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Correspondence on visitor admissions, 1861 - 1866

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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 6/709
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, including visits by Prince Arthur and Louis Phillipe d'Orleans; questionnaires for visitors; and instructions to assistants to receive visitors. The correspondents include J. Washington, G.H. Richards, W.G. Romaine, R. Grant, W. Thomson, J.R. Hind, W....
Dates: 1861 - 1866
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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Letters from observatories, 1861 - 1865

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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 6/148
Scope and Contents Letters from various British and international observatories on filling vacancies at Sydney; requests for new instruments from Madras and other places; and the possible establishment of new observatories at Bristol and other locations. The correspondents include C.P. Smyth, J.C. Adams, R. Grant, N.R. Pogson, R.L.J. Ellery, O. Struve, W. De La Rue, F.A.T. Winnecke, Sir F. Galton, R.C. Carrington, A. de Morgan, J.C. Maxwell and T. Maclear. There is also a photograph of Fletcher's Observatory;...
Dates: 1861 - 1865
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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Grant, Robert, 1814 - 1892 (astronomer) 3
Maclear, Thomas, Sir, 1794 - 1879 (Knight, astronomer) 3
Smyth, Charles Piazzi, 1819 - 1900 (astronomer) 3
Adams, John Couch, 1819-1892 (astronomer) 2
Ellery, Robert Lewis John, 1827 - 1908 (astronomer) 2
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Fairbairn, William, Sir, 1789 - 1874 (1st Baronet, engineer) 2
Herschel, John Frederick William, Sir, 1792 - 1871 (Knight, astronomer) 2
Hind, John Russell, 1823 - 1895 (astronomer) 2
Lee, John, 1783 - 1866 (antiquary and astronomer) 2
Miller, William Hallowes, 1801 - 1880 (mineralogist) 2
Mitchel, Ormsby MacKnight, 1809 - 1862 (astronomer) 2
Morgan, Augustus de, 1806 - 1871 (mathematician) 2
Murchison, Roderick Impey, Sir, 1792 - 1871 (1st Baronet, geologist) 2
Roscoe, Harry Enfield, Sir, 1833 - 1915 (Knight, chemist and university administrator) 2
Santini, Giovanni, 1787 - 1877 (astronomer) 2
Secchi, Pietro Angelo, 1818 - 1878 (astronomer) 2
Smyth, William Henry, 1788 - 1865 (Admiral, scientist and antiquary) 2
Whewell, William, 1794 - 1866 (Master of Trinity College, Cambridge) 2
Adams, L, fl1800 (petitioner to the Board of Longitude) 1
Admiralty 1
Biot, Jean (Baptiste (1774-1862) physicist) 1
Bishop, George, 1785 - 1861 (astronomer) 1
Bond, George Phillips, 1825 - 1865 (astronomer) 1
Carrington, Richard Christopher, 1826 - 1875 (astronomer) 1
Challis, James, 1803 - 1882 (astronomer and physicist) 1
Clarke, Alexander Ross, 1828 - 1914 (Fellow of Royal Society) 1
Dawes, William Rutter, 1799 - 1868 (astronomer) 1
Denison, William Thomas, Sir, 1804 - 1871 (Knight, army officer and colonial governor) 1
Everett, Joseph David, 1831 - 1904 (scientist) 1
Forbes, James David, 1809 - 1868 (natural philosopher) 1
Galton, Francis, Sir, 1822 - 1911 (Knight, eugenicist) 1
Glaisher, James, 1809 - 1903 (astronomer) 1
Gould, Benjamin Apthorp, 1824 - 1896 (astronomer) 1
Johnson, Manuel John, 1805 - 1859 (astronomer) 1
Littrow, Jospeh Johann von, 1781 - 1840 (astronomer and mathematician) 1
Louis, Philippe, 1773 - 1850 (King of the French) 1
Main, Robert, 1808 - 1878 (astronomer) 1
Paget, Clarence Edward, Lord, 1811 - 1895 (Admiral, MP) 1
Parsons, William, 1800 - 1867 (3rd Earl of Rosse, astronomer) 1
Peters, Christian August Friedrich, 1806 - 1880 (astronomer) 1
Peters, Christian Heinrich Friedrich, 1813 - 1890 (astronomer) 1
Pogson, Norman Robert, 1829 - 1891 (astronomer) 1
Pritchard, Charles, 1808 - 1893 (headmaster and astronomer) 1
Quetelet, Lambert (Adolphe-Jacques (1796-1874) astronomer, statistician and sociologist) 1
Richards, George Henry, Sir, 1820 - 1896 (Knight, naval officer and hydrographer) 1
Romaine, William Govett, 1815 - 1893 (lawyer and civil servant) 1
Sabine, Edward, Sir, 1788 - 1883 (Knight, army officer and physicist) 1
Sheepshanks, Richard, 1794 - 1855 (astronomer) 1
Stone, Edward James, 1831 - 1897 (astronomer) 1
Strange, Alexander, 1818 - 1876 (army officer and scientist) 1
Thomson, William, 1824 - 1907 (Baron Kelvin, mathematician and physicist) 1
Todd, Charles, Sir, 1826 - 1910 (Knight, astronomer and meteorologist) 1
Tyndall, John, 1820 - 1893 (natural philosopher) 1
Varley, Cromwell Fleetwood, 1828 - 1883 (electrical engineer) 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
Winnecke, Friedrich August Theodor, 1835 - 1897 (astronomer) 1
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