Scope and Contents Correspondence for the preparation of expeditions to Spain and Sicily to observe the total solar eclipse, 21-22 December 1870. The correspondence with the Royal Society, Royal Astronomical Society, the Admiralty and the India Office includes letters from R.C. Carrington, G.G. Stokes, Sir J.N. Lockyer, A.C. Ranyard, W. Lassell, W. De La Rue, W. Huggins, C. Pritchard, Sir E. Sabine, Admiral G.H. Richards and H. Merivale. There are lists for those participating, the expeditions' accounts and...

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Sasha Moorsom Young was involved in the production of a BBC radio programme and a documentary film about Danilo Dolci, a social activist in Sicily.

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Written from HMS Goliath, including Hong Kong, Singapore, China, South Korea and Japan, the voyage home via Sri Lanka and the Suez Canal, and Sicily.

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Revised neat autograph copy of Leake’s travels in Sicily during the winter of 1807-1808.

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Mainly slides taken by Normanbrook on family holidays in the 1950s and 1960s, and on his official tours with the Prime Minister, Harold Macmillan, in the same period. Also includes some files on Normanbrook’s and other ex-Cabinet Secretaries’ response to the book by 1st Lord Moran [earlier Charles Wilson] about his time as Churchill's doctor, "The Struggle for Survival" and some personal papers.

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Written from HMS Repulse, HMS Canopus, HMS Goliath, HMS Albemarle, HMS King Alfred and from the British Embassy, Tokyo, including England, Northern Ireland, Ireland, Morocco, Gibraltar, Sri Lanka, China, Hong Kong, Japan, Singapore, Malta, Sicily and Italy.
With sketches.

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Includes: letters to Katharine, Lady Elmhirst, 1941-49; letters from Lady Elmhirst, 1942-43; family letters, 1909-59.

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The fact of extraordinary few peculiar plants in intertropical Africa / so wonderfully contrasted with S Africa

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Looking at Philippines Table in Edinburgh New Phil Journal

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Scope and Contents (1) Papers relating to the Geodetic AssociationLetter to the Admiralty concerning the Geodetic Association Conference in Rome, 1883.Correspondence with Colonel A.R. Clarke concerning the Rome conference, 1883.Letter to Dr Hirsch concerning resolutions passed at the Rome conference, 1883.Letter to Col. Donnelly concerning copies of the proceedings of the Rome conference, 1883.Telegram from Col. Donnelly stating that engineers are visiting him,...

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Correspondence and calculations concerning tides at Malta. The correspondents include W. Denison, F.A. Forel, F. Struve and H. Wild. There is also a nautical chart of Sicily and Malta, and a nautical chart of Valetta harbour.

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Two reports on sites tested in Europe:

1. 'Preliminary Report on the Climatic Conditions of Eastern Sicily' by M.G. Fracastoro, in Italian, with an English translation.

2. 'Astronomical Station in Southern Europe' by Hans Elsässer, Professor of Astronomy, Heidelberg University, in German, with an English translation. There is also a related letter from Elsässer to Professor Brück, Edinburgh, 8 July 1969.

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Copy of Leake’s original notebook detailing his travels in Sicily in 1807-1808, copied by Mr Hamilton [William Richard Hamilton 1777-1859?] (p. 204) in 1839 (dated p. 232).br/> Leake made autograph revisions in graphite pencil with additional topographical plans and copies of inscriptions. br/>

Presumably, this process of revision was with the aim of publishing the journal for Sicily but that never happened during Leake's lifetime nor since.

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Spare slides from a family holiday to Italy.

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Journals and notebooks of Hoare's extensive European tours, mainly through Italy.

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