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Authorised form of nameAiry; Sir; George Biddell (1801 - 1892); astronomer and mathematician
Dates1801 - 1892
NationalityBritish
Place of birthAlnwick, Northumberland, England
Date of birth27 July 1801
Place of deathGreenwich, London
Date of death02 January 1892
Research fieldAstronomy
ActivityEducation:
MA
Career:
Astronomer Royal 1836-1892
Honours:
CB 1871; KCB 1872
Memberships:
FRAS; Institute of France (Corresponding)
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election21/01/1836
RSActivityRoyal Society roles:
VP 1848-1849; PRS 1871-1873; VP 1873-1874
Medals and prizes:
Copley Medal 1831; Royal Medal 1845
Lectures:
Bakerian 1840
RelationshipsFather-in-law of Edward John Routh (FRS 1872)
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB; DSB
Obituaries:
Proc Roy Soc 1892 vol 51 pp i-xxi signed by E J R
References:
R K Bluhm, 'A Note on the Origin of the Society's Conversaziones' in NR 1958 vol 13 pp 61-63
John R Levene, 'Sir George Biddell Airy, FRS (1801-1892) and the Discovery and Correction of Astigmatism' in NR 1966 vol 21 pp 180-199, plate
Otto Mayr, 'Victorian Physicists and Speed Regulation: An Encounter Between Science and Technology' in NR 1971 vol 26 pp 205-228
John R Levene, 'Sir G B Airy, FRS (1801-1892) and the Symptomatology of Migraine' in NR 1975-6 vol 30 pp 15-23
W H McCrea, 'The Royal Observatory and the Study of Gravitation' in NR 1975-6 vol 30 pp 133-140, plate
Charles H Cotter, 'The Royal Society and the Deviation of the Compass' in NR 1976-7 vol 31 pp 297-309
James Gabriel O'Hara, 'Gauss and the Royal Society: The Reception of His Ideas on Magnetism in Britain (1832-1842)' in NR 1983-84 vol 38 pp 17-78
Peter J Turvey, 'Sir John Herschel and the Abandonment of Charles Babbage's Difference Engine No. 1' in NR 1991 vol 45 pp 165-176
Allan Chapman, 'George Biddell Airy, FRS (1801-1892): A Centenary Commemoration' in NR 1992 vol 46 pp 103-110, plate
Alex D D Craik, 'James Ivory, FRS, mathematician: "the most unlucky person that ever existed"' in NR 2000 vol 54 pp 223-247
Alex D D Craik, 'James Ivory's last papers on the 'Figure of the Earth' (with biographical additions) in NR 2002 vol 56 pp 187-204
Vanity Fair 13 November 1875
M Croarken, 'Astronomical labourers: Maskelyne's assistants at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, 1765 - 1811' in NR 2003 vol 57 pp 285 - 298
Virtual International Authority Filehttp://viaf.org/viaf/24591712
CodeNA8035
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MM/9/75Letter from G B Airy, Royal Observatory, Greenwich, to Edward Cooper6 September 1852
MM/11/177ALetter from G B Airy, Royal Observatory, to Edward Sabine21 March 1842
MM/9/58Letter from G B Airy, Royal Observatory, Greenwich, to Edward Cooper8 May 1848
MC/4/230Letter from [George Biddell] Airy, Royal Observatory Greenwich, to [Charles Richard] Weld, [Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society]2 May 1848
MC/4/229Letter from [George Biddell] Airy, Royal Observatory Greenwich, to the Secretary of the Astronomical Committee of the Royal Society28 April 1848
MM/11/176Letter from G B Airy, Royal Observatory, to E Sabine2 March 1842
MS/426/323Copy letter from C R [Charles Richard] Weld, the Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to [George Biddell] Airy4 May 1848
MC/5/71Letter from G B [George Biddell] Airy, Royal Observatory Greenwich, to Thomas Bell, Secretary of the Royal Society16 December 1852
MM/14/40Letter from G B Airy, Greenwich, to the Royal Society16 November 1842
MM/9/71Letter from G B Airy, Royal Observatory, Greenwich, to Edward Cooper20 November 1850
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MM/11/182Letter from Edward Sabine, Woolwich, to G B Airy11 May 1842
