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
- 1850
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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
- Adams, L, fl1800 (petitioner to the Board of Longitude)
- Beaufort, Francis, Sir, 1774 - 1857 (Knight, Rear Admiral and hydrographer)
- Beke, Charles Tilstone, 1800 - 1874 (Abyssinian explorer)
- Biot, Jean (Baptiste (1774-1862) physicist)
- Bishop, George, 1785 - 1861 (astronomer)
- Christie, Samuel Hunter, 1784 - 1865 (mathematician)
- Colby, Thomas Frederick, 1784 - 1852 (Major General, Director of Ordnance Survey)
- Cubitt, William, Sir, 1785 - 1861 (Knight, civil engineer)
- Denison, William Thomas, Sir, 1804 - 1871 (Knight, army officer and colonial governor)
- Forbes, James David, 1809 - 1868 (natural philosopher)
- Gould, Benjamin Apthorp, 1824 - 1896 (astronomer)
- Henslow, John Stevens, 1796 - 1861 (botanist and Church of England clergyman)
- Herschel, John Frederick William, Sir, 1792 - 1871 (Knight, astronomer)
- Johnson, Manuel John, 1805 - 1859 (astronomer)
- Lee, John, 1783 - 1866 (antiquary and astronomer)
- Morgan, Augustus de, 1806 - 1871 (mathematician)
- Parsons, William, 1800 - 1867 (3rd Earl of Rosse, astronomer)
- Pritchard, Charles, 1808 - 1893 (headmaster and astronomer)
- Quetelet, Lambert (Adolphe-Jacques (1796-1874) astronomer, statistician and sociologist)
- Sabine, Edward, Sir, 1788 - 1883 (Knight, army officer and physicist)
- Santini, Giovanni, 1787 - 1877 (astronomer)
- Schumacher, Heinrich Christian, 1780 - 1850 (astronomer)
- Sedgwick, Adam, 1785 - 1873 (geologist)
- Sheepshanks, Richard, 1794 - 1855 (astronomer)
- Smyth, Charles Piazzi, 1819 - 1900 (astronomer)
- Smyth, William Henry, 1788 - 1865 (Admiral, scientist and antiquary)
- Stephenson, Robert, 1803 - 1859 (civil engineer)
- Stokes, George Gabriel, Sir, 1819 - 1903 (1st Baronet, physicist)
- Stratford, William Samuel, ?1791 - 1853 (naval officer and astronomer)
- Struve, Friedrich Georg Wilhelm, 1793 - 1864 (astronomer)
- Struve, Otto Wilhelm, 1819 - 1905 (astronomer)
- Verrier, Urbain Jean Joseph Le, 1811 - 1877 (astronomer)
- Villarceau, Antoine (Joseph Yvon (1813-1883) astronomer and mathematician)
- Whewell, William, 1794 - 1866 (Master of Trinity College, Cambridge)
Creator
- From the Management Group: Royal Greenwich Observatory (Organization)
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