Regent's Park
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Subject Source: Local sources
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Correspondence on terrestrial longitude, 1833 - 1848
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 6/181
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....
Dates:
1833 - 1848
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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Letter acknowledging that chronometers are to be withdrawn from trial at the Royal Observatory, 1829-09-05
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 5/237: 131-132
Scope and Contents
In the letter addressed to Thomas Taylor, J. Abacar requests that the chronometers continue to be held at the Royal Observatory in a private trial and at his own expense.
Dates:
1829-09-05
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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Letter objecting to the withdrawal of chronometers from a trial, 1829-09-02
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 5/237: 127-128
Scope and Contents
Sent from J. Abacar to John Pond.
Dates:
1829-09-02
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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NS I Chap 5-48 Note, 1862-05-01 - 1862-05-31
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS DAR 46.1: 52r
Scope and Contents
Note; by Charles Robert Darwin
(Note)
Dates:
1862-05-01 - 1862-05-31
Conditions Governing Access:
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