Correspondence on visitor admissions, 1855 - 1860
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, questionnaires for visitors, and instructions to assistants to receive visitors. The correspondents include J. Washington, J. Field, W.H. Sykes, J.W. Lubbock, B.A. Gould, J.C. Adams, J.R. Hind, J.E. Grey, J.A. Brown, J.D. Forbes, R. Fitzroy, J. Challis, W. Spottiswoode, J. Lee, Lord Wrottesley, G. Everest, O.M. Mitchel, P.A. Secchi, J.T.R. Robinson, J.B. Pentland, L.A. Quetelet, A.A. de la Rive, A.D. Bache, C.V. Walker, J. Glaisher, C.T. Bright, W. Huggins, C.B. Vignoles, W.H. Smyth, C. Pritchard, E. Dunkin, W. De La Rue, D.T. Ansted, R.W. Thomson, J.S. Pakington, R.M. Bromley, J. Jones, F. Madden, J.W. Cunningham, J.P. Gassiot, J. Penn and T. Hankey.
Dates
- Creation: 1855 - 1860
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
F2/1
Finding aid date
2006-01-06 11:55:36+00:00
Subject
- Rue, Warren De La, 1815 - 1889 (chemist and astronomer) (Person)
- Admiralty (Organization)
- Adams, John Couch, 1819-1892 (astronomer) (Person)
- Challis, James, 1803 - 1882 (astronomer and physicist) (Person)
- Dunkin, Edwin, 1821 - 1898 (astronomer) (Person)
- Glaisher, James, 1809 - 1903 (astronomer) (Person)
- Gould, Benjamin Apthorp, 1824 - 1896 (astronomer) (Person)
- Hind, John Russell, 1823 - 1895 (astronomer) (Person)
- Huggins, William, Sir, 1824 - 1910 (Knight, astronomer) (Person)
- Pritchard, Charles, 1808 - 1893 (headmaster and astronomer) (Person)
- Quetelet, Lambert (Adolphe-Jacques (1796-1874) astronomer, statistician and sociologist) (Person)
- Robinson, John Thomas Romney, 1792 - 1882 (astronomer and physicist) (Person)
- Secchi, Pietro Angelo, 1818 - 1878 (astronomer) (Person)
- Smyth, William Henry, 1788 - 1865 (Admiral, scientist and antiquary) (Person)
- Vignoles, Charles Blacker, 1793 - 1875 (civil engineer) (Person)
- Walker, Charles Vincent, 1812 - 1882 (electrical engineer) (Person)
- Wrottesley, John, 1798 - 1867 (2nd Baron Wrottesley, landowner and astronomer) (Person)
- Lubbock, John William, Sir, 1803 - 1865 (3rd Baronet, astronomer and banker) (Person)
- Mitchel, Ormsby MacKnight, 1809 - 1862 (astronomer) (Person)
- Spottiswoode, William, 1825 - 1883 (mathematician and physicist) (Person)
- Lee, John, 1783 - 1866 (antiquary and astronomer) (Person)
- Washington, John, 1800 - 1863 (Rear Admiral, hydrographer) (Person)
- Fitzroy, Robert, 1805 - 1865 (hydrographer and meteorologist) (Person)
- Everest, George, Sir, 1790 - 1866 (Knight, military engineer) (Person)
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