Notes regarding additions to the catalogue of instruments since 1854, 1854-1861.

Correspondence concerning the receipt of presents sent to the Royal Observatory, 1855-1862.

Letters regarding loans to the Royal Observatory and returns, 1855-1861.

'Delivery of Presents' correspondence, 1859-1861.

Letters regarding loans from the Royal Observatory and returns, 1855-1861.

Correspondence on 'Transmission of parcels through the Royal Observatory', 1855-1861, including 'Astronomische Nachrichten', No. 897.

Reports to the Astronomer Royal by the assistants on the state of the instruments, 1855-1861.

Pages from a book titled 'Some Particulars respecting the principal Instruments at the Royal Observatory at Greenwich in the time of Dr Halley', 1836.

Notes concerning damage to the instruments in the Royal Observatory, 1855-1859.

Reports, catalogues and correspondence on the library, 1855-1861.

Correspondence regarding the transfer of the manuscripts of James Bradley's observations to Greenwich from the Bodleian Library, 1861.

Correspondence with the Revd Edleston, 1855, regarding a volume of John Flamsteed's manuscripts.

Letters concerning a paper by Mr Dunlop, 1855.

Instructions concerning the binding of papers and the arrangements of manuscripts, etc., 1855-1861.

List of alarms, etc., 13 March 1860.