Correspondence on visitor admissions, 1835 - 1848
Scope and Contents
Correspondence regarding admissions to visit the Royal Observatory. The volume is divided broadly into requests from the Admiralty to visit the Royal Observatory, introductions on behalf of visitors, personal requests to visit the Observatory, and instructions to assistants to receive guests. The correspondents include C. Wood, F. Beaufort, J. Barrow, S.H. Herbert, H.T.C. Corry, H.G. Ward, R.S. Dundas, J.G. Children, C.W. Pasley, H.C. Schumacher, J.F. Encke, J.W. Lubbock, T. Henderson, W.R. Hamilton, W.S. Stratford, T.M. Brisbane, B. Hall, M. Faraday, J. Parker, B. Lloyd, R. Sheepshanks, J. Locke, W. Pearson, T. Spring-Rice, M.I. Brunel, F.W. Bessel, T. Hodgkin, C. Babbage, T.G. Taylor, J.E. Gray, J.J. Sylvester, B. Donkin, J.F.W. Herschel, C. Wheatstone, G. Dollond, W.D. Saull, W.H. Sykes, F.W.H.A.V. Humboldt, F.R. Chesney, W. Cubitt, O.M. Mitchel, G.S.G. Santini, J.V. Lamont, G. Everest, A. de Morgan, J.Q. Adams, J.R. Hind, M.J. Johnson, W. Farr, O. Struve, U.J.J. Le Verrier, C. Manby, E. Sabine, P.M. Roget, W.H. Smyth, W. Wilkins, F. Baily, G.C. Taylor, W.H. Pepys, G. Peacock, J. Britton, R. Fitzroy, R Stapford, F.K. Hunt, J. Glaisher, B.A. Gould, C. Brooke, T. Galloway, R.I. Murchison, T. Jones and G. Fisher.
Dates
- 1835 - 1848
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Extent
1 volume(s) (1 volume)
Language of Materials
English
Former / Other Reference
F2/111
Finding aid date
2006-01-06 11:55:32+00:00
- Adams, John Quincy, 1767 - 1848 (President of the United States)
- Admiralty
- Babbage, Charles, 1791 - 1871 (mathematician)
- Baily, Francis, 1774 - 1844 (stockbroker and astronomer)
- Beaufort, Francis, Sir, 1774 - 1857 (Knight, Rear Admiral and hydrographer)
- Bessel, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1784 - 1846 (astronomer and mathematician)
- Brooke, Charles, 1804 - 1879 (surgeon and inventor of measuring instruments)
- Cubitt, William, Sir, 1785 - 1861 (Knight, civil engineer)
- Dollond, George, 1774 - 1852 (maker of optical and scientific instruments)
- Dundas, Richard Saunders, Sir, 1802 - 1861 (Knight, Vice Admiral)
- Encke, Johann Franz, 1791 - 1865 (astronomer)
- Everest, George, Sir, 1790 - 1866 (Knight, military engineer)
- Faraday, Michael, 1791 - 1867 (natural philosopher)
- Fisher, George, 1794 - 1873 (astronomer)
- Fitzroy, Robert, 1805 - 1865 (hydrographer and meteorologist)
- Glaisher, James, 1809 - 1903 (astronomer)
- Gould, Benjamin Apthorp, 1824 - 1896 (astronomer)
- Hamilton, William Rowan, Sir, 1805 - 1865 (Knight, mathematician)
- Herschel, John Frederick William, Sir, 1792 - 1871 (Knight, astronomer)
- Hind, John Russell, 1823 - 1895 (astronomer)
- Johnson, Manuel John, 1805 - 1859 (astronomer)
- Lubbock, John William, Sir, 1803 - 1865 (3rd Baronet, astronomer and banker)
- Mitchel, Ormsby MacKnight, 1809 - 1862 (astronomer)
- Morgan, Augustus de, 1806 - 1871 (mathematician)
- Murchison, Roderick Impey, Sir, 1792 - 1871 (1st Baronet, geologist)
- Sabine, Edward, Sir, 1788 - 1883 (Knight, army officer and physicist)
- Santini, Giovanni, 1787 - 1877 (astronomer)
- Schumacher, Heinrich Christian, 1780 - 1850 (astronomer)
- Sheepshanks, Richard, 1794 - 1855 (astronomer)
- Smyth, William Henry, 1788 - 1865 (Admiral, scientist and antiquary)
- Stratford, William Samuel, ?1791 - 1853 (naval officer and astronomer)
- Struve, Friedrich Georg Wilhelm, 1793 - 1864 (astronomer)
- Taylor, Thomas J, 1772 (assistant at Royal Observatory)
- Verrier, Urbain Jean Joseph Le, 1811 - 1877 (astronomer)
- Wheatstone, Charles, Sir, 1802 - 1875 (Knight, developer of telegraphy)
Creator
- From the Management Group: Royal Greenwich Observatory (Organization)
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