MM/12/117Letter from G B Airy, Playford near Ipswich, to Warren de la Rue15 June 1880
IM/000043Airy, Sir George BiddellMarch 2000
MM/9/56Letter from G B Airy, Royal Observatory, Greenwich, to Edward Cooper29 November 1847
MM/9/68Letter from G B Airy, Royal Observatory, Greenwich, to Edward Cooper12 September 1850
MM/9/61Letter from G B Airy, Royal Observatory, Greenwich, to Edward Cooper19 May 1849
MM/9/54Letter from G B Airy, Royal Observatory, Greenwich, to Edward Cooper4 August 1845
MM/9/66Letter from G B Airy, Royal Observatory, Greenwich, to Edward Cooper31 May 1850
MM/9/52Letter from G B Airy, Royal Observatory, Greenwich, to Edward Cooper3 February 1844
MM/9/63Letter from G B Airy, Royal Observatory, Greenwich, to Edward Cooper29 May 1849
MM/9/74Letter from G B Airy, Royal Observatory, Greenwich, to Edward Cooper16 April 1851
MM/9/60Letter from G B Airy, Royal Observatory, Greenwich, to Edward Cooper19 May 1849
MM/11/186Letter from G B Airy, Royal Observatory Greenwich, to J F W Herschel24 October 1849
MM/9/72Letter from G B Airy, Royal Observatory, Greenwich, to Edward Cooper30 January 1851
MM/9/57Letter from G B Airy, Royal Observatory, Greenwich, to Edward Cooper9 December 1847
MM/11/187Letter from G B Airy, Royal Observatory Greenwich, to J F W Herschel26 October 1849
MM/12/125Letter from G B Airy, Greenwich, to Warren de la Rue7 July 1880
MM/12/112Letter from David Gill, Cape Observatory, to G B Airy6 June 1880
MM/11/177Letter from Edward Sabine, 12 Park Place, to G B Airy7 March 1842
MM/12/104Copy of a letter from David Gill, Cape Observatory, to G B Airy18 May 1880
MM/11/162Letter from Humphrey Lloyd, Trinity College Dublin, to J F W Herschel11 January 1842
MM/10/167Receipt from Richard Harris for Standard Yard and Standard Troy Weight23 January 1843
MM/12/71Letter from G B Airy, Greenwich, to Thomas Bell24 December 1852
MM/11/189Report of a subcommittee of the Physical Committee on the use to which the building 'formerly occupied by the Observatory at Kew' could be put, in case of its being offered to the Societyc.1840
MM/11/174Letter from G B Airy, Royal Observatory, to E Sabine19 February 1842
MM/11/178Letter from Edward Sabine, Woolwich, to G B Airy1 April 1842
MM/11/32Duplicate receipt for, and schedule of, the standard weights and measures, by Edward Sabine and C R Weld20 October 1853
MM/11/175Letter from Edward Sabine, 12 Park Place, to G B Airy23 February 1842
MM/12/102Letter from G B Airy, Greenwich, to Warren de la Rue15 April 1880
MM/12/101Letter from Warren de la Rue, 73 Portland Place, to G B Airy14 April 1880
MM/12/103Copy of a letter from G B Airy, Greenwich, to David Gill19 April 1880
MM/12/100Letter from G B Airy, Greenwich, to Warren de la Rue13 April 1880
MM/11/168Letter from G B Airy, Royal Observatory, to J W Lubbock31 January 1842
MM/11/87Extract from the minutes of the Council of the Royal Society of 18 June 1840, calling for the establishment of a magnetical and meteorological observatory "in the neighbourhood of London", signed J W LubbockMarch 1845
MM/11/88"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"March 1845
MM/14/64Letter from G B Airy, Greenwich, to Charles Wheatstone30 October 1849
MM/16/147Letter from G B Airy, Greenwich, to Sir John Herschel12 November 1838
MM/16/148Letter from G B Airy, Greenwich, to Sir John Herschel16 April 1839
MM/15/60Letter from G B Airy, Royal Observatory Greenwich, to WR Birt9 September 1862
P/0169Portrait of Airy, Sir George
MM/15/62Letter from G B Airy, Royal Observatory Greenwich, to WR Birt21 December 1865
MM/15/61Letter from G B Airy, Royal Observatory Greenwich, to WR Birt27 September 1862
MM/16/46Letter from G B Airy, Greenwich, to TR Robinson28 April 1865
