India
Found in 54 Collections and/or Records:
Correspondence and observations on solar eclipse, 1867 - 1869
Correspondence on chronometers for India, 1894 - 1910
Correspondence on chronometers for India, 1908 - 1938
Correspondence on foreign observatories, 1961 - 1963
Correspondence regarding foreign observatories, including observatories in Turkey, Italy, Poland, Argentina, Belgium, Sweden and India.
Correspondence on geodesy, 1862 - 1868
Correspondence on Indian observatories, 1955 - 1963
Correspondence concerning Indian observatories, including correspondence with Dr S.D. Sinvahl, Uttar Pradesh State Observatory; A.N. Goyal, Department of Mathematics, the University of Rajasthan, Jaipur; K.D. Abhyankar, Nizamiah Observatory; and M.W. Chiplankar, University of Poona. There is also correspondence regarding the Indian Astronomical Society, including letters from N.L. Ghash of Calcutta.
Correspondence on longitudes and latitudes, 1873 - 1903
Correspondence on magnetic instruments, 1932 - 1936
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 on the Isaac Newton Telescope, 1946 - 1955
Correspondence on the solar eclipse, 1897 - 1898
Correspondence on time signals, 1902 - 1936
Correspondence relating to payments to James Inman, including £100 for his passage from China, 1796 - 1811
Includes Regulations of the East India Company regarding the sums to be paid by passengers to and from India on the Company's ships.
Correspondence with foreign observatories, 1964 - 1968
Correspondence with Indian observatories, 1945 - 1954
Correspondence with the Chief Assistant, 1894 - 1906
Documents on standards, 1860 - 1868
Confidential documents issued by the Warden of the Standards to the Standards Commission. The volume also includes a list of American standards sent to England in 1843; newspaper and magazine cuttings; papers on Indian weights and measures; papers on a decimal system; reports of the Warden of the Standards; and parliamentary bills and acts.
‘Halley’s Comet’ stamp, India: first day cover, 1985-11-19
First day cover envelope issued by the International Astronomical Union, New Delhi, decorated with a sun and moon and bearing a 100-rupee stamp showing Halley’s Comet.
Lady Margaret Clive's letters, 1762 - 1917
This series comprises four folders of letters sent by Lady Clive to her brother Nevil Maskelyne, her niece Margaret Maskelyne, and to other family members. The letters span 55 years, from 1762 until Lady Clive's death on 28 Dec. 1817. Many mention astronomy, including sightings of the great comet of 1811.
The series also includes a set of copies of family letters (including some written by Nevil Maskelyne), and notes by Theresa Story-Maskelyne on the letters of Lady Clive.
Letter concerning a chronometer by Barraud purchased by Captain Walpole of HMS Curlew in India, 1823-07-17
Sent from John Barrow to John Pond.
Letter concerning a chronometer by Barraud [purchased by Captain Walpole of HMS Curlew in India], 1823-07-19
Sent from John Barrow to John Pond.
Letter concerning a chronometer for HMS Herald under Captain E.W.C. Astley, 1827-06-04
Sent from John Barrow to John Pond.
Letter from John Arnold to Lord Howe, 1784-08-24
Letter from Linklater to the Board of Longitude, 1823
Concerning the General Hewitt ship and stores lost in India. Linklater outlines crimes committed by a number of people, including Henry Chalke, postmaster at Diamond Harbour, India, who is described as guilty of murder and of stealing. The letter ends with lines of verse.