorp, 1824 - 1896 (astronomer) 1
Grubb, Howard, Sir, 1844 - 1931 (Knight, scientist) 1
Hall, Basil, 1788 - 1844 (Captain Royal Navy, author) 1
Harrison, John, 1693 - 1776 (horologist) 1
Herschel, John Frederick William, Sir, 1792 - 1871 (Knight, astronomer) 1
Herschel, John, 1837 - 1921 (Colonel, surveyor and astronomer) 1
Herschel, William, Sir, 1738 - 1822 (Knight, astronomer and musician) 1
Hind, John Russell, 1823 - 1895 (astronomer) 1
Huggins, William, Sir, 1824 - 1910 (Knight, astronomer) 1
Kater, Henry, 1777 - 1835 (geodesist and metrologist) 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
Lockyer, Joseph Norman, Sir, 1836 - 1920 (Knight, astronomer) 1
Lubbock, John William, Sir, 1803 - 1865 (3rd Baronet, astronomer and banker) 1
Newcomb, Simon, 1835 - 1909 (astronomer) 1
Newton, Isaac, Sir, 1642 - 1727 (Knight, natural philosopher and mathematician) 1
Parsons, William, 1800 - 1867 (3rd Earl of Rosse, astronomer) 1
Pickering, Edward Charles, 1846 - 1919 (astronomer and physicist) 1
Pond, John, 1767 - 1836 (astronomer) 1
Pound, James, 1669 - 1724 (clergyman) 1
Pritchard, Charles, 1808 - 1893 (headmaster and astronomer) 1
Proctor, Richard Anthony, 1837 - 1888 (astronomer and science writer) 1
Quetelet, Lambert (Adolphe-Jacques (1796-1874) astronomer, statistician and sociologist) 1
Royal Astronomical Society 1
Royal Society 1
Sabine, Edward, Sir, 1788 - 1883 (Knight, army officer and physicist) 1
Smyth, Charles Piazzi, 1819 - 1900 (astronomer) 1
Spottiswoode, William, 1825 - 1883 (mathematician and physicist) 1
Stokes, George Gabriel, Sir, 1819 - 1903 (1st Baronet, physicist) 1
Stone, Edward James, 1831 - 1897 (astronomer) 1
Struve, Otto Wilhelm, 1819 - 1905 (astronomer) 1
Tennant, James Francis, 1829 - 1915 (soldier and astronomer) 1
Tiarks, Johann Ludwig, 1789 - 1837 (astronomer and surveyor) 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
Walker, Charles Vincent, 1812 - 1882 (electrical engineer) 1
Young, Charles Augustus, 1834 - 1908 (astronomer) 1
Young, Thomas, 1773 - 1829 (physician, physicist and egyptologist) 1
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