RefNo | MM/11/88 |
Level | Item |
Title | "Extract from a note made by G B Airy immediately after the meeting of the Council of the Royal Society on July 9 or 10 1840" |
Date | March 1845 |
Description | The extract gives Airy's opinion on the call for the establishment of a magnetical and meteorological observatory "in the neighbourhood of London".
MM/11/87-90 are written in the same hand and appear to be by G B Airy who was concerned about the effect on the Greenwich Observatory of attempts to build a new observatory for magnetical observations. |
Extent | 1 side |
Format | Manuscript |
AccessStatus | Open |
Fellows associated with this archive
Code | PersonName | Dates |
NA8035 | Airy; Sir; George Biddell (1801 - 1892); astronomer and mathematician | 1801 - 1892 |