Correspondence on visitor admissions, 1861 - 1866
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, including visits by Prince Arthur and Louis Phillipe d'Orleans; questionnaires for visitors; and instructions to assistants to receive visitors. The correspondents include J. Washington, G.H. Richards, W.G. Romaine, R. Grant, W. Thomson, J.R. Hind, W. Fairbairn, T. Maclear, A.S. Herschel, C.B. Vignoles, O. Struve, J.F.W. Herschel, C.A.F. Peters, E.J. Stone, J. Glaisher, C. Todd, W. Siemens, C.F. Varley, A. Strange, C. Hansteen, A. de Morgan, C.E. Paget, A.R. Clarke, H.E. Roscoe, G.P. Bond, J.J. Anstrand, R.I. Murchison, W. De La Rue, C. Abbe, Louis Phillipe d'Orleans, R. Dawes, H.C. Elphinstone, A. Bryson, J. Yates and J. Vetch.
Dates
- 1861 - 1866
Conditions Governing Access
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Extent
1 volume(s) (1 volume)
Language of Materials
English
Former / Other Reference
F2/114
Finding aid date
2006-01-06 11:55:38+00:00
- Admiralty
- Bond, George Phillips, 1825 - 1865 (astronomer)
- Clarke, Alexander Ross, 1828 - 1914 (Fellow of Royal Society)
- Dawes, William Rutter, 1799 - 1868 (astronomer)
- Fairbairn, William, Sir, 1789 - 1874 (1st Baronet, engineer)
- Glaisher, James, 1809 - 1903 (astronomer)
- Grant, Robert, 1814 - 1892 (astronomer)
- Herschel, John Frederick William, Sir, 1792 - 1871 (Knight, astronomer)
- Hind, John Russell, 1823 - 1895 (astronomer)
- Louis, Philippe, 1773 - 1850 (King of the French)
- Maclear, Thomas, Sir, 1794 - 1879 (Knight, astronomer)
- Morgan, Augustus de, 1806 - 1871 (mathematician)
- Murchison, Roderick Impey, Sir, 1792 - 1871 (1st Baronet, geologist)
- Paget, Clarence Edward, Lord, 1811 - 1895 (Admiral, MP)
- Peters, Christian August Friedrich, 1806 - 1880 (astronomer)
- Richards, George Henry, Sir, 1820 - 1896 (Knight, naval officer and hydrographer)
- Romaine, William Govett, 1815 - 1893 (lawyer and civil servant)
- Roscoe, Harry Enfield, Sir, 1833 - 1915 (Knight, chemist and university administrator)
- Rue, Warren De La, 1815 - 1889 (chemist and astronomer)
- Stone, Edward James, 1831 - 1897 (astronomer)
- Strange, Alexander, 1818 - 1876 (army officer and scientist)
- Struve, Friedrich Georg Wilhelm, 1793 - 1864 (astronomer)
- Thomson, William, 1824 - 1907 (Baron Kelvin, mathematician and physicist)
- Todd, Charles, Sir, 1826 - 1910 (Knight, astronomer and meteorologist)
- Varley, Cromwell Fleetwood, 1828 - 1883 (electrical engineer)
- Vignoles, Charles Blacker, 1793 - 1875 (civil engineer)
- Washington, John, 1800 - 1863 (Rear Admiral, hydrographer)
Creator
- From the Management Group: Royal Greenwich Observatory (Organization)
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