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Item
Review of 'Worms' 'Bazaar': [1 col], 1881-11-02
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS DAR 226.1: 21
Scope and Contents
Printed; by Anon; written at London?
(Printed)
Dates:
1881-11-02
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Part:
High Risk material. Access restricted due to fragility.
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Review of 'Worms' 'Bookbuyer': [2 cols], 1881-11-01
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS DAR 226.1: 24
Scope and Contents
Printed; by Anon; written at London?
(Printed)
Dates:
1881-11-01
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Part:
High Risk material. Access restricted due to fragility.
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Rhinoceros sweats profusely from extreme terror, 1871-06-28
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS DAR 189: 57r
Scope and Contents
Note; by Charles Robert Darwin
(Note)
Dates:
1871-06-28
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Class:
Very fragile material - access may only be possible with support from specialist conservation staff. Please seek guidance.
Organization
Richard Dennis Gallery (Antique and Art Gallery) (fl 1960s-2010s) (United Kingdom)
Organization
Dates:
Existence: 1965 - 2010
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Richard Holt on perpetual motion, 1826 - 1827
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 14/54: 90-93
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:
1826 - 1827
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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Richard Judson's 'mad writing' on properties of the circle, 1807-09-19
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 14/54: 314-316
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:
1807-09-19
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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Robert Davison on perpetual motion, 1790-11-29
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 14/54: 75-76a
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:
1790-11-29
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).
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Robert Torrens on finding the longitude by celestial altitudes, 1828-07-22
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 14/35: 472-474
Scope and Contents
Letter from John Croker to Dr Thomas Young concerning a letter from Torrens; with a draft reply to Torrens from Young.
Dates:
1828-07-22
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).
Person
Rogers, Richard George, 1933-2021 (Baron Rogers of Riverside, Architect)
Person
Dates:
Existence: 1933 - 2021
Organization
Item
sample packet (dried flowers) "L[ythrum] ..."; secondary type: miscellaneous, 1842-05-20
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS DAR 142: 95
Scope and Contents
Letter from Hewett Cottrell Watson to Charles Robert Darwin; written at London
(Letter, miscellaneous)
Dates:
1842-05-20
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Class:
Very fragile material - access may only be possible with support from specialist conservation staff.
Item
sample packet (dried flowers) [?]; secondary type: miscellaneous, 1864-05-16
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS DAR 142: 94
Scope and Contents
Letter from Hewett Cottrell Watson to Charles Robert Darwin; written at London in with envelope
(Letter, miscellaneous)
Dates:
1864-05-16
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Class:
Very fragile material - access may only be possible with support from specialist conservation staff.
Item
Samuel Abbot Jr. on perpetual motion, 1823 - 1824
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 14/54: 4-10
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:
1823 - 1824
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).
Item
Samuel Parlour's description of an apparatus to render a telescope manageable on ship-board, 1824-10-18
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 14/30: 502-505
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:
1824-10-18
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).
Item
Samuel Topp on a disturbance in the magnetic needle, 1799 - 1800
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 14/42: 164-168
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:
1799 - 1800
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).
Person
Item
Sargeant's method using Polaris and Ursa Majoris, 1809 - 1828
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 14/37: 492-494
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:
1809 - 1828
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).
File
Scrapbook, 1917-09 - 1918-03
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/ESHR 3/7
Scope and Contents
This scrapbook largely covers Eleanor's time in Paris, before travelling back to London and later Scotland. Like other scrapbooks in the series, Eleanor combines reflections on her own experiences of the war with military battles which she notes on small pieces of paper on the right-hand side of her volume. Eleanor accompanies many of her typescript entries with postcards, photographs, newspaper clippings of the people and events mentioned.In her diary entries, Eleanor reflects...
Dates:
1917-09 - 1918-03
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Item
‘Second [and Third] Appendix to the Account of Massey's Patent Log, and Sounding Machine’, 1808
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 14/31: 84-93
Scope and Contents
The pamphlet, which was printed in London by William Savage, includes both a second and third appendix, and directions for using both machines. It includes testimonials by Admiral Sir George Montague, Peter Bruff, Michael Spratt, Maurilius Adolphus de Starck, Henry Hope, Courtenay Boyle, Earl St. Vincent, Charles Cotton, Captain William Bedford, L. Lukin, John Pynsent, Captain R.J. Neve, and Thomas Moore.
Dates:
1808
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).
Item
‘Second Appendix to the Account of Massey’s Patent Log, and Sounding Machine’, 1808
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 14/31: 94-99
Scope and Contents
The pamphlet, which was printed in London by Savage and Easingwood, includes testimonials by Admiral Sir George Montague, Peter Bruff, Michael Spratt, Maurilius Adolphus de Starck, Henry Hope, Courtenay Boyle, and Captain R.B. Vincent.
Dates:
1808
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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Short paper and letter from John Carr, 1825-12-14
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 14/41: 76-77
Scope and Contents
Sent to Dr Thomas Young
Dates:
1825-12-14
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).
Item
Sir Joseph Senhouse on a marine chair, 1796 - 1818
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 14/30: 470-492
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:
1796 - 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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Sketches of islands 'discovered', rough calculations and tables, 1791 - 1792
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 14/62: 71*r-150v
Scope and Contents
Set of rough astronomical calculations, with tables, notes, and sketches of islands ‘discovered’; the islands are unnamed, although reference points are sometimes given, such as ‘Island A’ [RGO 14/62: 141*v], or ‘Bay at C’ [RGO 14/62: 79v]. Interspersed among the notes are occasional doodles by Gooch [RGO 14/62: 88v], [RGO 14/62: 124r], and translations of [Polynesian] words [RGO 14/62: 124r], [RGO 14/62: 126-127], [RGO 14/62: 141*v].
Some pages are inverted in the volume.
Dates:
1791 - 1792
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).
Item
Sold for Miss B Lloyd, 1845-09-19
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS DAR 227.8: 41
Scope and Contents
Note; by Thomas Salt; written at London See found enclosed in DAR 227.6: 450
(Note)
Dates:
1845-09-19
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.
Item
Sold for Miss B Lloyd, 1846-01-09
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS DAR 227.8: 43
Scope and Contents
Note; by Thomas Salt; written at London See found enclosed in DAR 227.6: 452
(Note)
Dates:
1846-01-09
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.