Cape of Good Hope
Found in 90 Collections and/or Records:
Account of the errors of the time-keepers from mean time, Simons Bay, False Bay, Cape of Good Hope, 1801-10 - 1801-11
Observations made by John Crosley on his voyage to New Holland (Australia) on board HMS Investigator to carry out surveying.
Accounts of the daily rates of the time-keepers in Simons Bay, False Bay, Cape of Good Hope, 1801-10-21 - 1801-11-01
Observations made by John Crosley on his voyage to New Holland (Australia) on board HMS Investigator to carry out surveying.
Astronomical observations made at the town of the Cape of Good Hope, 1772-10-31 - 1772-11-16
The observations begin with a note on setting up his instruments on shore. Included are daily astronomical observations, observations for determining the variation of the magnetic needle, and observations of the rate of Clocks B and C, and of Watch No. 1.
Astronomical observations made between the Cape of Good Hope and New Holland, 1801-11 - 1801-12
The observations form a continuous run, with occasional headings based on location (reproduced here).
Cape Oxalis - one form which did set any seed in any case, 1809-01-01 - 1882-04-30
Note; by Charles Robert Darwin
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Computations of lunar distances in a voyage, 1772-06-07 - 1772-11-19
Computations relating to a voyage on an unknown ship (possibly an East Indiaman); handwritten onto printed observation tables. Entries are intermittent and cover days in June (approaching the Cape of Good Hope from the Indian Ocean), October (in the Atlantic Ocean) and November (in the mouth of the Straits of Dover). After folio 49 the remaining tables are blank.
Confirmed minutes, 1802 - 1823
Copy of a letter to James Inman concerning a chronometer for HMS Delight under Captain Hay, 1822-08-26
Copies of outgoing correspondence from Astronomer Royal, John Pond, and his assistant, Thomas Taylor, at the Royal Observatory. Some of the letters are addressed to chronometer makers. Note that correspondence to more than one person often appears on the same page.
Correspondence on standards, 1858 - 1862
Correspondence on tides and surveys, 1897 - 1906
Correspondence on tides and surveys, 1907 - 1923
Correspondence on time balls and signals, 1858 - 1860
Correspondence on transits of Venus, 1760 - 1769
Entries for October, 1772-10-01 - 1772-10-30
Equal altitudes of the sun, 1801-10 - 1801-11
Astronomical observations made on a shore near the Block House, Simons Bay, False Bay, Cape of Good Hope.
Extract of a letter from Fearon Fallows to J.W. Croker, 1828-03-22
Requesting stationary, copy books and copies of papers by Professor Woodhouse on Dollond's transit instrument.
Fair minutes, 1765 - 1828
Invertebrates-15 Note & Abstract, 1867-12-27
Mr Trimen says at Cape an Orthopteron - Pneumora in male alone whole body wonderfully distended with air
Note; by Charles Robert Darwin
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Journal of the voyage in the HMS Investigator, 1801-1802, 1795 - 1802-04-26
This is the first of three sections of the log book for the voyage; see also [RGO 14/64: 52r-97v] and [RGO 14/64: 99r-106r]. Also included here are unrelated pages from a voyage [of HMS Thetis?] dated 1795-1797.
Journal of voyage from Bengal, 1768 - 1769
Journal of voyage to Bombay, 1769 - 1770
Kew - Littoral Plants [annotated list], 1809-01-01 - 1882-04-30
Note; by Charles Robert Darwin
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Letter concerning a bill for a chronometer by Arnold purchased at the Cape of Good Hope by Captain Owen of HMS Leven, 1823-01-07
Sent from John Barrow to John Pond.
Letter concerning a bill for a chronometer by French purchased at the Cape of Good Hope by Captain Owen of HMS Leven, 1823-09-01
Sent from John Barrow to John Pond.
Letter concerning a chronometer by Arnold issued to Mr Henderson, astronomer at the Cape of Good Hope, 1832-01-16
Sent from Francis Beaufort to John Pond.