MM/17/26Letter from G B Airy to Walter White30 July 1866
MM/12/88Report of the Standards Office Committee, signed by G B Airy, AR Clarke and George Gabriel Stokesc.1882
MM/17/25Letter from G B Airy to Walter White31 October 1864
MM/9/65Letter from G B Airy, Royal Observatory, Greenwich, to Edward Cooper29 May 1850
MM/19/103Letter from George Biddell Airy to Edward Sabine, Treasurer, Royal Society14 December 1852
MS/769/11Letter from George Biddell Airy, Royal Observatory, Greenwich, to Walter White21 August 1856
MS/769/7Letter from George Biddell Airy, Royal Observatory, Greenwich, to Walter White, Royal Society, Somerset House24 August 1853
MS/769/12Letter from George Biddell Airy, Royal Observatory, Greenwich, to Charles Richard Weld, Royal Society, Somerset House5 September 1856
MS/769/6Letter from George Biddell Airy, Royal Observatory, Greenwich, to Walter White, Royal Society, Somerset House24 August 1853
MS/769/5Letter from George Biddell Airy, Royal Observatory, Greenwich, to Charles Richard Weld, Royal Society, Somerset House13 August 1853
MS/769/10Letter from George Biddell Airy, Royal Observatory, Greenwich, to Walter White16 May 1854
MS/769/9Letter from George Biddell Airy, Royal Observatory, Greenwich, to Walter White, Royal Society, Somerset House13 September 1853
MS/769/15Letter from George Biddell Airy, Royal Observatory, Greenwich, London, to Walter White24 December 1872
MS/769/8Letter from George Biddell Airy, Royal Observatory, Greenwich, to Charles Richard Weld or Walter White, Royal Society, Somerset House 6 September 1853
MS/769/13Letter from George Biddell Airy, Royal Observatory, Greenwich, to Charles Richard Weld16 February 1859
MS/769/14Letter from George Biddell Airy, Royal Observatory, Greenwich, London, to Walter White22 April 1862
MS/769/16Letter from George Biddell Airy, Royal Observatory, Greenwich, London, to Walter White27 February 1875
MM/22/51Receipt issued by George Biddell Airy, Royal Observatory, Greenwich, to J P Maclear25 July 1876
MM/11/160Letter from G B Airy, Royal Observatory, to J F W Herschel25 December 1841
MM/11/163Letter from G B Airy, Royal Observatory, to J F W Herschel18 January 1842
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CMB/42/13/1Copy, letter from David Gill, Royal Observatory, Cape of Good Hope, to [Warren] de la Rue22 March 1880
CMB/42/13/3Copy, letter from Warren De la Rue, Portland Place, to Sir George Airy, Astronomer Royal, Royal Observatory Greenwich14 April 1880
CMB/42/13/2Copy, letter from [Sir George] Airy, Astronomer Royal, Greenwich Observatory, to Mr De La Rue, Portland Place13 April 1880
CMB/42/13/4Copy, letter from Copy, letter from [Sir George] Airy, Astronomer Royal, to Mr De La Rue, Portland Place15 April 1880
CMB/42/13Minutes, meeting of the Cape Telescope Committee9 June 1880
IM/Maull/000046Airy, Sir George Biddellnd
IM/000048Airy, Sir George Biddellnd
IM/004261Airy, Sir George Biddellnd
IM/004263Airy, Sir George Biddellnd
IM/000047Airy, Sir George Biddellnd
IM/000049Airy, Sir George Biddellnd
IM/004262Airy, Sir George Biddellnd
MS/744/1/2Letter from George Biddell Airy, Royal Observatory, Greenwich , to Lt. Col. [Henry] James 26 April 1856
RR/7/33Referee's report by George Biddell Airy, on a paper 'On the theory of continuous beams' by John Mortimer Heppel9 March 1870
PT/64/13Paper, 'On the difference in the properties of hot rolled and cold rolled malleable iron, as regards the power of receiving and retaining induced magnetism of subpermanent character' by George Biddell Airy21 April 1862
MM/12/81Letter from G B Airy, Greenwich, to Thomas Bell30 April 1853
MS/744/1/3Letter from George Biddell Airy, Royal Observatory, Greenwich to Sir Henry James8 January 1862
