Papers of William Christie

Measures and plans relating to the buildings and grounds of the Royal Observatory:

Documents showing the measurements of the Great Equatorial room, 1877.

Plans for the fitting of a gas pipe to Naptha House, 1877.

Plans of alterations necessary due to the erection of the new library, 1878-1879.

Miscellaneous measures and plans, 1879-1881.

Paper giving the measurements of Zylinski's transit and vertical circle in the front courtyard of the Royal Observatory, 1889.

Measurement of the space occupied by chronometers, 1895.

Rough plan of shelves and the chronometer oven, 1895.

Ground plan of the South East Dome lower room, a plan of the chronometer room and oven, and plans for the proposed new chronometer oven, 1896.

Dimensions of the space occupied by books and manuscripts in the library, the record room and the depot, 1894-1898.

Material on sliding shelves for charts, maps, etc., 1902.

Survey of portfolios of charts, 1903.

Material on the portable canvas hut for the French Longitude Station and the plan giving details of the shutter in the roof, 1902.

Memoranda, 1902: 1. 'Effect of ironwork in proposed New Altazimuth Dome'; 2. 'Cost of chronometer oven'; 3. 'Plans and measurement of the Lassell Dome'; 4. 'Transit Pavilion'; and 5. 'Plan of grounds between the New Physical Observatory and the Altazimuth Pavilion'.