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Photocopy of item from the holdings of the Royal Astronomical Society: Walter de la Rue's photograph album of the Total Eclipse, 18 July 1960, 1988-11-20

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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 35/185

Scope and Contents

From the Series:

Photographs, photocopies, photostats and microfilms of a wide range of papers relating to the Royal Observatory or to individuals or subjects connected to it. The majority of the material relates to Nevil Maskelyne. This includes a large set of Maskelyne's correspondence (RGO 35/3-96), including letters he received from French correspondents; correspondence of family members, including his brother, Captain Edmund Maskelyne, and his daughter, Margaret Maskelyne; and letters he sent to colleagues and friends, including a large set of letters to Sir Joseph Banks. There are account books kept under Maskelyne at the Royal Observatory (RGO 35/134-136) and a set of his volumes of miscellaneous papers (RGO 35/137-148). There is also a series of letters written by David Kinnebrook to his father David and other members of his family, 1794-1796, which describe Kinnebrook's life as Maskelyne's assistant at the Greenwich Observatory (RGO 35/97-128). The rest of the series includes, among other material, copies of the letters of Observatory staff and other correspondents, and a set of microfilms (RGO 35/171-184), including the papers of the Herschel family (RGO 35/170).

Dates

  • 1988-11-20

Conditions Governing Access

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).

Extent

53 page(s) : Paper

Language of Materials

English

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Acquired from P.D. Hingley of the Royal Astronomical Society Library in Nov. 1998

Date information

DateText: date of photocopies.

Finding aid date

2015-08-18 15:12:39+00:00

Creator

Repository Details

Part of the Cambridge University Library Repository

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