Papers on exhibitions, lectures and inquiries, 1875 - 1880
Scope and Contents
Correspondence and papers on exhibitions, lectures and inquiries. There is material concerning an exhibition of scientific apparatus at South Kensington Museum, with a layout of the Museum; a certificate for loaning instruments; regulations for exhibitors of the Brussels International Exhibition; an inquiry into the Meteorological Committee; a proposed Physical Observatory; the award of the Albert medal to Airy; a proposed science museum; Airy's lecture on 'the interior of the Earth at Cockermouth, Cumbria'; a map of Cumbrian Railways; Airy's evidence to the Tay Bridge Inquiry and H.C. Rolhery's inquiry report; and the case between the Attorney General and the Telephone Company. The correspondents include, among others, O. Struve, C.V. Walker, W.H.M. Christie, J.H. Dallmeyer, B. Stewart, W.B. Carpenter, F.N.M. Moigno, A.R. Clarke, A. d'Abbadie, G.G. Stokes, J. Tyndall and W.H. Preece.
Dates
- 1875 - 1880
Conditions Governing Access
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Extent
1 archive box(es) (1 box)
Language of Materials
English
Former / Other Reference
D1/13
Finding aid date
2006-01-06 11:44:40+00:00
- Adams, L, fl1800 (petitioner to the Board of Longitude)
- Carpenter, William Benjamin, 1813 - 1885 (naturalist)
- Christie, William Henry Mahoney, Sir, 1845 - 1922 (Knight, astronomer)
- Clarke, Alexander Ross, 1828 - 1914 (Fellow of Royal Society)
- Cumbria
- Dallmeyer, John Henry, 1830 - 1883 (optician)
- Stewart, Balfour, 1828 - 1887 (physicist and meteorologist)
- Stokes, George Gabriel, Sir, 1819 - 1903 (1st Baronet, physicist)
- Struve, Otto Wilhelm, 1819 - 1905 (astronomer)
- Tyndall, John, 1820 - 1893 (natural philosopher)
- Walker, Charles Vincent, 1812 - 1882 (electrical engineer)
Creator
- From the Management Group: Royal Greenwich Observatory (Organization)
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