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
- Creation: 1835 - 1848
Creator
- From the Management Group: Royal Greenwich Observatory (Organization)
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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
Subject
- Baily, Francis, 1774 - 1844 (stockbroker and astronomer) (Person)
- Sheepshanks, Richard, 1794 - 1855 (astronomer) (Person)
- Admiralty (Organization)
- Dollond, George, 1774 - 1852 (maker of optical and scientific instruments) (Person)
- Taylor, Thomas J, 1772 (assistant at Royal Observatory) (Person)
- Herschel, John Frederick William, Sir, 1792 - 1871 (Knight, astronomer) (Person)
- Schumacher, Heinrich Christian, 1780 - 1850 (astronomer) (Person)
- Verrier, Urbain Jean Joseph Le, 1811 - 1877 (astronomer) (Person)
- Beaufort, Francis, Sir, 1774 - 1857 (Knight, Rear Admiral and hydrographer) (Person)
- Bessel, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1784 - 1846 (astronomer and mathematician) (Person)
- Cubitt, William, Sir, 1785 - 1861 (Knight, civil engineer) (Person)
- Encke, Johann Franz, 1791 - 1865 (astronomer) (Person)
- Faraday, Michael, 1791 - 1867 (natural philosopher) (Person)
- Glaisher, James, 1809 - 1903 (astronomer) (Person)
- Gould, Benjamin Apthorp, 1824 - 1896 (astronomer) (Person)
- Hind, John Russell, 1823 - 1895 (astronomer) (Person)
- Johnson, Manuel John, 1805 - 1859 (astronomer) (Person)
- Morgan, Augustus de, 1806 - 1871 (mathematician) (Person)
- Murchison, Roderick Impey, Sir, 1792 - 1871 (1st Baronet, geologist) (Person)
- Sabine, Edward, Sir, 1788 - 1883 (Knight, army officer and physicist) (Person)
- Santini, Giovanni, 1787 - 1877 (astronomer) (Person)
- Smyth, William Henry, 1788 - 1865 (Admiral, scientist and antiquary) (Person)
- Stratford, William Samuel, ?1791 - 1853 (naval officer and astronomer) (Person)
- Lubbock, John William, Sir, 1803 - 1865 (3rd Baronet, astronomer and banker) (Person)
- Adams, John Quincy, 1767 - 1848 (President of the United States) (Person)
- Mitchel, Ormsby MacKnight, 1809 - 1862 (astronomer) (Person)
- Hamilton, William Rowan, Sir, 1805 - 1865 (Knight, mathematician) (Person)
- Babbage, Charles, 1791 - 1871 (mathematician) (Person)
- Fitzroy, Robert, 1805 - 1865 (hydrographer and meteorologist) (Person)
- Everest, George, Sir, 1790 - 1866 (Knight, military engineer) (Person)
- Dundas, Richard Saunders, Sir, 1802 - 1861 (Knight, Vice Admiral) (Person)
- Brooke, Charles, 1804 - 1879 (surgeon and inventor of measuring instruments) (Person)
- Struve, Friedrich Georg Wilhelm, 1793 - 1864 (astronomer) (Person)
- Fisher, George, 1794 - 1873 (astronomer) (Person)
- Wheatstone, Charles, Sir, 1802 - 1875 (Knight, developer of telegraphy) (Person)
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