Miscellaneous correspondence, 1860 - 1861
Scope and Contents
Airy's miscellaneous correspondence with, among others, J.B. Biot. C. Brooke, J. Challis, A. d'Abbadie, A. de Morgan, W. Denison, J.D. Forbes, J.P. Gassiot, B.A. Gould, J.F.W. Herschel, J. Hartnup, W. Lassell, J. Lee, U.J.J. Le Verrier, J.W. Lubbock, R. Main, Mr Manners, F. Maxwell, C. Pritchard, L.A. Quetelet, J.D. Runkle, P.A. Secchi, W.H. Smyth, F. Struve, C.B. Vignoles, G.H. Wiedemann, W. Whewell and Mr Whitbread. The papers include a notice of the death of L.A. Quetelet's wife.
Dates
- 1860 - 1861
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Extent
1 archive box(es) (1 box)
Language of Materials
English
Former / Other Reference
F4/12
Finding aid date
2006-01-06 11:42:10+00:00
- Adams, L, fl1800 (petitioner to the Board of Longitude)
- Biot, Jean (Baptiste (1774-1862) physicist)
- Brooke, Charles, 1804 - 1879 (surgeon and inventor of measuring instruments)
- Challis, James, 1803 - 1882 (astronomer and physicist)
- 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)
- Herschel, John Frederick William, Sir, 1792 - 1871 (Knight, astronomer)
- Lassell, William, 1799 - 1880 (astronomer)
- Lee, John, 1783 - 1866 (antiquary and astronomer)
- Lubbock, John William, Sir, 1803 - 1865 (3rd Baronet, astronomer and banker)
- Main, Robert, 1808 - 1878 (astronomer)
- Morgan, Augustus de, 1806 - 1871 (mathematician)
- Pritchard, Charles, 1808 - 1893 (headmaster and astronomer)
- Quetelet, Lambert (Adolphe-Jacques (1796-1874) astronomer, statistician and sociologist)
- Secchi, Pietro Angelo, 1818 - 1878 (astronomer)
- Smyth, William Henry, 1788 - 1865 (Admiral, scientist and antiquary)
- Struve, Friedrich Georg Wilhelm, 1793 - 1864 (astronomer)
- Struve, Otto Wilhelm, 1819 - 1905 (astronomer)
- Verrier, Urbain Jean Joseph Le, 1811 - 1877 (astronomer)
- Vignoles, Charles Blacker, 1793 - 1875 (civil engineer)
- Whewell, William, 1794 - 1866 (Master of Trinity College, Cambridge)
Creator
- From the Management Group: Royal Greenwich Observatory (Organization)
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