Miscellaneous correspondence, 1850
Scope and Contents
Airy's miscellaneous correspondence with, among others, F. Beaufort, J.B. Biot, G. Bishop, P.H.L. von Boguslowski, S.H. Christie, T.F. Colby, W. Cubitt, A. d'Abbadie, A. de Morgan, W. Denison, J.D. Forbes, C.L. Gerling, B.A. Gould, J.S. Henslow, J.F.W. Herschel, M.J. Johnson, P. Kelland, J. Lee, U.J.J. Le Verrier, Mr Manners, G. Peacock, C. Pritchard, L.A. Quetelet, the Earl of Rosse, E. Sabine, E.S.C. Santini, H.C. Schumacher, A. Sedgwick, R. Sheepshanks, W.H. Smyth, C.P. Smyth, R. Stephenson, G.G. Stokes, W.S. Stratford, F.E.W.V. Struve, A. Stevenson, W. Whewell and Y. Villarceau. The papers include a printed letter from C. Beke criticising A. d'Abbadie, and a print of a picture of sailing ships.
Dates
- Creation: 1850
Creator
- From the Management Group: Royal Greenwich Observatory (Organization)
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Extent
1 archive box(es) (1 box)
Language of Materials
English
Former / Other Reference
F4/5
Finding aid date
2006-01-06 11:41:54+00:00
Subject
- Sheepshanks, Richard, 1794 - 1855 (astronomer) (Person)
- Herschel, John Frederick William, Sir, 1792 - 1871 (Knight, astronomer) (Person)
- Schumacher, Heinrich Christian, 1780 - 1850 (astronomer) (Person)
- Verrier, Urbain Jean Joseph Le, 1811 - 1877 (astronomer) (Person)
- Adams, L, fl1800 (petitioner to the Board of Longitude) (Person)
- Beaufort, Francis, Sir, 1774 - 1857 (Knight, Rear Admiral and hydrographer) (Person)
- Biot, Jean (Baptiste (1774-1862) physicist) (Person)
- Christie, Samuel Hunter, 1784 - 1865 (mathematician) (Person)
- Cubitt, William, Sir, 1785 - 1861 (Knight, civil engineer) (Person)
- Denison, William Thomas, Sir, 1804 - 1871 (Knight, army officer and colonial governor) (Person)
- Forbes, James David, 1809 - 1868 (natural philosopher) (Person)
- Gould, Benjamin Apthorp, 1824 - 1896 (astronomer) (Person)
- Johnson, Manuel John, 1805 - 1859 (astronomer) (Person)
- Morgan, Augustus de, 1806 - 1871 (mathematician) (Person)
- Parsons, William, 1800 - 1867 (3rd Earl of Rosse, astronomer) (Person)
- Pritchard, Charles, 1808 - 1893 (headmaster and astronomer) (Person)
- Quetelet, Lambert (Adolphe-Jacques (1796-1874) astronomer, statistician and sociologist) (Person)
- Sabine, Edward, Sir, 1788 - 1883 (Knight, army officer and physicist) (Person)
- Santini, Giovanni, 1787 - 1877 (astronomer) (Person)
- Smyth, Charles Piazzi, 1819 - 1900 (astronomer) (Person)
- Smyth, William Henry, 1788 - 1865 (Admiral, scientist and antiquary) (Person)
- Stokes, George Gabriel, Sir, 1819 - 1903 (1st Baronet, physicist) (Person)
- Stratford, William Samuel, ?1791 - 1853 (naval officer and astronomer) (Person)
- Struve, Otto Wilhelm, 1819 - 1905 (astronomer) (Person)
- Villarceau, Antoine (Joseph Yvon (1813-1883) astronomer and mathematician) (Person)
- Whewell, William, 1794 - 1866 (Master of Trinity College, Cambridge) (Person)
- Stephenson, Robert, 1803 - 1859 (civil engineer) (Person)
- Sedgwick, Adam, 1785-1873 (geologist) (Person)
- Henslow, John Stevens, 1796 - 1861 (botanist and Church of England clergyman) (Person)
- Lee, John, 1783 - 1866 (antiquary and astronomer) (Person)
- Bishop, George, 1785 - 1861 (astronomer) (Person)
- Beke, Charles Tilstone, 1800 - 1874 (Abyssinian explorer) (Person)
- Colby, Thomas Frederick, 1784 - 1852 (Major General, Director of Ordnance Survey) (Person)
- Struve, Friedrich Georg Wilhelm, 1793 - 1864 (astronomer) (Person)
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