Janus: Papers of Nevil Maskelyne

RGO Archives/RGO 4 contains:
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303	Papers on management of the Observatory
304	Papers on the Observatory's history
305	Papers on Observatory Visitors
306	Papers on the Royal Society
307	Papers on the Observatory's condition
308	Papers on Observatory instruments
309	Papers on the Annual Visitation and inventories
310	Extracts from Board of Longitude minutes
311	Trials of Harrison's chronometers
312	Books on chronometer trials
313	Warrant from Duke of Newcastle
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Papers of Nevil Maskelyne

Title	Papers on Observatory instruments
Reference	RGO 4/308
Covering Dates	1711–1770
Extent and Medium	1 envelope

Content and context

Various loose papers on the instruments at the Royal Observatory.

1. Inventory of the mathematical and astronomical instruments at the Royal Observatory, 16 March 1765.

2. Application for a new equatorial sector and two new rooms, with a breakdown of the costs involved, 1767-1770.

3. Minutes and those present at some Councils of the Royal Society, 30 May 1711 - 2 March 1727, regarding the instruments and conditions at the Royal Observatory, extracted from the Council Book of the Royal Society, Vol. 2, 1711-1726.

4. Minutes and those present at some Councils of the Royal Society, 10 August 1748 - 4 November 1762, regarding the instruments and conditions at the Royal Observatory, extracted from the Council Book of the Royal Society, Vol. 4, pp. 5-6, 1748-1762.

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