MS/123/22Letter from George Biddell Airy to the Duke of Sussex2 June 1835
NLB/3/386Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Sir George Biddell Airy, Fellow of the Royal Society29 May 1889
NLB/5/414Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Carus-Wilson5 June 1891
NLB/5/1123Copy letter from an unknown correspondent, to Messrs Harrison & Sons6 January 1892
NLB/14/787Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to the Astronomer Royal [Sir George Biddell Airy]17 May 1897
NLB/17/686Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Monsieur Professeur Ernest Lebon, Chez M Gauthier-Villars, Quai des Grands-Augustins, paris7 December 1898
MC/4/56Letter from George Biddell Airy, Royal Observatory Greenwich, to [Charles Richard] Weld, [Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society]7 March 1845
MM/10/164Report from the Anemometers (Improvements) Committee on Eiffe's, Molyneux's and Parkinson and Frondheim's proposed improvements in Chronometers1841
MM/10/7A satirical poster holding up to scorn some contemporary astronomers - notably G B Airy and Richard Sheepshanks1843
RR/4/205Referee's report by George Biddell Airy, on a paper 'On the Indian arc of meridian' by John Henry Pratt11 December 1860
RR/3/6Referee's report by George Gabriel Stokes, on a paper 'Account of experiments undertaken in the Harton Colliery for the purpose of determining the mean density of the earth' by George Biddell Airy13 March 1856
RR/7/221Referee's report by James Clerk Maxwell, on a paper 'Magnetical observations in the Britannia and Conway tubular iron bridges' by George Biddell Airy13 May 1873
MC/3/124Letter from George Biddell Airy, Royal Observatory Greenwich, to Samuel Hunter Christie, [Secretary of the Royal Society]9 December 1840
RR/7/204Referee's report by George Biddell Airy, on a paper 'Contributions to terrestrial magnetism - No. XIII' by Edward Sabine2 July 1872
MC/2/237Letter from George Biddell Airy, Royal Observatory Greenwich to John George Children, Secretary of the Royal Society9 January 1837
RR/6/35Second referee's report by George Biddell Airy, on a paper 'Discussion of tide observations at Bristol' by T G Bunt15 December 1866
RR/6/34Referee's report by George Biddell Airy, on a paper 'Discussion of tide observations at Bristol' by T G Bunt23 October 1866
RR/1bis/7Referee's report by George Biddell Airy, on a paper 'Tide observations at Otaheite, or Tahiti' by Edward Belcher7 March 1843
RR/7/220Referee's report by William Thomson, Lord Kelvin on a paper 'Magnetical observations in the Britannia and Conway tubular iron bridges' by George Biddell Airy21 April 1873
RR/7/263Referee's report by George Biddell Airy, on a paper 'On the radiation of heat from the moon, the law of its absorption by our atmosphere, and of its variation in amount with her phases' by Laurence Parsons, Earl of Rosse29 May 1873
RR/1/213Referee's report by George Biddell Airy, on a paper 'Contributions to terrestrial magnetism - No. Vl' by Edward Sabine29 June 1843
RR/1/216Referee's report by George Biddell Airy, on a paper 'Contributions to terrestrial magnetism - No. VII' by Edward Sabine1 June 1846
RR/7/267Letter from George Biddell Airy, on a paper 'Magnetic survey of Belgium in 1871' by Stephen Joseph Perry3 March 1873
RR/7/153Referee's report by George Gabriel Stokes, on a paper 'Corrections to the computed lengths of waves of light published in the Philosophical Transactions of the year 1868' by George Biddell Airy23 January 1872
RR/4/70Referee's report by George Biddell Airy, on a paper 'On the mathematical theory of sound' by S Earnshaw9 June 1860
RR/7/310Referee's report by George Biddell Airy, on a paper 'The uniform wave of oscillation' by John Imray1874-05-30
