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Concerning a parcel from G.W.U. Wedel.

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 on finding terrestrial longitude by testing chronometers at the culmination of Moon and stars. There is material on the longitudes of Chelmsford, Limerick, Port Stephen (Australia), Paris, Edinburgh, Antwerp, Dublin, Armagh, Cambridge, Oxford, Bedford, Hartwell, Portsmouth, Devonport, Hamburg, Liverpool and Regent's Park. The correspondents include E.J. Cooper, J.C. Fremont, P.P. King, W.H.C. Bartlett, Sir F. Beaufort, G. Fisher, E. Sabine, T. Henderson, R. Sheepshanks, J....

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Printed; by Anon (tr E Wiebe); written at Hamburg

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Some with annotations.

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...

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Letters from James Dixon to his father John sent whilst he was travelling, mostly on the Continent. The letters have been guarded and bound. All are originals, and are addressed to John Dixon at 50 Fenchurch Street, London, except for /36 which is addressed to 6 Mecklenburgh Square. They give a detailed account of James Dixon's foreign travels, particularly of his sojourns in Vienna and Paris

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Letter from Albert George Dew-Smith née Dew to Sir Horace Darwin; written at Hamburg

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A small collection of letters to Henry Woods, written mainly in English, with a few in French.

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A small collection of letters to Henry Woods, written mainly in English, with a few in French.

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A small collection of letters to Henry Woods, written mainly in English, with a few in French.

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Letter from Christian Radenhausen to Sir George Howard Darwin; written at Hamburg

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Letter from Edward Elias to Sir George Howard Darwin; written at Hamburg

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Letter from F T C Beger to Charles Robert Darwin; written at Hamburg damaged

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Correspondent is Friedrich Theodor Karl Beger; written at Hamburg

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Two letters and a paper.

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Letter from John Cleves Symmes to Charles Robert Darwin; written at Hamburg

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Letter from (Samuel) Tolver Preston to Sir George Howard Darwin; written at Hamburg

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Letter from (Samuel) Tolver Preston to Sir George Howard Darwin; written at Hamburg

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Letter from (Samuel) Tolver Preston to Sir George Howard Darwin; written at Hamburg

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Letter from (Samuel) Tolver Preston to Sir George Howard Darwin; written at Hamburg

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Letter from (Samuel) Tolver Preston to Sir George Howard Darwin; written at Hamburg

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Letter from (Samuel) Tolver Preston to Sir George Howard Darwin; written at Hamburg

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Letter from (Samuel) Tolver Preston to Sir George Howard Darwin; written at Hamburg

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