Marine navigation
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Admiralty papers on chronometers, 1825 - 1830
Admiralty papers sent to Pond concerning the fitting out of H M Ships with chronometers.
Correspondence on chronometers, 1821 - 1835
A Royal Observatory letter book containing copies of outgoing correspondence concerning chronometers. Some of the letters are addressed to chronometer makers. Inverted at the back is a record of the letters received.
Correspondence with the Admiralty, 1821 - 1826
Correspondence between the Admiralty Office and the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, requesting the loan of chronometers for H M Ships. The principal recipient is John Pond; the principal correspondent is John Barrow. Other correspondents include John Croker, Richard S. Dundas, G. Smith, John Franklin and Sir William Edward Parry.