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RGO Archives/RGO 59 contains:
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52 Investigations of Brahe and Hevelius's work
53 Survey of Athenian buildings
54 Observations and declinations of stars
55 Essay on cometary orbits
56 'Home' Journals
57 Papers of the 1874 Transit of Venus
58 Equipment for transit stations
59 Observations of stars
60 Correspondence on the Transit of Venus Expedition
61 Papers for the 1874 Transit of Venus
62 Papers of the Transit of Venus Expedition
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Papers of George Lyon Tupman

Title Papers of the 1874 Transit of Venus
Reference RGO 59/57
Covering Dates circa 1874
Extent and Medium 1 bundle
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Small bundles of papers relating to the Transit of Venus of 1874: instructions by Tupman on the use of the Double Image Micrometer, Photoheliograph (including hints on developing plates) and Airy's Prismatic Eyepiece; a translation of a paper by Dr Auwers on the longitude connections of the Transit of Venus stations; notes on the Transit of Venus instruments, methods of observing and reducing the observations, and other information, followed by Mr Stone's catalogue of 78 South Polar Stars reduced to 1 January 1874; copies of general notices by the Astronomer Royal relating to the Transit of Venus; unarranged notes regarding the transit instrument; and reports on instruments.

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Auwers, Arthur Julius Georg Friedrich von (1838-1915) astronomer
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