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Correspondence on visitor admissions, 1835 - 1848

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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 6/706
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, and instructions to assistants to receive guests. The correspondents include C. Wood, F. Beaufort, J. Barrow, S.H. Herbert, H.T.C. Corry, H.G. Ward, R.S. Dundas, J.G. Children, C.W. Pasley, H.C. Schumacher, J.F. Encke, J.W. Lubbock, T. Henderson, W.R....
Dates: 1835 - 1848
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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Dr Thomas Young's Vouchers, 1824 - 1828

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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 14/20: 783-912
Scope and Contents From the File:

Vouchers of Dr Thomas Young for payments to tradesmen and others. Also includes occasional correspondence.

Dates: 1824 - 1828
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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Dr Thomas Young's Vouchers, 1821 - 1822

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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 14/19: 331-415
Scope and Contents From the File:

Vouchers of John Pond and Dr Thomas Young for payments to tradesmen and others.

Dates: 1821 - 1822
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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Bensley, Thomas, 1759 - 1835 (printer) 2
Brown, Thomas, fl1809 - 1828 (computer) 2
Chinnery, J F, fl1821 - 1829 (custom house agent) 2
Dunkin, William, fl1815 - 1828 (computer) 2
Edwards, Eliza, fl1815 - 1829 (computer) 2
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Herschel, John Frederick William, Sir, 1792 - 1871 (Knight, astronomer) 2
James, Nicholas, fl1799 - 1828 (computer and schoolmaster) 2
Jenkins, Henry, fl1819 - 1828 (computer) 2
Longman and Dickinson 2
Martyn, Richard, fl1808 - 1828 (computer) 2
Taylor, Thomas Glanville, 1804 - 1848 (astronomer) 2
Taylor, Thomas J, 1772 (assistant at Royal Observatory) 2
Young, Thomas, 1773 - 1829 (physician, physicist and egyptologist) 2
Adams, John Quincy, 1767 - 1848 (President of the United States) 1
Admiralty 1
Babbage, Charles, 1791 - 1871 (mathematician) 1
Baily, Francis, 1774 - 1844 (stockbroker and astronomer) 1
Basire, James, 1730 - 1802 (engraver) 1
Beaufort, Francis, Sir, 1774 - 1857 (Knight, Rear Admiral and hydrographer) 1
Bessel, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1784 - 1846 (astronomer and mathematician) 1
Brooke, Charles, 1804 - 1879 (surgeon and inventor of measuring instruments) 1
Carey, George, fl1821 - 1824 (teacher of mathematics) 1
Cubitt, William, Sir, 1785 - 1861 (Knight, civil engineer) 1
Dundas, Richard Saunders, Sir, 1802 - 1861 (Knight, Vice Admiral) 1
Encke, Johann Franz, 1791 - 1865 (astronomer) 1
Everest, George, Sir, 1790 - 1866 (Knight, military engineer) 1
Faraday, Michael, 1791 - 1867 (natural philosopher) 1
Fisher, George, 1794 - 1873 (astronomer) 1
Fitzroy, Robert, 1805 - 1865 (hydrographer and meteorologist) 1
Foster, Henry, 1796 - 1831 (Commander Royal Navy, geophysicist) 1
Glaisher, James, 1809 - 1903 (astronomer) 1
Gould, Benjamin Apthorp, 1824 - 1896 (astronomer) 1
Hamilton, William Rowan, Sir, 1805 - 1865 (Knight, mathematician) 1
Hind, John Russell, 1823 - 1895 (astronomer) 1
Johnson, Manuel John, 1805 - 1859 (astronomer) 1
Jones, Thomas, 1775 - 1852 (maker of scientific instruments) 1
Kater, Henry, 1777 - 1835 (geodesist and metrologist) 1
Lubbock, John William, Sir, 1803 - 1865 (3rd Baronet, astronomer and banker) 1
Meikle, Henry, fl1818 - 1820 (computer) 1
Mitchel, Ormsby MacKnight, 1809 - 1862 (astronomer) 1
Morgan, Augustus de, 1806 - 1871 (mathematician) 1
Murchison, Roderick Impey, Sir, 1792 - 1871 (1st Baronet, geologist) 1
Newman, John, 1783 - 1860 (maker of scientific instruments) 1
Nicol, William, 1777 - 1857 (printer) 1
Ramsey, Joshua, fl1826 - 1829 (bricklayer and builder) 1
Santini, Giovanni, 1787 - 1877 (astronomer) 1
Schumacher, Heinrich Christian, 1780 - 1850 (astronomer) 1
Sheepshanks, Richard, 1794 - 1855 (astronomer) 1
Smyth, William Henry, 1788 - 1865 (Admiral, scientist and antiquary) 1
Stratford, William Samuel, ?1791 - 1853 (naval officer and astronomer) 1
Struve, Friedrich Georg Wilhelm, 1793 - 1864 (astronomer) 1
Verrier, Urbain Jean Joseph Le, 1811 - 1877 (astronomer) 1
Wheatstone, Charles, Sir, 1802 - 1875 (Knight, developer of telegraphy) 1
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