Papers of George Airy

Correspondence regarding admissions to visit the Royal Observatory. The volume is divided broadly into requests from the Admiralty to visit the Royal Observatory, introductions on behalf of visitors, personal requests to visit the Observatory, and instructions to assistants to receive guests. The correspondents include C. Wood, F. Beaufort, J. Barrow, S.H. Herbert, H.T.C. Corry, H.G. Ward, R.S. Dundas, J.G. Children, C.W. Pasley, H.C. Schumacher, J.F. Encke, J.W. Lubbock, T. Henderson, W.R. Hamilton, W.S. Stratford, T.M. Brisbane, B. Hall, M. Faraday, J. Parker, B. Lloyd, R. Sheepshanks, J. Locke, W. Pearson, T. Spring-Rice, M.I. Brunel, F.W. Bessel, T. Hodgkin, C. Babbage, T.G. Taylor, J.E. Gray, J.J. Sylvester, B. Donkin, J.F.W. Herschel, C. Wheatstone, G. Dollond, W.D. Saull, W.H. Sykes, F.W.H.A.V. Humboldt, F.R. Chesney, W. Cubitt, O.M. Mitchel, G.S.G. Santini, J.V. Lamont, G. Everest, A. de Morgan, J.Q. Adams, J.R. Hind, M.J. Johnson, W. Farr, O. Struve, U.J.J. Le Verrier, C. Manby, E. Sabine, P.M. Roget, W.H. Smyth, W. Wilkins, F. Baily, G.C. Taylor, W.H. Pepys, G. Peacock, J. Britton, R. Fitzroy, R Stapford, F.K. Hunt, J. Glaisher, B.A. Gould, C. Brooke, T. Galloway, R.I. Murchison, T. Jones and G. Fisher.

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