Russia
Found in 18 Collections and/or Records:
Correspondence on chronometers, 1947 - 1963
Correspondence on chronometers, 1944
Correspondence regarding the supply of chronometers to the Russian Government.
Correspondence on International Geophysical Year, 1952 - 1956
Correspondence on International Geophysical Year, 1956 - 1960
Correspondence on magnetic data, 1937 - 1948
Correspondence on the Indian Survey, 1893 - 1932
Correspondence regarding the Indian Survey, including triangulation stations and instruments, with a chart showing the connection between the triangulations of India and Russia, 1914.
Correspondence with foreign observatories, 1957 - 1968
Correspondence with Russian institutions, 1964-02-12 - 1967-05-11
Correspondence with Soviet Union observatories and universities, including Professor A.A. Mikhailov and Z.I. Kadla of the Pulkova Observatory, Leningrad.
Correspondence with Russian observatories, 1946 - 1959
Correspondence with Russian observatories, including correspondence with M.S. Zverev, President of the Commission of the International Astronomical Union; V.B. Mkonov, Crimean Astrophysical Observatory; Professor B.A. Orlov, Pulkowa Observatory, Leningrad; and E. Federov, Chief of the Hydrometeorological Service of the U.S.S.R.
Miscellaneous papers, 1959
Miscellaneous papers, including a handwritten paper by Sir Richard Woolley on the minimum mass of a star; a note by Woolley on observations of the Sun in very long wave lengths; a letter from D. Lynden-Bell of Clare College, Cambridge, regarding a method of finding general solutions of the Lionville equation without assuming any special velocity distribution such as the ellipsoidal 'law'; and a report by Woolley on his impressions of a visit to Russia.
Papers on general administration, 1965 - 1968
Correspondence and papers regarding general administrative matters at the Royal Greenwich Observatory, including memoranda on hours worked; correspondence concerning the introduction of Science Research Council conditions of service management with regard to the Isaac Newton Telescope; reports by G.H. Herby on Soviet astronomy; material on the provision of information for the annual report; and disclaimer notices on car parks.
Papers on standards, 1809 - 1843
Printed papers on standards, including English Acts of Parliament; conversion tables for Scottish Measures; Russian, Bavarian and Sardinian Laws concerning weights and measures; and newspaper cuttings. There are also unprinted petitions, reports and comparisons, including petitions from the Glasgow Chamber of Commerce, and a draft of a former bill (1758) relating to weights and measures.
Papers on the Committee on Space Research, 1958 - 1963
Papers on the International Astronomical Union, 1948 - 1952
Papers on the National Committee for Astronomy, 1949 - 1958
Papers on the Nautical Almanac Office, 1938 - 1956
Papers on the U.S.S.R., 1946 - 1973
General correspondence and other papers regarding the U.S.S.R., principally the Institute for Theoretical Astronomy of the Academy of Sciences, Leningrad, including material on the exchange of data.