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The accounts of printers and publishers for Board of Longitude publications, with miscellaneous accounts:
Papers regarding the warehouse in Catherine Street occupied by the Board of Longitude, 1782-1826.
Letter and receipt from J. Arnold, 1785-1797.
Letter from J. Basire regarding engraving work done on a chart of Australia ('New Holland') and New Zealand, 1788.
Letter from N. Maskelyne regarding the observations made by W. Bayly during the voyage of the 'Discovery', 1782
Receipt from I. Farlow, 1795.
Letter from C. Fenwick regarding a bill of lading, 1824.
Invoice from Messrs Smith, Lundin and Company, 1821.
Expense sheets for the trigonometrical survey between London and Paris, 1822.
Accounts relating to Lieutenant H. Foster's pendulum experiments, 1824-1828.
Accounts relating to Captain E. Sabine's pendulum experiments, 1828.
Accounts relating to R. Sheepshanks's pendulum experiments in Cornwall to determine the mean density of the Earth, 1828.
Receipt relating to £200 paid to P. Barlow, 1828.
Miscellaneous accounts relating to the computers of the 'Nautical Almanac', 1812-1828.
Receipts from N. Smith for a portable observatory, 1791.
Accounts from J. Weir relating to an artificial horizon, 1794-1795.
Receipt from W. Wales for payment for work done on examining tables, 1796.
Receipt from G. Gilpin, 1797.
Receipt relating to a Walker's azimuth compass, 1797.
Letters and accounts relating to the estate of J. Davidson, 1802.
Account of Messrs W. and S. Jones for instruments supplied to computers, 1810.
Correspondence regarding G. Dollond, 1821-1829.
Correspondence regarding J.F. Chinnery, 1821-1829.
Letters and accounts regarding the estate of J. Davidson, 1802.
Papers regarding the Royal Danish Sea Chart Office, 1822.
Account of G.W. Nicol, 1825-1827.
Receipts relating to J. Newman, 1826-1829.
Accounts of the Glass Committee, 1827-1829.
Receipts relating to J. Dickinson, 1828.
Receipt, etc., from E. Tilbury for the rent of a warehouse, 1828-1829.
Accounts with computers of the 'Nautical Almanac' and others, 1828.
Miscellaneous papers relating to accounts, 1795-1828.
Half-used Messrs Coutts and Co. cheque book belonging to the Board, with several books of cheque stubs.
Miscellaneous papers regarding the accounts of computers under J. Pond, Astronomer Royal, 1815-1824.
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