RGO Archives/RGO 6 contains:
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365	Papers on standards
366	Correspondence with Standards Warden
367	Correspondence on standards
368	Miscellaneous correspondence
369	Miscellaneous correspondence
370	Miscellaneous correspondence
371	Miscellaneous correspondence
372	Miscellaneous correspondence
373	Miscellaneous correspondence
374	Miscellaneous correspondence
375	Scientific correspondence
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Papers of George Airy

Title	Miscellaneous correspondence
Reference	RGO 6/370 (former reference: F4/3)
Covering Dates	1848
Extent and Medium	1 box

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Airy's miscellaneous personal correspondence for 1848, including requests for clocks and nautical almanacs and an extract from a book by J.F.W. Herschel called 'Outlines of Astronomy'. The correspondents include J.B. Biot, J.D. Forbes, W.R. Hamilton, J.F.W. Herschel, O.M. Mitchel, G.A.A. Plana, L.A. Quetelet, H.C. Schumacher, H. Lloyd, W.H. Smyth, F.G.W. Struve and J.R. Young.

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Herschel, Sir John Frederick William (1792-1871) Knight, astronomer

Schumacher, Heinrich Christian (1780-1850) astronomer

Biot, Jean-Baptiste (1774-1862) physicist

Forbes, James David (1809-1868) natural philosopher

Quetelet, Lambert-Adolphe-Jacques (1796-1874) astronomer, statistician and sociologist

Smyth, William Henry (1788-1865) Admiral, scientist and antiquary

Mitchel, Ormsby MacKnight (1809-1862) astronomer

Plana, Giovanni Antonio Amedeo (1781-1864) astronomer and mathematician

Lloyd, Humphrey (1800-1881) physicist and university administrator

Hamilton, Sir William Rowan (1805-1865) Knight, mathematician

Struve, Friedrich Georg Wilhelm (1793-1864) astronomer

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