Record

RefNoMC/4/71
LevelItem
TitleLetter from George Biddell Airy, Royal Observatory Greenwich, to [George] Peacock, Dean of Ely and Chairman of the Committee of Physics at the Royal Society
Date7 May 1845
DescriptionDetailing the reasons for continuing the Magnetic and Meteorological Observatory adjacent to the Royal Observatory.

[Read at Council and entered into minutes on 22 May 1845.]

[The extent is across two papers, the second of which is labelled MC/4/71a within the volume.]
Extent7p
FormatManuscript
AccessStatusOpen
RelatedRecordCMP/1/194
Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA7093Peacock; George (1791 - 1858)1791 - 1858
NA8035Airy; Sir; George Biddell (1801 - 1892); astronomer and mathematician1801 - 1892
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