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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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Miscellaneous correspondence, 1846 - 1897

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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 7/247
Scope and Contents (1) Letters regarding the existence of Neptune, 1846-1878Duplicate copies of collected correspondence on the investigations of J.C. Adams and U.J.J. Le Verrier into the existence of Neptune and in particular of the ensuing controversy over the name of the planet. There are also other letters concerning the minor planets and mathematical formula for their orbits, the Moon's equation and lunar acceleration. The correspondents include J.C. Adams, Sir George Airy, F.N.M. Arago, J....
Dates: 1846 - 1897
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, 1857 - 1859

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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 6/378
Scope and Contents Airy's miscellaneous correspondence, letters L-W. The correspondents include, among others, J. Lee, U.J.J. Le Verrier, T. Maclear, F. Maxwell, C. May, W.H. Miller, O.M. Mitchel, J.P. Nichol, G. Peacock, C.H.F. Peters, F. Petit, Mr Plarr, C. Pritchard, L.A. Quetelet, W. De La Rue, E. Sabine, G.S.G. Santini, P.A. Secchi, Miss Sheepshanks, W.H. Smyth, C.P. Smyth, F.G.W. Struve, J. Tyndall and W. Whewell. The papers include a printed circular on Madame Quetelet's death; circulars advertising...
Dates: 1857 - 1859
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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Adams, John Couch, 1819-1892 (astronomer) 3
Challis, James, 1803 - 1882 (astronomer and physicist) 3
Gould, Benjamin Apthorp, 1824 - 1896 (astronomer) 3
Hind, John Russell, 1823 - 1895 (astronomer) 3
Mitchel, Ormsby MacKnight, 1809 - 1862 (astronomer) 3
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Pritchard, Charles, 1808 - 1893 (headmaster and astronomer) 3
Secchi, Pietro Angelo, 1818 - 1878 (astronomer) 3
Smyth, Charles Piazzi, 1819 - 1900 (astronomer) 3
Smyth, William Henry, 1788 - 1865 (Admiral, scientist and antiquary) 3
Adams, L, fl1800 (petitioner to the Board of Longitude) 2
Dunkin, Edwin, 1821 - 1898 (astronomer) 2
Everest, George, Sir, 1790 - 1866 (Knight, military engineer) 2
Herschel, John Frederick William, Sir, 1792 - 1871 (Knight, astronomer) 2
Huggins, William, Sir, 1824 - 1910 (Knight, astronomer) 2
Maclear, Thomas, Sir, 1794 - 1879 (Knight, astronomer) 2
Miller, William Hallowes, 1801 - 1880 (mineralogist) 2
Morgan, Augustus de, 1806 - 1871 (mathematician) 2
Murchison, Roderick Impey, Sir, 1792 - 1871 (1st Baronet, geologist) 2
Quetelet, Lambert (Adolphe-Jacques (1796-1874) astronomer, statistician and sociologist) 2
Santini, Giovanni, 1787 - 1877 (astronomer) 2
Sheepshanks, Richard, 1794 - 1855 (astronomer) 2
Struve, Friedrich Georg Wilhelm, 1793 - 1864 (astronomer) 2
Verrier, Urbain Jean Joseph Le, 1811 - 1877 (astronomer) 2
Whewell, William, 1794 - 1866 (Master of Trinity College, Cambridge) 2
Admiralty 1
Airy, George Biddell, Sir, 1801 - 1892 (Knight, astronomer) 1
Arago, Dominique François Jean, 1786 - 1853 (physicist) 1
Auwers, Arthur Julius Georg Friedrich von, 1838 - 1915 (astronomer) 1
Ball, Robert Stawell, Sir, 1840 - 1913 (Knight, astronomer) 1
Biot, Jean (Baptiste (1774-1862) physicist) 1
Bishop, George, 1785 - 1861 (astronomer) 1
Board of Longitude 1
Common, Andrew Ainslie, 1841 - 1903 (astronomer and astronomical photographer) 1
Darwin, George Howard, Sir, 1845 - 1912 (Knight, mathematician and geophysicist) 1
Denison, William Thomas, Sir, 1804 - 1871 (Knight, army officer and colonial governor) 1
Ellery, Robert Lewis John, 1827 - 1908 (astronomer) 1
Encke, Johann Franz, 1791 - 1865 (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
Forbes, James David, 1809 - 1868 (natural philosopher) 1
Glaisher, James, 1809 - 1903 (astronomer) 1
Grant, Robert, 1814 - 1892 (astronomer) 1
Herschel, William, Sir, 1738 - 1822 (Knight, astronomer and musician) 1
Johnson, Manuel John, 1805 - 1859 (astronomer) 1
Knobel, Edward Ball, 1841 - 1930 (chemist and astronomer) 1
Littrow, Jospeh Johann von, 1781 - 1840 (astronomer and mathematician) 1
Lubbock, John William, Sir, 1803 - 1865 (3rd Baronet, astronomer and banker) 1
Main, Robert, 1808 - 1878 (astronomer) 1
Paris Observatory 1
Parsons, William, 1800 - 1867 (3rd Earl of Rosse, astronomer) 1
Peters, Christian Heinrich Friedrich, 1813 - 1890 (astronomer) 1
Robinson, John Thomas Romney, 1792 - 1882 (astronomer and physicist) 1
Roscoe, Harry Enfield, Sir, 1833 - 1915 (Knight, chemist and university administrator) 1
Royal Astronomical Society 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
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
Thomson, William, 1824 - 1907 (Baron Kelvin, mathematician and physicist) 1
Todd, Charles, Sir, 1826 - 1910 (Knight, astronomer and meteorologist) 1
Turner, Herbert Hall, 1861 - 1930 (astronomer and seismologist) 1
Tyndall, John, 1820 - 1893 (natural philosopher) 1
University of Cambridge 1
Vignoles, Charles Blacker, 1793 - 1875 (civil engineer) 1
Walker, Charles Vincent, 1812 - 1882 (electrical 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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