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RGO Archives/RGO 7 contains:
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239 Papers on the Royal Society
240 Papers on the Royal Society
241 Correspondence on Government grants correspondence
242 Papers on Royal Society soirees
243 Papers on the Royal Astronomical Society
244 Papers on the Royal Astronomical Society
245 Correspondence on charities
246 Correspondence on charities
247 Miscellaneous correspondence
248 Miscellaneous correspondence
249 Papers on London colleges
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Papers of William Christie

Title Papers on the Royal Astronomical Society
Reference RGO 7/244
(former reference: V10, V12, V15)
Covering Dates 1883–1912
Extent and Medium 1 bundle
Content and context

(1) Reviews of Royal Astronomical Society papers, 1895-1906

Review of Mr Thackeray's paper on Polaris by H.H. Turner, 1895.

Review of D. Gill and Mr Jacoby's 'Errors of Cape Reseau Gaulier No 8' by Christie, 1896.

Review of Gill's instrument for measuring astro-photographic plates by Christie, 1898.

Review of Rambout's Radcliffe observations of 1774-1838 by F.W. Dyson and Christie, 1900.

Criticisms of the Greenwich sector diagrams of declination and horizontal force, 1841-1876, and Dr C. Cree's paper on the Falmouth magnetographs of sunspots, 1906.

(2) Royal Astronomical Society Club invitations to dinner, 1883-1888, with offers of membership and a request to Christie to take the chair.

(3) Miscellaneous papers regarding the Royal Astronomical Society, 1894-1912

Papers concerning the following subjects:

Notification of the change in the hour for meetings, 1894.

Complaint about the procedure at meetings, 1896.

Subscription on behalf of W.H. Wesley, 1896.

Cost of printing the 'Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society', 1907.

Use of tubolite lighting for showing comet photographs, 1908.

Arrangements for a conversazione and a list of exhibits, 1909.

Deputation to the King led by D. Gill, 1910.

Invitation to the Coronation ceremony, 1911.

Request for pecuniary assistance by F.W. Herkel, 1912.

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Indexed

Index Terms
Dyson, Sir Frank Watson (1868-1939) Knight, astronomer
Royal Astronomical Society
Gill, Sir David (1843-1914) Knight, astronomer
Chree, Charles (1860-1928) astronomer
Turner, Herbert Hall (1861-1930) astronomer and seismologist
Thackeray, William Grasett (d 1936) assistant at Royal Observatory
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