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Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

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Notebook on the eclipse expedition to Sfax [Tunisia], 1905, Aug. 30, 1905

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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 169/2
Scope and Contents

Containing handwritten entries listing the contents of equipment cases, adjustments to instruments and 'notes etc.' Much of the notebook is blank.

Dates: 1905
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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Papers on the solar eclipse, 1904 - 1906

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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 7/202
Scope and Contents Papers relating to the solar eclipse of 30 August 1905, seen at Sfax, Tunisia:Correspondence with the Admiralty regarding expenses and advances in salary for the Astronomer Royal, F.W. Dyson and C. Davidson, 1905.Correspondence with the Admiralty concerning the use of the warship HMS 'Suffolk' for the conveyance of the eclipse party from Malta to Sfax, 1905, including the Astronomer Royal's report to the Admiralty on the expedition results.Correspondence with the...
Dates: 1904 - 1906
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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Papers on the solar eclipse, 1905

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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 7/203
Scope and Contents Papers relating to the solar eclipse of 30 August 1905, seen at Sfax, Tunisia:Correspondence and memoranda concerning E.W. Maunder's expedition to Labrador.Correspondence with steamship companies regarding travelling arrangements for getting to Sfax.Pamphlets and booklets of steamship lines relating to services useful to the eclipse expedition.Correspondence with the Foreign Office and Treasury regarding the passage through Customs for eclipse expedition...
Dates: 1905
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).