RGO Archives/RGO 6 contains:
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194	Discussion of star places
195	Discussion of star places
196	Discussion of star places
197	Discussion of star places
198	Discussion of star places
199	Comparisons of north polar distances
200	Computations for Herschel's catalogue
201	Correspondence on Airy's Ipswich lectures
202	Computations to find the constant of refraction
203	Correspondence with Nautical Almanac Office
204	'Nautical Almanac' correspondence
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Papers of George Airy

Title	Comparisons of north polar distances
Reference	RGO 6/199 (former reference: B5/13)
Covering Dates	1878–1879
Extent and Medium	1 box

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Comparisons of north polar distances in the first and second seven year and nine year star catalogues and for circumpolar stars, with corrections to those comparisons. There is a catalogue of 384 transit stars and a short paper by A.M.W. Downing on refraction. The correspondents include W.H.M. Christie, A. d'Abbadie, J.R. Hind, A.V. Auwers, C.P. Smyth, T.H. Safford, E. Dunkin and O. Struve.

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Christie, Sir William Henry Mahoney (1845-1922) Knight, astronomer

Abbadie, Antoine Thomson d' (1810-1897) geographer

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

Dunkin, Edwin (1821-1898) astronomer

Hind, John Russell (1823-1895) astronomer

Smyth, Charles Piazzi (1819-1900) astronomer

Struve, Otto Wilhelm (1819-1905) astronomer

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