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Correspondence on geodesy, 1862 - 1868

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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 6/423
Scope and Contents Correspondence on geodesy with related papers. The correspondents include H. James, W. De La Rue, C. Pritchard, B.A. Gould, O. Struve, F.A.T. Winnecke, C.F. Varley, W.G. Armstrong, J.T. Chance, W. Smyth, A.R. Clarke, R.L.J. Ellery, J.J.V. Littrow, A. d'Abbadie and C.V. Walker. There is material concerning experiments to find the Earth's density; a paper on a geological survey of Britain; drawings of two portable transit instruments and a zenith sector; departmental orders for a...
Dates: 1862 - 1868
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 with scientific societies, 1865 - 1868

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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 6/412
Scope and Contents Correspondence with various scientific societies, with related papers. There are notices and council minutes for the British Association; reports of the Kew Committee; the report of the committee wishing to publish K.L.C. Rümker's stellar observations; papers relating to W.R. Birt's lunar committee; W. Thomson's report on tidal observations; W.R. Grove's address to the 1866 convention; and J.D. Forbes' address to the 1867 convention. Other articles include a description of the Kew...
Dates: 1865 - 1868
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 scientific papers, 1860 - 1863

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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 6/476
Scope and Contents Correspondence and printed papers on astrology, chemistry, electricity, galvanism, geology and optics. The correspondents include A. de Morgan, F. Faraday, C.V. Walker, J.V. Lamont, Lord Wrottesley, W.H. Preece, H. Lloyd, C.F. Varley, P.A. Secchi, J.P. Gassiot, B. Stewart, W. Siemens, E.W. Brayley, A. Sedgwick, J. Gillis, W. De La Rue, B.C. Brodie, J.T. Chance, H.E. Roscoe, G.G. Stokes, T. Belt, L. Horner, W. Bowman, J.F.W. Herschel and A.S. Herschel. There is a printed paper on earth...
Dates: 1860 - 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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Miscellaneous scientific papers, 1873 - 1875

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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 6/487
Scope and Contents Miscellaneous scientific correspondence and papers, including correspondence on the tensile strength of metals; A.R. Clarke on the elasticity of brass; W. De La Rue on the stratified discharge of electricity; drawings of electrical appliances; a paper titled 'the Great Lighting Inductorium'; R. Owen's paper on fossil reptilia of South Africa; a paper by the Eastbourne Natural History Society 'on the sinking of the South Coast of England'; W. Ackland's views on the training of opticians;...
Dates: 1873 - 1875
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 scientific papers, 1879 - 1887

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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 6/491
Scope and Contents Miscellaneous scientific works and routine instructions, including a paper by C.S. Benson on geometry as a science; a piece on the transit of Venus in 'Bell's Weekly Messenger'; writing in an exercise book by J. Gillespie on the motion of the Earth; laws of rotation; minutes of the Paris conference on standards for electrical units, 1884; 'the new electrical era in science' by G.W. Royston-Pigott from 'The Eastbourne Standard'; various earthquakes; M.A. Cornu's optical achromation and...
Dates: 1879 - 1887
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 telegraphs, 1863 - 1868

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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 6/479
Scope and Contents Papers on scientific matters relating principally to telegraphs, including descriptions of the Bessemer Process; articles from the 'Reader and the Scientific Review' by W.F. Cooke on the invention of the electric telegraph; papers on galvanic currents by C. Brooke; 'The Telegrapher' on a constant galvanic battery; tests by J.C. Clark on submarine cables; 'Atlantic Telescopes' by W.R. Grove; alterations of a transit level by an earthquake; trials of navy telescopes; spectrum apparatus used at...
Dates: 1863 - 1868
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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Walker, Charles Vincent, 1812 - 1882 (electrical engineer) 5
Huggins, William, Sir, 1824 - 1910 (Knight, astronomer) 3
Tyndall, John, 1820 - 1893 (natural philosopher) 3
Varley, Cromwell Fleetwood, 1828 - 1883 (electrical engineer) 3
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Littrow, Jospeh Johann von, 1781 - 1840 (astronomer and mathematician) 2
Morgan, Augustus de, 1806 - 1871 (mathematician) 2
Pritchard, Charles, 1808 - 1893 (headmaster and astronomer) 2
Roscoe, Harry Enfield, Sir, 1833 - 1915 (Knight, chemist and university administrator) 2
Secchi, Pietro Angelo, 1818 - 1878 (astronomer) 2
Siemens, Charles William, Sir, 1823 - 1883 (Knight, metallurgist and electrical engineer) 2
Smyth, William Henry, 1788 - 1865 (Admiral, scientist and antiquary) 2
Stokes, George Gabriel, Sir, 1819 - 1903 (1st Baronet, physicist) 2
Struve, Otto Wilhelm, 1819 - 1905 (astronomer) 2
Wrottesley, John, 1798 - 1867 (2nd Baron Wrottesley, landowner and astronomer) 2
Adams, L, fl1800 (petitioner to the Board of Longitude) 1
Aeronautical Society of Great Britain 1
Alnwick Scientific and Mechanical Institution 1
Archaeological Institute 1
Batavian Society of Experimental Philosophy 1
Baxendell, Joseph, 1815 - 1887 (meteorologist and astronomer) 1
Birt, William Radcliff, 1804 - 1881 (astronomer) 1
Christie, William Henry Mahoney, Sir, 1845 - 1922 (Knight, astronomer) 1
Danish Society 1
Dundas, Richard Saunders, Sir, 1802 - 1861 (Knight, Vice Admiral) 1
Ellery, Robert Lewis John, 1827 - 1908 (astronomer) 1
Everett, Joseph David, 1831 - 1904 (scientist) 1
Faraday, Michael, 1791 - 1867 (natural philosopher) 1
Glaisher, James, 1809 - 1903 (astronomer) 1
Gould, Benjamin Apthorp, 1824 - 1896 (astronomer) 1
Institution of Hydronomical and Nautical Engineers 1
Langley, Samuel Pierpont, 1834 - 1906 (astronomer, physicist and aeronautics pioneer) 1
Lloyd, Humphrey, 1800 - 1881 (physicist and university administrator) 1
Main, Robert, 1808 - 1878 (astronomer) 1
Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society 1
Royal Institution of Great Britain 1
Royal Observatory, Kew 1
Rümker, George Friedrich Wilhem, 1832 - 1900 (astronomer) 1
Rümker, Karl Ludwig Christian, 1788 - 1862 (astronomer) 1
Sedgwick, Adam, 1785-1873 (geologist) 1
South London Working Men's College 1
Spottiswoode, William, 1825 - 1883 (mathematician and physicist) 1
Stewart, Balfour, 1828 - 1887 (physicist and meteorologist) 1
Stone, Edward James, 1831 - 1897 (astronomer) 1
Thomson, William, 1824 - 1907 (Baron Kelvin, mathematician and physicist) 1
Tyneside Naturalists' Field Club 1
University of Greenwich. School of Science 1
Winnecke, Friedrich August Theodor, 1835 - 1897 (astronomer) 1
Young, Charles Augustus, 1834 - 1908 (astronomer) 1
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