Miscellaneous correspondence, 1873 - 1875
Scope and Contents
Airy's miscellaneous correspondence with, among others, J.C. Adams, A.V. Auwers, E. de Beaumont, C.T. Beke, Sir D. Brewster, B.C. Brodie, A d'Abbadie, W. De La Rue, A. de Morgan, G.B. Donati, E.J.A. Gautier, B.A. Gould, W.R. Hamilton, P.A. Hansen, C. Hansteen, J.F.W. Herschel, J.N. Lockyer, J.H. Malder, S. Newcomb, C. Pritchard, L.A. Quetelet, M. Sequin, D.A. Silveira, O. Struve and C.B. Vignoles. The papers include notices of the deaths of several eminent people, including non-scientists, and memoirs of Hooke, Harrocks, Rennie, Graham and others. There are also notices and letters about memorials.
Dates
- Creation: 1873 - 1875
Creator
- From the Management Group: Royal Greenwich Observatory (Organization)
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Extent
2 archive box(es) (2 boxes)
Language of Materials
English
Former / Other Reference
F4/16
Finding aid date
2006-01-06 11:42:18+00:00
Subject
- Rue, Warren De La, 1815 - 1889 (chemist and astronomer) (Person)
- Herschel, John Frederick William, Sir, 1792 - 1871 (Knight, 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)
- Gould, Benjamin Apthorp, 1824 - 1896 (astronomer) (Person)
- Hansen, Peter Andreas, 1795 - 1874 (astronomer) (Person)
- Lockyer, Joseph Norman, Sir, 1836 - 1920 (Knight, astronomer) (Person)
- Morgan, Augustus de, 1806 - 1871 (mathematician) (Person)
- Pritchard, Charles, 1808 - 1893 (headmaster and astronomer) (Person)
- Quetelet, Lambert (Adolphe-Jacques (1796-1874) astronomer, statistician and sociologist) (Person)
- Struve, Otto Wilhelm, 1819 - 1905 (astronomer) (Person)
- Vignoles, Charles Blacker, 1793 - 1875 (civil engineer) (Person)
- Hamilton, William Rowan, Sir, 1805 - 1865 (Knight, mathematician) (Person)
- Beke, Charles Tilstone, 1800 - 1874 (Abyssinian explorer) (Person)
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