Miscellaneous correspondence, 1855 - 1856
Scope and Contents
Airy's personal correspondence on scientific and non-scientific matters with, among others, J.C. Adams, F. Beaufort, J.B. Biot, E.M. Brayley, R.C. Carrington, A. de Morgan, W. Denison, J.F. Encke, H.A.E.A. Fayé, J.D. Forbes, B.A. Gould, P.A. Hansen, J.F.W. Herschel, J.R. Hind, U.J.J. Le Verrier, J.S. Bowerbank, E. Loomis, O.M. Mitchel, R.I. Murchison, C.H.F. Peters, C. Pritchard, L.A. Quetelet, J. Richardson, G.S.G. Santini, P.A. Secchi, W.H. Smyth, C.P. Smyth, J. Sopwith, O. Struve, J. Tyndall, W. Whewell and Lord Wrottesley. The papers include pieces on academic institutions in Nancy, France; writing by A. de Morgan concerning Catherine Barton; material on railways in Australia, as printed in 'The Sydney Morning Herald'; papers on the discovery of Neptune; discussions by J.S. Henslow on the flood and the Bible; a portrait of an eminent German, possibly Humboldt; obituaries of J.F. Miller and R. Sheepshanks; and an engraving of a medal presented to Hampden.
Dates
- Creation: 1855 - 1856
Creator
- From the Management Group: Royal Greenwich Observatory (Organization)
Conditions Governing Access
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Extent
2 archive box(es) (2 boxes)
Language of Materials
English
Former / Other Reference
F4/9
Finding aid date
2006-01-06 11:42:03+00:00
Subject
- Sheepshanks, Richard, 1794 - 1855 (astronomer) (Person)
- Herschel, John Frederick William, Sir, 1792 - 1871 (Knight, astronomer) (Person)
- Verrier, Urbain Jean Joseph Le, 1811 - 1877 (astronomer) (Person)
- Adams, John Couch, 1819-1892 (astronomer) (Person)
- Beaufort, Francis, Sir, 1774 - 1857 (Knight, Rear Admiral and hydrographer) (Person)
- Biot, Jean (Baptiste (1774-1862) physicist) (Person)
- Carrington, Richard Christopher, 1826 - 1875 (astronomer) (Person)
- Denison, William Thomas, Sir, 1804 - 1871 (Knight, army officer and colonial governor) (Person)
- Encke, Johann Franz, 1791 - 1865 (astronomer) (Person)
- Fayé, Herve Auguste Etienne Albans, 1814 - 1902 (astronomer) (Person)
- Forbes, James David, 1809 - 1868 (natural philosopher) (Person)
- Gould, Benjamin Apthorp, 1824 - 1896 (astronomer) (Person)
- Hansen, Peter Andreas, 1795 - 1874 (astronomer) (Person)
- Hind, John Russell, 1823 - 1895 (astronomer) (Person)
- Morgan, Augustus de, 1806 - 1871 (mathematician) (Person)
- Murchison, Roderick Impey, Sir, 1792 - 1871 (1st Baronet, geologist) (Person)
- Peters, Christian Heinrich Friedrich, 1813 - 1890 (astronomer) (Person)
- Pritchard, Charles, 1808 - 1893 (headmaster and astronomer) (Person)
- Quetelet, Lambert (Adolphe-Jacques (1796-1874) astronomer, statistician and sociologist) (Person)
- Santini, Giovanni, 1787 - 1877 (astronomer) (Person)
- Secchi, Pietro Angelo, 1818 - 1878 (astronomer) (Person)
- Smyth, Charles Piazzi, 1819 - 1900 (astronomer) (Person)
- Smyth, William Henry, 1788 - 1865 (Admiral, scientist and antiquary) (Person)
- Struve, Otto Wilhelm, 1819 - 1905 (astronomer) (Person)
- Tyndall, John, 1820 - 1893 (natural philosopher) (Person)
- Whewell, William, 1794 - 1866 (Master of Trinity College, Cambridge) (Person)
- Wrottesley, John, 1798 - 1867 (2nd Baron Wrottesley, landowner and astronomer) (Person)
- Mitchel, Ormsby MacKnight, 1809 - 1862 (astronomer) (Person)
- Henslow, John Stevens, 1796 - 1861 (botanist and Church of England clergyman) (Person)
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