RR/6/25Letter from George Biddell Airy, to George Gabriel Stokes, regarding a paper 'On the corrections of Bouvard’s elements of Jupiter and Saturn (Paris, 1821)' by Hugh Breen9 June 1869
RR/3/8Referee's report by George Peacock, on a paper 'On the construction of the new national standard of length & its principal copies' by George Biddell Airy2 July 1857
RR/1bis/27Referee's report by George Biddell Airy, on a paper 'Researches in physical geology.—second series' by William Hopkins25 May 1840
RR/3/4Referee's report by James Challis, on a paper 'Account of pendulum experiments undertaken in the Harton Colliery, for the purpose of determining the mean density of the earth' by George Biddell Airy18 February 1856
RR/6/78Referee's report by George Biddell Airy, on a paper 'Abstract of the results of the comparisons of the standards of length of England, France, Belgium, Prussia, Russia, India, Australia, made at the ordnance Survey Office, Southampton' by Henry James and Alexander Ross Clarke13 February 1867
RR/6/238Referee's report by George Biddell Airy, on a paper 'On waves in liquids' by William John Macquorn Rankine16 June 1868
RR/7/2Referee's report by Archibald Smith, on a paper 'Note on an extension of the comparison of magnetic disturbances with magnetic effects inferred from observed terrestrial galvanic currents; and discussion of the magnetic effects inferred from galvanic currents on days of tranquil magnetism' by George Biddell Airy24 March 1870
RR/9/1Referee's report by Edward James Stone on a paper 'Monthly means of the highest and lowest diurnal tem­peratures of the water of the Thames, and comparison with the corresponding temperatures of the air at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich' by George Biddell Airy28 October 1882
RR/2/3Letter by George Peacock, accompanying his report on a paper 'On the eclipses of Agathocles, Thales and Xerxes' by George Biddell Airy10 February 1853
RR/1/105Referee's report by George Biddell Airy, on a paper 'On the state of the interior of the earth' by William Hopkins19 April 1839
RR/2/24Referee's report by George Biddell Airy, on a paper 'Report of observations made upon the tidal streams of the English Channel and the German Ocean' by Frederick William Beechey24 March 1851
RR/1bis/36Referee's report by George Biddell Airy, on a paper 'Observations on certain cases of elliptic polarization of light by reflexion' by Baden Powell7 March 1843
RR/4/274Referee's report by George Biddell Airy, on a paper 'On magnetic storms and earth-currents' by Charles Vincent Walker21 March 1861
NLB/67/686Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Mrs G. B. Pocock14 February 1925
RR/7/432Referee's report by Maxwell Tylden Masters, on a paper 'On the leaf-arrangement of the crowberry (empetrum nigrum)' by Hubert Airy24 July 1876
RR/3/151Referee's report by George Biddell Airy, on a paper 'On the deflection of the plumb-line at Arthur's seat, and the mean specific gravity of the earth' by Colonel H James20 March 1836
RR/5/213Referee's report by George Biddell Airy, on a paper 'On the exact form of waves near the surface of deep water' by William John Macquorn Rankine30 March 1863
NLB/67/648Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Mrs G. B. Pocock; Parkhill Studios, Haverstock Hill, N.W.3.6 February 1925
MC/9/460Letter from Abria, Faculty of Science, Academy of Bordeaux, Bordeaux, to [George Biddell Airy], President of the Royal Society18 December 1872
MS/427/354Copy letter from [Thomas Henry] Huxley, President of the Royal Society; to the Secretary of the Admiralty29 March 1884
MS/427/425Copy letter from [Michael] Foster, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir. George Airy6 May 1885
