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Essay chapter in which Joseph Shee criticises the Board of Longitude, 1818
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 14/40: 465-471
Scope and Contents
The chapter is entitled ‘Of epochs and of the opposition made to them by such people as enjoy the title of Astronomers, when no Astronomy can be had out of them’. Shee is critical of the Board of Longitude and of their reception of his work, asking, for example, ‘Pray, who has authorised you to govern the Celestial Bodies’ [RGO 14/40: 466r] and comparing his own treatment by the Board to the ‘inhumane’ treatment received by Copernicus [RGO 14/40: 468r]. Marked ‘51’, the essay is numbered...
Dates:
1818
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Essay chapter in which Joseph Shee criticises the Board of Longitude, 1818
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 14/40: 471-478
Scope and Contents
Shee outlines his encounters with the Board of Longitude from October 1816 and their treatment of him, which caused him to ask for the return of his papers despite being offered funds to continue with his work. He also discusses Harrison’s lunar observations and says that he had discovered that the lunar tables were founded upon an erroneous supposition which meant that longitude could not be determined by them [RGO 14/40: 474]. He refers to himself as ‘the only true longitude discoverer...
Dates:
1818
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Examples of Brazill's longitude method, 1817
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 14/38: 446-447
Scope and Contents
From the Item:
Two letters, with examples.
Dates:
1817
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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Royal Greenwich Observatory Archives
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Papers of the Board of Longitude
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Correspondence regarding methods and instruments used to establish longitude and the use of chronometers at sea
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J. Brazill on finding longitude by the variation of the magnetic and true poles
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Expense sheets for the trigonometrical survey between London and Paris, 1822
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 14/16: 330-333
Scope and Contents
From the File:
The accounts of printers and publishers for Board of Longitude publications, with miscellaneous accounts.
Dates:
1822
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Explanation of an optical instrument, 1817-11-29
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 14/36: 75
Scope and Contents
From the Item:
Includes letters from Hawkes and from Captain F.G. Dickens and Rev. S.W. Paul who wrote to Thomas Hurd on Hawkes' behalf.
Dates:
1817-11-29
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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Royal Greenwich Observatory Archives
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Papers of the Board of Longitude
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Correspondence regarding methods of establishing longitude by Jupiter's satellites, the planets and fixed stars
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Correspondence on John Hawkes' reflecting telescope for observing Jupiter's satellites at sea
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Explanation of the polar compass constructed by William Casson and John Minto, 1805
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 14/42: 219-221
Scope and Contents
From the File:
Correspondence regarding the effects of magnetic variation on the mariner's compass, the use of magnetic variation to establish longitude and the cause of magnetic variation.
Dates:
1805
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
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Explanation of the Solometer or Pencil for Ascertaining the Situation of Place, 1821-01-26
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 14/40: 351
Scope and Contents
Sent by Lester to the Board of Longitude, providing details on the technical construction of his invention, the Solometer.
Dates:
1821-01-26
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
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Extract from a report of the Committee of Instruments and Proposals, 1820-04-20
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 14/48: 211
Scope and Contents
Concerning estimates received from Troughton, Dollond and Jones for instruments for the Cape Observatory.
Dates:
1820-04-20
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
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Extract from a work by Arthur Hodge, 1814
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 14/39: 173-180
Scope and Contents
An extract from 'Commerce and Freedom' regarding a boat with wheels, with drawings of the same.
Dates:
1814
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Extract of a letter from Fearon Fallows, 1827-02-12
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 14/35: 458-459
Scope and Contents
From the Item:
Two letters from Fallows to John Barrow, and two related notes from Barrow to Dr Young.
Dates:
1827-02-12
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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Royal Greenwich Observatory Archives
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Papers of the Board of Longitude
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Correspondence regarding methods of establishing longitude by lunar methods other than lunar distances
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Fearon Fallows on finding the longitude by the passage of the moon over the meridian
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Extract of a letter from Fearon Fallows to J.W. Croker, 1828-03-22
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 14/48: 77
Scope and Contents
Requesting stationary, copy books and copies of papers by Professor Woodhouse on Dollond's transit instrument.
Dates:
1828-03-22
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
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F. Roche's method of finding the longitude by calculation and the quadrature of the circle, 1818
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 14/54: 353-359a
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The first part of collection is comprised of papers concerning the internal affairs of the Board of Longitude, including the granting of awards, accounts, minutes, committee papers, petitions and memorials, the loan of instruments, publications and the payment of staff. These are followed by a wide range of papers relating to the Board's work, concerning clocks, chronometers and other instruments; longitude and latitude; magnetic variation; schemes and inventions; tables; pendulum...
Dates:
1818
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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FitzRoy and Darwin, 1831-36 [Clay]: 8pp, 1912-01-01 - 1912-12-31
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS DAR 235: 5
Scope and Contents
Printed; by Sir Francis Darwin; written at London reprint, reset from letter to 'Nature' 22 February
(Printed)
Dates:
1912-01-01 - 1912-12-31
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Some material in the Darwin archive is not available because it is unfit for production and access to some very fragile material may only be possible with support from specialist conservation staff. Please see descriptions for further details.
