Durban
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
File
Correspondence on the Durban Observatory, 1881 - 1890
File
Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 15/194b
Scope and Contents
Letters regarding the founding of an observatory at Durban. Most of the correspondence is between D. Gill and R. Pett, but there is also some correspondence with Grubb of Belfast.
Dates:
1881 - 1890
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
Observations and calculations of longitude, 1854 - 1860
File
Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 6/114
Scope and Contents
Observations and calculations concerned chiefly with finding the longitudes of places, including Indonesia, Bombay, Port Natal and Port Elizabeth by Lieutenant Dayman, from observed occultations, star observations and solar eclipses during 1854-1855; and Fredericton, Canada, and Cambridge, U.S.A., by W.B. Jack and J.B. Toldervy, with correspondence on their longitudes. There are a few papers on the total eclipse over Australia, 4 April 1856, and maps of the paths of the total eclipse of the...
Dates:
1854 - 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).
Item
panorama from a distance, 1905-01-01 - 1905-12-31
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS DAR 238.8: 58
Scope and Contents
Photo of Durban oval mounted on strong card;
(Photo)
Dates:
1905-01-01 - 1905-12-31
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
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