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
- Creation: 1861 - 1866
Creator
- From the Management Group: Royal Greenwich Observatory (Organization)
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
Subject
- Rue, Warren De La, 1815 - 1889 (chemist and astronomer) (Person)
- Admiralty (Organization)
- Herschel, John Frederick William, Sir, 1792 - 1871 (Knight, astronomer) (Person)
- Stone, Edward James, 1831 - 1897 (astronomer) (Person)
- Dawes, William Rutter, 1799 - 1868 (astronomer) (Person)
- Glaisher, James, 1809 - 1903 (astronomer) (Person)
- Hind, John Russell, 1823 - 1895 (astronomer) (Person)
- Maclear, Thomas, Sir, 1794 - 1879 (Knight, astronomer) (Person)
- Morgan, Augustus de, 1806 - 1871 (mathematician) (Person)
- Murchison, Roderick Impey, Sir, 1792 - 1871 (1st Baronet, geologist) (Person)
- Peters, Christian August Friedrich, 1806 - 1880 (astronomer) (Person)
- Roscoe, Harry Enfield, Sir, 1833 - 1915 (Knight, chemist and university administrator) (Person)
- Todd, Charles, Sir, 1826 - 1910 (Knight, astronomer and meteorologist) (Person)
- Varley, Cromwell Fleetwood, 1828 - 1883 (electrical engineer) (Person)
- Vignoles, Charles Blacker, 1793 - 1875 (civil engineer) (Person)
- Bond, George Phillips, 1825 - 1865 (astronomer) (Person)
- Grant, Robert, 1814 - 1892 (astronomer) (Person)
- Strange, Alexander, 1818 - 1876 (army officer and scientist) (Person)
- Fairbairn, William, Sir, 1789 - 1874 (1st Baronet, engineer) (Person)
- Washington, John, 1800 - 1863 (Rear Admiral, hydrographer) (Person)
- Clarke, Alexander Ross, 1828 - 1914 (Fellow of Royal Society) (Person)
- Struve, Friedrich Georg Wilhelm, 1793 - 1864 (astronomer) (Person)
- Richards, George Henry, Sir, 1820 - 1896 (Knight, naval officer and hydrographer) (Person)
- Romaine, William Govett, 1815 - 1893 (lawyer and civil servant) (Person)
- Thomson, William, 1824 - 1907 (Baron Kelvin, mathematician and physicist) (Person)
- Louis, Philippe, 1773 - 1850 (King of the French) (Person)
- Paget, Clarence Edward, Lord, 1811 - 1895 (Admiral, MP) (Person)
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