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Manuscript and typescript copy of JA's diary of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association tour of Central Africa, Mauritius and Malta, particularly Tanganyika [later Tanzania], Rhodesia [later Zambia and Zimbabwe], Kenya, Mauritius and Malta. Includes notes of a talk with Lieutenant-General Sir Arthur Dowler, General Officer Commanding East Africa Command, on the use of African troops and notes on attitudes to Central African Federation.

Scope and Contents Comprising: with John Ziman, "Cycles in Social Behaviour", 1971; with Peter Willmott, "Social Class and the Peak-Load Traffic Problem in London", 1971; "Historical Changes in Social Cycles", 1972; "Parish Councils for Cities?", 1972; "Dilemmas in a New Europe", 1972; "A Dosser's Day", 1973; with Jorg Münstermann and Konrad Schacht, "Poverty in a West German Town", 1975; "For Richer, For Poorer. Some Problems of Low-Income Consumers", 1975; "SSRC - the First Years", 1975; "Suffer the...

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Note; by Charles Robert Darwin

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Book of rough calculations of astronomical observations and accounts of the daily rates of the timekeepers and their errors. Includes observations written on the back of a sales receipt [RGO 14/66/3: 97v] and on the back of a letter from Robert Brine to Lieutenant Flinders [RGO 14/66/3: 107].
Also included is a list of French phases compiled by Captain Flinders while imprisoned on the island of Mauritius [RGO 14/66/3: 56].

Scope and Contents Papers relating to the solar eclipse of 17 May 1901, seen in Mauritius and Sumatra:General correspondence concerning eclipse arrangements, travel and photographs, 1901.File of correspondence concerning insurance for instruments in Sumatra and Mauritius, including policies, 1901.File of correspondence with the Admiralty and Treasury, 1901, concerning requests for expenses, travelling arrangements, correspondence regarding the need for insurance and a report to the...

Scope and Contents (1) General correspondence regarding time balls, 1879-1893, including the following material:Correspondence regarding reprints, ordered by G.B. Airy in 1880, of articles from 'Nature', 1876, concerning the distribution of time signals.Correspondence, 1879-1880, regarding the Prussian Government's request for information on colonial time in South Africa, Canada, India, St Helena, Mauritius, Australia, Tasmania and New Zealand, and similar requests from the U.S. Hydrographic...

Scope and Contents Correspondence and related papers on the time signals at Portsmouth, Devonport and Sheerness and the tests, errors and running of time balls at Gravesend, Newcastle, Liverpool, Glasgow, Mauritius and the Cape of Good Hope. The papers include a newspaper cutting from 'The Gateshead Observer' on the importance of time balls; accounts and reports on the Post Office clocks; papers on the regulation of the London Bridge and Westminster Great Clock; and papers on the regulation of the Edinburgh...

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Broadcast by JA on his visit to Mauritius with the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association.

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Letter from Louis Sulphice Bouton to Charles Robert Darwin; written at Mauritius

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Letter from Louis Sulphice Bouton to Charles Robert Darwin; written at Mauritius

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Letter from Sir William James Lloyd Wharton to Charles Robert Darwin; written at [Mauritius] memo

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Letter from [Victor de Robillard] to Charles Robert Darwin; written at Mauritius

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Letter from [Victor de Robillard] to Charles Robert Darwin; written at Mauritius

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Scope and Contents Letters from various British and international observatories on filling vacancies, an enquiry into the transfer of Edinburgh Observatory, requests for new instruments, and the current state of work carried out at various centres. The correspondents include Sir H. Grubb, Lord Lindsay, C.P. Smyth, L. Mallet, Sir C.R. Markham, G.G. Stokes, N.R. Pogson, R.L.J. Ellery, W. De La Rue, C. Pritchard and F.A.T. Winnecke. There are numerous reports from observatories at Adelaide (1875), Dearbourne...

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Papers from the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association tour of Central Africa, Mauritius and Malta, August 1951, including: programmes for the visit; report on Mauritian troops in Egypt and Cyrenaica [Libya]; despatch by Sir Hilary Blood, Governor of Mauritius, on constitutional affairs; open letters on the revision of the constitution; letters to JA from various interest groups, including the Muslim community; briefing material, mainly on the economic situation.

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Correspondence on Mauritian affairs, with correspondents including: Sir Hilary Blood, Governor of Mauritius; 2nd Lord Mancroft.

Also includes: correspondence on individual cases referred by JA to Oliver Lyttelton [Secretary of State for the Colonies, later 1st Lord Chandos]; a memorandum from the Movement for Mauritian Unity on the political and economic situation.

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With remarks on the observations for latitude and longitude, and on the variation of the compass. A narrative account, made by Captain Matthew Flinders, on a voyage of the HMS Investigator in the years 1801-1803; with a note dated 1805.

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Includes: Conservative Research Department memorandum on the rise in the cost of living; memorandum by Leo Amery on the gold market; note on biography and history, by Basil Liddell Hart.

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Note; by Charles Robert Darwin

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Sporadic observations, including tables for the rate of Earnshaw’s timekeeper No. 520.

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With a note that he let the timekeeper run down and removed to Garden Prison.

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Made in HMS Investigator during a voyage of discovery to the South Sea in the years 1801-1805.

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Includes observations made at Mauritius.