MS/426/640Copy letter from C R [Charles Richard] Weld, the Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to [George Biddell] Airy Esq13 July 1858
MS/427/110Copy letter from [Thomas Henry] Huxley, Secretary of the Royal Society; to the Secretary of the H. M. Treasury17 June 1881
MS/426/103Copy letter from [Charles Richard Weld] the Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to [George Biddell] Airy Esq., Greenwich4 November 1844
MS/426/167Copy letter from C R [Charles Richard] Weld, the Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Thos [Thomas] Wyon Esq.3 December 1845
MS/426/293Copy letter from C R [Charles Richard] Weld, the Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir John [Frederick William] Herschel; to G B [George Biddell] Airy Esq; to Sir B [Benjamin Collins] Brodie; to Leonard Horner1 November 1847
MC/4/308Letter from [George Biddell] Airy, Royal Observatory Greenwich, to [Charles Richard] Weld, [Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society]6 December 1849
MC/4/182Letter from George Biddell Airy, Altona, to Samuel Hunter Christie, Secretary of the Royal Society13 September 1847
MC/4/55Letter from George Biddell Airy, Royal Observatory Greenwich, to Sir John William Lubbock, [Treasurer of the Royal Society]7 March 1845
MC/4/326Letter from [George Biddell] Airy, Royal Observatory Greenwich, to [Charles Richard] Weld, [Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society]18 February 1850
MS/426/451Note of a letter from [the Secretaries of] the Royal Society; to various individuals20 June 1851
MS/426/433Copy letter from S [Samuel] Hunter Christie, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr Lloyd; to [George Biddell] Airy; to Sir D [David] Brewster; to J [John Frederick William] Herschel; to Prof [James David] Forbes; W H [William Hallowes] Miller; Baden Powell; and Dr Thewell16 November 1850
MS/426/69Copy letter from [Samuel] Hunter Christie, Secretary of the Royal Society; to [George Biddel] Airy, Esq, Astronomer Royal, Royal Observatory, Greenwich19 January 1843
MS/426/75Copy letter from [Samuel] Hunter Christie, Secretary of the Royal Society; to [George Biddell] Airy, Esq., [Astronomer Royal], Royal Observatory, Greenwich.20 October 1843
MS/426/44Copy letter from [John William] Lubbock, Treasurer of the Royal Society; to the Earl of Lincoln [Henry Pelham-Clinton], 172 Whitehall Place11 March 1842
MS/257/1/41Letter from George Biddell Airy, Royal Observatory Greenwhich to Edward Sabine16 April 1857
MC/5/380Letter from G B [George Biddell] Airy, Royal Observatory Greenwich, to Sir J F W [John Frederick William] Herschel21 December 1858
MOB/062British Standard Yard1853
MM/11/145Letter from G B Airy, Greenwich Observatory, to Lord Northampton28 June 1840
MM/9/69Letter from G B Airy, Royal Observatory, Greenwich, to Edward Cooper17 September 1850
MS/743/1/47Letter from George Biddell Airy, Royal Observatory, Greenwich, London, to John Hall Gladstone23 May 1860
MM/9/53Letter from G B Airy, Royal Observatory, Greenwich, to Edward Cooper27 February 1845
MM/10/87Copy of a letter from G B Airy, Carlisle, to Sir Edward Sabine3 October 1870
MC/5/257Letter from G B [George Biddell] Airy, Royal Observatory Greenwich, to Professor [George Gabriel] Stokes, Secretary of the Royal Society19 August 1856
MM/9/67Letter from G B Airy, Royal Observatory, Greenwich, to Edward Cooper13 July 1850
MM/9/51Letter from G B Airy, Royal Observatory, Greenwich, to Edward Cooper12 February 1842
MM/9/73Letter from G B Airy, Royal Observatory, Greenwich, to Edward Cooper4 March 1851
MM/9/70Letter from G B Airy, Royal Observatory, Greenwich, to Edward Cooper14 October 1850
