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Three letters from Scrymgeour to Dr Thomas Young, with a copy of a reply from Young.

Scope and Contents Correspondence and related papers on the communication of time by the Post Office telegraph. There are papers on the trials, costs and tests of clocks on the network; the regulation of clocks; proposals for time signals to be sent to naval dockyards from Greenwich; time balls at Portsmouth, Devonport, Sheerness, Glasgow, Hamburg, Liverpool and the City Observatory, London; and a report by Airy on the workings of the Devonport Time Ball and sketches of its galvanic arrangement. The...

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...

Scope and Contents Correspondence and related papers on the time signal and the time ball service. There are various papers on the signalling of time by a falling ball or by cannon fire at Birmingham, Cardiff, Devonport, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Madras, Newcastle, Nice and the Palais Royale, Paris; proposals for time balls at Wellington (New Zealand), Ipswich, and Port Elizabeth; proposals for clocks and bells in Worcester; details of local time signals in 'The Scotsman', 'Daily Review', 'Glasgow Daily Herald',...

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: In the following correspondence, which mostly relates to the various aspects of Pamplin's business career, are represented many of the leading botanists of the middle decades of the nineteenth century. A similar, though larger, collection is in the Archives Department of the University of Wales, Bangor (Pamplin Papers); and other letters, diaries and notebooks are held at the National Library of Wales (MSS 7492-7509). The following letters are mounted on paper, frequently two letters to a...

Scope and Contents Sones speaks to Rowley and Sweeney after a Parliamentary debate on giving 16 year olds the vote, Rowley says that she was disappointed by the Conservative response when the debate had been positive. She goes onto the say that arguments against extending the voting franchise are very similar to the arguments made against giving women the vote. The Conservative minister used the phrase 'no taxation without representation' and argued that giving 16 year olds the vote, would mean you would have...

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Alexander Stephen Wilson to Charles Robert Darwin

Letter; written at Glasgow Letter from Alexander Stephen Wilson to Charles Robert Darwin; written at Glasgow

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Three letters from Andrew Templeton of the Glasgow Astronomical Society.

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Three letters from Andrew Templeton of the Glasgow Astronomical Society.

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Acknowledging receipt of a Navy Bill for £300 for the telescope.

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Letter from Caroline Lane Reynolds Slemmer Jebb née Haskins to Eleanor 'Nellie' DuPuy; written at Glasgow

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Letter from Caroline Lane Reynolds Slemmer Jebb née Haskins to [Ellen DuPuy née Haskins]; written at [Glasgow]

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Letter from Caroline Lane Reynolds Slemmer Jebb née Haskins to [Ellen DuPuy née Haskins]; written at Glasgow

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Letter from Caroline Lane Reynolds Slemmer Jebb née Haskins to M Reynolds; written at Glasgow

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Letter from Caroline Lane Reynolds Slemmer Jebb née Haskins to Maud Darwin née DuPuy; written at [Glasgow]

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Letter from Caroline Lane Reynolds Slemmer Jebb née Haskins to Maud Darwin née DuPuy; written at [Glasgow]

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Letter from Erasmus Alvey Darwin to Charles Robert Darwin; written at [Glasgow]

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Letter from Erasmus Alvey Darwin to Charles Robert Darwin; written at [Glasgow]

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This group of papers concerns one stage in the long campaign to relax the hold of compulsory Greek on the University's curriculum and examinations, culminating in the publication of two reports by the Studies and Examinations Syndicate in 1904 and 1906.

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Letter from J M Fleming to Charles Robert Darwin; written at Glasgow damaged

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Letter from James Ballantine Hannay to Charles Robert Darwin; written at Glasgow

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Letter from James Ballantine Hannay to Charles Robert Darwin; written at Glasgow

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