Correspondence with scientific societies, 1865 - 1868
Scope and Contents
Correspondence with various scientific societies, with related papers. There are notices and council minutes for the British Association; reports of the Kew Committee; the report of the committee wishing to publish K.L.C. Rümker's stellar observations; papers relating to W.R. Birt's lunar committee; W. Thomson's report on tidal observations; W.R. Grove's address to the 1866 convention; and J.D. Forbes' address to the 1867 convention. Other articles include a description of the Kew Observatory in 'The Engineer'; the programmes of the Royal Institution, Batavian Society and Danish Society; the foundation of the Aeronautical Society of Great Britain; the proceedings of the Institution of Hydronomical and Nautical Engineers; a report of the Greenwich School of Science from 'The Kentish Mercury'; the prospectus of the South London Working Men's College; a meeting of the Archaeological Institute; a report on the Alnwick Scientific and Mechanical Institution; R. Main's address to the Ashmolean Society; and notices of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society and the Tyneside Naturalists Field Club. The correspondents include G. Rümker, Lord Wrottesley, J.F.W. Herschel, W. De La Rue, J. Glaisher, J.T. Chance, C.V. Walker, J.S. Russell, G.G. Stokes, J. Baxendell, J.D. Everett, O. Struve, E.J.A. Gautier and J. Tyndall.
Dates
- Creation: 1865 - 1868
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
E2/12
Finding aid date
2006-01-06 11:43:17+00:00
Subject
- Rue, Warren De La, 1815 - 1889 (chemist and astronomer) (Person)
- Herschel, John Frederick William, Sir, 1792 - 1871 (Knight, astronomer) (Person)
- Baxendell, Joseph, 1815 - 1887 (meteorologist and astronomer) (Person)
- Birt, William Radcliff, 1804 - 1881 (astronomer) (Person)
- Chance, James Timmins, Sir, 1814 - 1902 (Knight, industrialist and lighthouse engineer) (Person)
- Everett, Joseph David, 1831 - 1904 (scientist) (Person)
- Forbes, James David, 1809 - 1868 (natural philosopher) (Person)
- Glaisher, James, 1809 - 1903 (astronomer) (Person)
- Main, Robert, 1808 - 1878 (astronomer) (Person)
- Rümker, George Friedrich Wilhem, 1832 - 1900 (astronomer) (Person)
- Stokes, George Gabriel, Sir, 1819 - 1903 (1st Baronet, physicist) (Person)
- Struve, Otto Wilhelm, 1819 - 1905 (astronomer) (Person)
- Tyndall, John, 1820 - 1893 (natural philosopher) (Person)
- Walker, Charles Vincent, 1812 - 1882 (electrical engineer) (Person)
- Wrottesley, John, 1798 - 1867 (2nd Baron Wrottesley, landowner and astronomer) (Person)
- Royal Observatory, Kew (Organization)
- Royal Institution of Great Britain (Organization)
- Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society (Organization)
- Tyneside Naturalists' Field Club (Organization)
- Batavian Society of Experimental Philosophy (Organization)
- Aeronautical Society of Great Britain (Organization)
- Institution of Hydronomical and Nautical Engineers (Organization)
- South London Working Men's College (Organization)
- Archaeological Institute (Organization)
- Alnwick Scientific and Mechanical Institution (Organization)
- Rümker, Karl Ludwig Christian, 1788 - 1862 (astronomer) (Person)
- Danish Society (Organization)
- University of Greenwich. School of Science (Organization)
- Thomson, William, 1824 - 1907 (Baron Kelvin, mathematician and physicist) (Person)
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