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Correspondence on transit of Venus, 1868 - 1881

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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 6/271
Scope and Contents Correspondence relating to the transit of Venus, 1874. The correspondents include J.C. Adams, W. De La Rue (with a photograph), R.L.J. Ellery, B.A. Gould, R. Grant, Sir W. Huggins, Lord Lindsay, Sir D. Gill, Sir J.N. Lockyer, Sir T. Maclear, Dr R. Copeland, R. Main, E.J. Stone, C. Meldrum, N.R. Pogson, R.A. Proctor, H.C. Russel, C. Todd, Major Tennant, Dr Oppolzer, J.C. Houzeau, J.A.C. Oudemans, P.A.E. Laugier, A. d'Abbadie, C.E. Delaunay, U.J.J. Le Verrier, O. Struve, Dr P.J.E. Janssen, G....
Dates: 1868 - 1881
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 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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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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Adams, John Couch, 1819-1892 (astronomer) 2
Adams, L, fl1800 (petitioner to the Board of Longitude) 2
Gould, Benjamin Apthorp, 1824 - 1896 (astronomer) 2
Grant, Robert, 1814 - 1892 (astronomer) 2
Herschel, John Frederick William, Sir, 1792 - 1871 (Knight, astronomer) 2
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Hind, John Russell, 1823 - 1895 (astronomer) 2
Huggins, William, Sir, 1824 - 1910 (Knight, astronomer) 2
Morgan, Augustus de, 1806 - 1871 (mathematician) 2
Murchison, Roderick Impey, Sir, 1792 - 1871 (1st Baronet, geologist) 2
Stone, Edward James, 1831 - 1897 (astronomer) 2
Struve, Otto Wilhelm, 1819 - 1905 (astronomer) 2
Thomson, William, 1824 - 1907 (Baron Kelvin, mathematician and physicist) 2
Verrier, Urbain Jean Joseph Le, 1811 - 1877 (astronomer) 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
Board of Longitude 1
Bond, George Phillips, 1825 - 1865 (astronomer) 1
Challis, James, 1803 - 1882 (astronomer and physicist) 1
Clarke, Alexander Ross, 1828 - 1914 (Fellow of Royal Society) 1
Common, Andrew Ainslie, 1841 - 1903 (astronomer and astronomical photographer) 1
Darwin, George Howard, Sir, 1845 - 1912 (Knight, mathematician and geophysicist) 1
Dawes, William Rutter, 1799 - 1868 (astronomer) 1
Delaunay, Charles (Eugène (1816-1872) astronomer and mathematician) 1
Dunkin, Edwin, 1821 - 1898 (astronomer) 1
Ellery, Robert Lewis John, 1827 - 1908 (astronomer) 1
Encke, Johann Franz, 1791 - 1865 (astronomer) 1
Everest, George, Sir, 1790 - 1866 (Knight, military engineer) 1
Fairbairn, William, Sir, 1789 - 1874 (1st Baronet, engineer) 1
Gill, David, Sir, 1843 - 1914 (Knight, astronomer) 1
Glaisher, James, 1809 - 1903 (astronomer) 1
Herschel, William, Sir, 1738 - 1822 (Knight, astronomer and musician) 1
Knobel, Edward Ball, 1841 - 1930 (chemist and astronomer) 1
Lee, John, 1783 - 1866 (antiquary and astronomer) 1
Lindsay, James Ludovic, 1847 - 1913 (26th Earl of Crawford) 1
Lockyer, Joseph Norman, Sir, 1836 - 1920 (Knight, astronomer) 1
Louis, Philippe, 1773 - 1850 (King of the French) 1
Main, Robert, 1808 - 1878 (astronomer) 1
Oppolzer, Theodor Egon Ritter von, 1841 - 1886 (astronomer) 1
Paget, Clarence Edward, Lord, 1811 - 1895 (Admiral, MP) 1
Paris Observatory 1
Peters, Christian August Friedrich, 1806 - 1880 (astronomer) 1
Pogson, Norman Robert, 1829 - 1891 (astronomer) 1
Pritchard, Charles, 1808 - 1893 (headmaster and astronomer) 1
Richards, George Henry, Sir, 1820 - 1896 (Knight, naval officer and hydrographer) 1
Romaine, William Govett, 1815 - 1893 (lawyer and civil servant) 1
Roscoe, Harry Enfield, Sir, 1833 - 1915 (Knight, chemist and university administrator) 1
Royal Astronomical Society 1
Schumacher, Heinrich Christian, 1780 - 1850 (astronomer) 1
Secchi, Pietro Angelo, 1818 - 1878 (astronomer) 1
Sedgwick, Adam, 1785-1873 (geologist) 1
Sheepshanks, Richard, 1794 - 1855 (astronomer) 1
Smyth, Charles Piazzi, 1819 - 1900 (astronomer) 1
Stokes, George Gabriel, Sir, 1819 - 1903 (1st Baronet, physicist) 1
Strange, Alexander, 1818 - 1876 (army officer and scientist) 1
Struve, Friedrich Georg Wilhelm, 1793 - 1864 (astronomer) 1
Tennant, James Francis, 1829 - 1915 (soldier and astronomer) 1
Turner, Herbert Hall, 1861 - 1930 (astronomer and seismologist) 1
University of Cambridge 1
Varley, Cromwell Fleetwood, 1828 - 1883 (electrical engineer) 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
Young, Charles Augustus, 1834 - 1908 (astronomer) 1
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