Mauritius
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 40 Collections and/or Records:
Item
Observations made on the schooner Cumberland, 1803-05-06 - 1803-10-07
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 14/65: 114v-121r
Scope and Contents
Travelling from Wreck Reefs via the Torres Strait to Timor and the Isle of France. Includes observations at Timor and at Port Louis.
Dates:
1803-05-06 - 1803-10-07
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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Observations made on the voyage, 1801-1805, 1801 - 1805
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 14/64: 107-211
Scope and Contents
The observations form a continuous run, with occasional headings based on location (reproduced here).
Dates:
1801 - 1805
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).
Sub-Series
Papers on determining galvanic longitudes, 1878 - 1888
Sub-Series
Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 6/640
Scope and Contents
Correspondence and papers concerning proposals and operations to determine, with the assistance of the Royal Observatory, the longitude of Lisbon, Leiden, the Cape Observatory, Gibraltar, places in Australia, New Zealand and Egypt, and Mauritius; and the difference in longitude between Malta and Bombay. The papers include errors of the Greenwich clock; observations of telegraph signals; J.W. Green's abstract of the Greenwich - Lisbon - South American longitudes; the exchange and summary of...
Dates:
1878 - 1888
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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Papers on meteorology, 1858 - 1860
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 6/702
Scope and Contents
Correspondence regarding, primarily, meteorological instruments and results, with related papers. The volume includes abstracts and explanations of weather conditions, 1858-1860, by J.M. Saxby; a description of a meteorograph by P.A. Secchi, with illustrations; a 'determination of index errors of the transit circle and altazimuth barometers'; experiments with Robinson's anenometer; notes on instruments and observations by J. Glaisher; correspondence with R. Fitzroy on weather reports;...
Dates:
1858 - 1860
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).
Sub-Series
Papers on transit of Venus, 1870 - 1882
Sub-Series
Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 6/275
Scope and Contents
Reports and charts on the stations for the transit of Venus, 1874. The reports include miscellaneous information on Egypt; the topography of New Zealand around Christchurch; the meteorology of New Zealand; the advantages of the province of Otago; the differences of longitudes in New Zealand; the longitude of Wellington; the advantage of Hobart Town; the topography and meteorology of Kerguelen Island; and the topography of Prince Edward and Crozet Islands and of the Sandwich Islands. The...
Dates:
1870 - 1882
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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Preface, 1805
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 14/64: 213v-214r
Scope and Contents
In which Flinders provides a brief account of his voyage on the HMS Investigator, of the shipwreck of the Porpoise, and of his imprisonment in Mauritius. Written while detained on Mauritius; with a note that this was unfinished on 10 May, 1805.
Dates:
1805
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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Printed prospectus for publishing the works of Major General Grant, 1803 - 1806
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 14/44: 118-119
Scope and Contents
From the Item:
These include two copies of a prospectus concerning Grant's astronomical and geographical works, and various proposals on finding longitude by using an instrument to determine the ship's rate of sailing.
Dates:
1803 - 1806
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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Publications on Mauritius, 1951-08
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEJ 1/2/55
Scope and Contents
Economic papers from the Department of Co-operation, Mauritius, presented to JA during the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association tour of Central Africa, Mauritius and Malta, August 1951.
Dates:
1951-08
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The majority of the papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge, though the constituency papers and some of the correspondence and political papers remain closed.
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Publications on Mauritius and Central Africa, 1951-08
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEJ 1/2/56
Scope and Contents
Economic reports and memoranda on Mauritius and Northern Rhodesia [later Zambia], presented to JA during the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association tour of Central Africa, Mauritius and Malta, August 1951.
Dates:
1951-08
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The majority of the papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge, though the constituency papers and some of the correspondence and political papers remain closed.
Item
Reductions of observations for ascertaining the latitude and longitude of places on the voyage, 1801 - 1805
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 14/65: 121v-126v
Scope and Contents
From the Item:
Made in HMS Investigator on a voyage of discovery to the South Sea in the years 1801-1805.
Dates:
1801 - 1805
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).
Series
RO and RGO Solar Plates Contact Prints, 1873-06-02 - 1972-08-02
Series
Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 51
Scope and Contents
The 1873-1917 prints in this class were made from glass plate negatives which are no longer extant. The plates were the product of a solar observation programme begun in 1873 at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich but are thought to have been destroyed in the First World War. The sequence of images is a continuation of RGO 67: Kew Observatory solar photographs (1858-72) and is itself continued by RGO 50: Royal Observatory Greenwich and Royal Greenwich Observatory, Herstmonceux Solar Plates...
Dates:
1873-06-02 - 1972-08-02
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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Sample packet: Flagellaria leaves; secondary type: miscellaneous, 1809-01-01 - 1882-04-30
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS DAR 157.1: 109
Scope and Contents
Letter from [unidentified] to Charles Robert Darwin; written at Mauritius
(Letter, miscellaneous)
Dates:
1809-01-01 - 1882-04-30
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.
Fonds
The Papers of Lord Francis-Williams
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0014/FRWS
Scope and Contents
Most of the collection comprises manuscripts and typescripts of books, articles, lectures and radio scripts by Lord Francis-Williams. There are also numerous newspaper cuttings of his articles and book reviews and copies of a number of his own published works. FRWS 7 contains papers relating to his visits to Mauritius and Mosul and FRWS 8 his correspondence from 1945-1972 including letters to and from Attlee, Beaverbrook, Churchill, Dalton, Eden, Gaitskell, Julian Huxley, Lord Reith and...
Dates:
1937 - 1970
Conditions Governing Access:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
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Transcript of interview: Brian Donaldson, 2007
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/DOHP 106
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
The programme comprises transcripts of interviews with senior diplomats.
Dates:
2007
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Material in this collection is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue.
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Transcript of interview: David Snoxell, 2007
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/DOHP 111
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
The programme comprises transcripts of interviews with senior diplomats.
Dates:
2007
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Material in this collection is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue.