Miscellaneous correspondence, 1862 - 1869
Scope and Contents
Airy's miscellaneous personal correspondence on scientific and non-scientific topics, including a great number of obituaries and memoirs of fellow scientists. The correspondents include C. Abbe, J.C. Adams, A.V. Auwers, G.P. Bond, A. Caswell, W.H.M. Christie, A. d'Abbadie, A. de Morgan, W. De La Rue, H.A.E.A. Fay, J.D. Forbes, W.J. Foerster, J.G. Galle, B.A. Gould, W. Huggins, W.R. Hamilton, P.A. Hansen, A.S. Herschel, J.F.W. Herschel, J.R. Hind, A.W.V. Hofmann, U.J.J. Le Verrier, J.H.V. Madler, C. Pritchard, L.A. Quetelet, H.E. Roscoe, Lord Rosse, C.P. Smyth, W.H. Smyth, M.F. Somerville, H. Spencer, G.G. Stokes, O. Struve, S. Alexander, W. Whewell and F.A.T. Winnecke. The papers include a piece by W. Denison on steel manufacture at Mysore; memorials for various deceased people; J. Lee's address to the voters of Buckinghamshire; an Italian scientific paper by G.A.A. Plana; two watercolours of sailors in uniform of 1780 and 1820, probably by W.H. Smyth; and portrait photographs of J.J. Astrand, C. Hansteen, R. Luther, C. Todd and J.A. Wagner.
Dates
- Creation: 1862 - 1869
Creator
- From the Management Group: Royal Greenwich Observatory (Organization)
Conditions Governing Access
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Extent
3 archive box(es) (3 boxes)
Language of Materials
English
Italian
Former / Other Reference
F4/14
Finding aid date
2006-01-06 11:42:15+00:00
Subject
- Christie, William Henry Mahoney, Sir, 1845 - 1922 (Knight, astronomer) (Person)
- Herschel, John Frederick William, Sir, 1792 - 1871 (Knight, astronomer) (Person)
- Verrier, Urbain Jean Joseph Le, 1811 - 1877 (astronomer) (Person)
- Adams, L, fl1800 (petitioner to the Board of Longitude) (Person)
- Adams, John Couch, 1819-1892 (astronomer) (Person)
- Auwers, Arthur Julius Georg Friedrich von, 1838 - 1915 (astronomer) (Person)
- Denison, William Thomas, Sir, 1804 - 1871 (Knight, army officer and colonial governor) (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)
- Huggins, William, Sir, 1824 - 1910 (Knight, 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)
- Roscoe, Harry Enfield, Sir, 1833 - 1915 (Knight, chemist and university administrator) (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)
- Struve, Otto Wilhelm, 1819 - 1905 (astronomer) (Person)
- Todd, Charles, Sir, 1826 - 1910 (Knight, astronomer and meteorologist) (Person)
- Whewell, William, 1794 - 1866 (Master of Trinity College, Cambridge) (Person)
- Winnecke, Friedrich August Theodor, 1835 - 1897 (astronomer) (Person)
- Bond, George Phillips, 1825 - 1865 (astronomer) (Person)
- Plana, Giovanni Antonio Amedeo, 1781 - 1864 (astronomer and mathematician) (Person)
- Hamilton, William Rowan, Sir, 1805 - 1865 (Knight, mathematician) (Person)
- Lee, John, 1783 - 1866 (antiquary and astronomer) (Person)
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