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Letter from Henry Browse to Sir Joseph Banks, 1814-11-28
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 14/38: 310-311
Scope and Contents
From the Item:
Six letters; includes a letter from the Board of Longitude to Browse outlining their objections to his plan.
Dates:
1814-11-28
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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Henry Browse's machine to measure longitude by means of the distance sailed
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Letter from Henry Browse to Sir Joseph Banks, 1815-02-21
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 14/38: 312-313
Scope and Contents
Concerning a model of his machine for ascertaining longitude at sea, which he had sent by the Devonshire coach.
Dates:
1815-02-21
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
/
Royal Greenwich Observatory Archives
/
Papers of the Board of Longitude
/
Correspondence regarding methods and instruments used to establish longitude and the use of chronometers at sea
/
Henry Browse's machine to measure longitude by means of the distance sailed
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Letter from Henry [Bynn] to Dr Thomas Young, 1826-07-20
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 14/55: 31-31a
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-file:
With an index of names.
Dates:
1826-07-20
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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Letter from Henry Colburn to Robert FitzRoy; written at London See [on previous item], copy in hand 7, 1837-09-22
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS DAR 147: 44b
Scope and Contents
Letter from Henry Colburn to Robert FitzRoy; written at London See [on previous item], copy in hand 7
(Letter)
Dates:
1837-09-22
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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Letter from Henry Croaker to Dr Thomas Young, 1819-06-14
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 14/39: 95-96
Scope and Contents
Concerning his invention of a mechanism to demonstrate the motion of the sun, moon and tides. Includes a drawing and calculations.
Dates:
1819-06-14
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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Letter from Henry Croaker to Dr Thomas Young, 1819
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 14/39: 99-100
Scope and Contents
Containing extracts of an 84 verse poem by Croaker.
Dates:
1819
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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Letter from Henry Croaker to Dr Thomas Young, 1819-09-16
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 14/39: 101-102
Scope and Contents
In which Croaker refers to ideas shown to him 'by dreams'.
Dates:
1819-09-16
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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Letter from Henry Croaker to Dr Thomas Young, 1819-10-08
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 14/39: 103
Scope and Contents
In which Croaker threatens to present his observations on longitude to 'a foreign board' unless given an immediate answer on their worth.
Dates:
1819-10-08
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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Letter from Henry Croaker to Dr Thomas Young, 1820-04-09
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 14/39: 104-105
Scope and Contents
The letter begins with a table entitled 'truth demonstrated on the laws of equity from Alla to George the Fourth England'.
Dates:
1820-04-09
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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Letter from Henry Croaker to Dr Thomas Young, 1820-06-18
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 14/39: 106-107
Scope and Contents
Containing further observations in verse, which came to him in a dream.
Dates:
1820-06-18
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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Letter from Henry Croaker to Dr Thomas Young, 1820-08-16
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 14/39: 108-109
Scope and Contents
Containing observations in verse.
Dates:
1820-08-16
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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Letter from Henry Croaker to the Board of Longitude, 1818-01-10
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 14/39: 75-79
Scope and Contents
Outlining his proposal for finding longitude. Includes a dial table, tables of longitude (for January to December 1818) and a drawing of 'a sun-dial on the perpetual motion'.
Dates:
1818-01-10
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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Letter from Henry Croaker to the Board of Longitude, 1819-04-09
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 14/39: 93-94
Scope and Contents
Outlining his proposal for finding longitude.
Dates:
1819-04-09
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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Letter from Henry Croaker to the Board of Longitude, 1820-09-25
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 14/39: 110-111
Scope and Contents
Concerning the movements of the heavenly bodies.
Dates:
1820-09-25
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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Letter from Henry Estwick to Sir Harry Parker, 1786-04-15
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 14/55: 60-60a
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-file :
With an index of names.
Dates:
1786-04-15
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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Letter from Henry Goulburn to John Wilson Croker, 1820-10-09
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 14/48: 40-41
Scope and Contents
Informing Croker that the Governor of the Cape had been instructed to allot a suitable piece of land for the purpose of erecting the Cape Observatory.
Dates:
1820-10-09
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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Letter from Henry Matthew to Charles Robert Darwin; written at London, 1831-02-02
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS DAR 204: 37
Scope and Contents
Letter from Henry Matthew to Charles Robert Darwin; written at London
(Letter)
Dates:
1831-02-02
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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Letter from Henry Ould to Sir Harry Parker, 1790
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 14/45: 263
Scope and Contents
From the Item:
Three letters from Henry Ould of Dartmouth, Newfoundland.
Dates:
1790
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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Letter from Henry Ould to the Board of Longitude, 1790-07-20
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 14/45: 261-262
Scope and Contents
Concerning the difficulties of taking observations in Newfoundland and his method of ascertaining an artificial horizon.
Dates:
1790-07-20
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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Letter from Henry Ould to the Board of Longitude, 1790-08-09
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 14/45: 264
Scope and Contents
From the Item:
Three letters from Henry Ould of Dartmouth, Newfoundland.
Dates:
1790-08-09
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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Letter from Herbert William Pearson to Sir George Howard Darwin; written at London, 1898-05-16
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS DAR 251: 4459
Scope and Contents
Letter from Herbert William Pearson to Sir George Howard Darwin; written at London
(Letter)
Dates:
1898-05-16
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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Letter from H.W. Ewington of Liverpool to the Board of Longitude, 1826-03-24
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 14/40: 591-591a
Scope and Contents
Requesting that they send him 'a few pounds in Confidence'; in return he promised to send a discovery of longitude within fourteen days.
Dates:
1826-03-24
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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Letter from J. Amory to Dr Thomas Young, 1823-06-04
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 14/24: 471
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-sub-file :
Two letters.
Dates:
1823-06-04
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
/
Royal Greenwich Observatory Archives
/
Papers of the Board of Longitude
/
Papers regarding the public trials and improvements of clocks and chronometers, 1784-1828
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Papers regarding miscellaneous chronometer improvements, 1790-1828
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J. Amory on keeping longitude by a pocket watch
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Letter from J. [Amory] to the Board of Longitude, 1823
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 14/24: 469-470
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-sub-file :
Two letters.
Dates:
1823
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
/
Royal Greenwich Observatory Archives
/
Papers of the Board of Longitude
/
Papers regarding the public trials and improvements of clocks and chronometers, 1784-1828
/
Papers regarding miscellaneous chronometer improvements, 1790-1828
/
J. Amory on keeping longitude by a pocket watch
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Letter from J. Brazill to Captain Thomas Hurd, 1817-07-10
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 14/38: 444
Scope and Contents
From the Item:
Two letters, with examples.
Dates:
1817-07-10
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
/
Royal Greenwich Observatory Archives
/
Papers of the Board of Longitude
/
Correspondence regarding methods and instruments used to establish longitude and the use of chronometers at sea
/
J. Brazill on finding longitude by the variation of the magnetic and true poles