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Captain [James] Cook, 1880 - 1930

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCS/XII/30
Scope and Contents

Reproduction of J.K. Sherwin's circa 1779 engraving.

Dates: 1880 - 1930
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: 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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Captain James Cook bicentenary plaque, 1968

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/ORCS.1.08
Scope and Contents

102 x 76 mm Wedgewood blue and white plaque with profile view of Cook. The reverse reads, 'Bicentenary of Cook’s First Voyage. 200 copies made for Maggs Bros. Ltd, 21st July 1968.'

Dates: 1968
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: 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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Confirmed minutes, 1780 - 1801

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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 14/6
Scope and Contents Minutes of Board of Longitude meetings regarding, among other matters, the rates of various chronometers; Charles Hutton's tables of products, powers and roots of natural numbers; the voyages of HMS 'Resolution' and HMS 'Discovery' and the examination of their log books; John Arnold's improvements to his watches; a suitable site for the Board of Longitude's instruments after the burning of the cupola of the Greenwich Hospital where they had been kept; improvements to reflecting telescopes;...
Dates: 1780 - 1801
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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Arnold, Christoph, 1650 - 1695 (farmer and astronomer) 1
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Banks, Joseph, Sir, 1743 - 1820 (Baronet, naturalist) 1
Blair, Robert, 1748 - 1828 (surgeon and maker of optical instruments) 1