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Flimsy of letter from Hore-Belisha to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, 1936-01-09
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/HOBE 4/19
Scope and Contents
Letter to Neville Chamberlain about London street improvement with estimated expenditure for a provisional list of overdue improvements.
Dates:
1936-01-09
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge. Individual closures of files are indicated in the catalogue.
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Francis Xavier Brosius' method of finding the latitude by double altitudes of the Sun, 1817-11-17
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 14/41: 50-56
Scope and Contents
Letter and proposal, sent to Captain Thomas Hurd.
Dates:
1817-11-17
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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'Free examination of Darwin's treatise on the origin of species and of its American reviewers' [Trübner; Ticknor & Fields]: 55pp (reset from 'Atlantic Monthly' July - October 1860), 1861-01-01 - 1861-12-31
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS DAR 133.7: 1
Scope and Contents
Printed; by Asa Gray; written at London / Boston
(Printed)
Dates:
1861-01-01 - 1861-12-31
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Some material in the Darwin archive is not available because it is unfit for production and access to some very fragile material may only be possible with support from specialist conservation staff. Please see descriptions for further details.
Series
From Albert Edward Sammons [Violinist], Bayswater
Series
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7973/S/3
Scope and Contents
Suggesting Dent's attendance at a rehearsal of a piece by [Antonio] Scontrino
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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From Arthur Hayden Parry, Golders Green, 1917 (Circa, undated)
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7973/P/22
Scope and Contents
Eddie [Marsh] has got him transferred to London; grateful for Timmy's address; feels fit and well
Dates:
1917 (Circa, undated)
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Series
From Beverley Nichols [Author], Bryanston St, 20 Nov. 1917
Series
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7973/N/7
Scope and Contents
A meeting with Harley Trott, who gave Nichols 'three very abandoned pictures'
Dates:
20 Nov. 1917
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Series
From Caroline Fox to Lady Callcott, Little Holland House, [Kensington], 1840 (Circa, undated, 'Sunday')
Series
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8189/25
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
In the following correspondence, which mostly relates to the various aspects of Pamplin's business career, are represented many of the leading botanists of the middle decades of the nineteenth century. A similar, though larger, collection is in the Archives Department of the University of Wales, Bangor (Pamplin Papers); and other letters, diaries and notebooks are held at the National Library of Wales (MSS 7492-7509). The following letters are mounted on paper, frequently two letters to a...
Dates:
1840 (Circa, undated, 'Sunday')
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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From Charles Greenwood, London, 9 Jan. 1824
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8194/29
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
The following letters were mostly written by two of Whittaker's Cambridge friends: Thomas Greenwood, a fellow-Johnian, who was called to the bar (1817) and became reader in history at the University of Durham (1833); and William Whewell, afterwards Master of Trinity. There are also four letters from Greenwood's brother Charles, a London businessman.
Dates:
9 Jan. 1824
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
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From Charles Greenwood, Westminster, 6 Apr. 1825
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8194/30
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
The following letters were mostly written by two of Whittaker's Cambridge friends: Thomas Greenwood, a fellow-Johnian, who was called to the bar (1817) and became reader in history at the University of Durham (1833); and William Whewell, afterwards Master of Trinity. There are also four letters from Greenwood's brother Charles, a London businessman.
Dates:
6 Apr. 1825
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
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From Edward Forster, Woodford, 24 Jan. 1842
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8184/6
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Eagle was a keen botanist, with a particular interest in mosses and lichens, which are the subject of most of the present correspondence. After Eagle's death his collection of mosses was bought by Sir Henry Bunbury (1778-1860), 7th Baronet, of Barton Hall near Bury (Add.8184/42). Some or all of Eagle's botanical correspondence seems to have passed to his fellow Bury botanist, Edmund Skepper (1825-67). Skepper's widow gave the letters of William Wilson listed below (and probably also the...
Dates:
24 Jan. 1842
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
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From E.J. Dent to P.J. Chester J. Laidlaw, Marble Arch, 31 Aug. 1919
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7973/P/133
Scope and Contents
Has been busy rehearsing at Glastonbury; a trip through the Cotswolds; theatre at Stratford; a successful Glastonbury Festival; 'Celticism'; Rutland Boughton; a meeting with George Bernard Shaw: 'a distinctly dandified old gentleman ... He talks incessantly; he is never boring, for he generally talks the most complete nonsense.' Letter returned, endorsed: 'UK / Demob / 31.12.19'
Dates:
31 Aug. 1919
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
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From Florence, Lady Alwyne Compton, Dover St, 12 Sep. 1903
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7973/App/7
Scope and Contents
Dent's present is much appreciated; humorous comments on his latest letter; their journey home; Countess Colleoni's address
Dates:
12 Sep. 1903
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
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