MM/11/31Notes by Edward Sabine and C R Weld on the standard weights and measures20 October 1853
MM/19/108Letter from George Biddell Airy to Edward Sabine12 April 1853
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IM/000045Airy, Sir George Biddellnd
RR/3/127Referee's report by George Biddell Airy, on a paper 'On the problem of three bodies' by Charles James Hargreave2 December 1858
RR/2/206Referee's report by William Henry Smyth, on a paper 'On the eclipses of Agathocles, Thales and Xerxes' by George Biddell Airy26 February 1853
RR/6/24Second referee's report by George Biddell Airy, on a paper 'On the corrections of Bouvard’s elements of Jupiter and Saturn (Paris, 1821)' by Hugh Breen17 April 1869
RR/6/8Referee's report by William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, on a paper 'Comparison of magnetic disturbances recorded by the self-registering magnetometers at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, with magnetic disturbances deduced from the corresponding terrestrial galvanic currents recorded by the self-registering galvanometers of the Royal Observatory' by George Biddell Airy8 May 1868
RR/6/142Referee's report by George Biddell Airy, on a paper 'On the tides of the Arctic Seas. - Part III. On the semidiurnal tides of Frederiksdal, near Cape Farewell, in Greenland' by Samuel Haughton9 May 1866
RR/7/154Referee's report by William Hallowes Miller, on a paper 'Corrections to the computed lengths of waves of light published in the Philosophical Transactions of the year 1868' by George Biddell Airy26 January 1872
RR/7/178Referee's report by George Biddell Airy, on a paper 'On the present amount of westerly magnetic declination [variation of the compass] on the coast of Great Britain, and its annual changes' by Frederick John Owen Evans2 July 1872
RR/7/265Referee's report by George Biddell Airy, on a paper 'Magnetic survey of Belgium in 1871' by Stephen Joseph Perry25 February 1873
RR/7/476Referee's report by George Biddell Airy, on a paper 'Contributions to terrestrial magnetism - No. XV' by Edward Sabine19 October 1876
RR/8/76Referee's report by John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, on a paper 'On the tides at Malta' by George Biddell Airy14 January 1878
RR/7/1Letter from George Biddell Airy, on his paper 'Note on an extension of the comparison of magnetic disturbances with magnetic effects inferred from observed terrestrial galvanic currents; and discussion of the magnetic effects inferred from galvanic currents on days of tranquil magnetism' to the Secretary of the Royal Society7 February 1870
RR/1bis/44Referee's report by George Biddell Airy, on a paper 'Contributions to terrestrial magnetism.—No. IV' by Edward Sabine26 May 1843
MC/4/297Letter from [George Biddell] Airy, Royal Observatory Greenwich, to Thomas Bell, Secretary of the Royal Society14 November 1849
MC/5/65Letter from G B [George Biddell] Airy, Royal Observatory Greenwich, to Colonel [Edward] Sabine, [Treasurer of the Royal Society]2 December 1852
MM/9/62Letter from G B Airy, Royal Observatory, Greenwich, to Edward Cooper25 May 1849
MM/9/55Letter from G B Airy, Royal Observatory, Greenwich, to Edward Cooper23 December 1845
RR/1/119Referee's report by George Biddell Airy, on a paper 'On the theory of the astronomical refractions' by James Ivory11 July 1838
RR/3/5Referee's report by James Challis, on a paper 'Account of pendulum experiments undertaken in the Harton Colliery, for the purpose of determining the mean density of the earth' by George Biddell Airy26 February 1856
RR/2/193Referee's report by George Biddell Airy, on a paper 'On the attraction of the Himalaya Mountains, and of the elevated regions beyond them, upon the plumb-line in India' by John Henry Pratt26 December 1854
RR/3/3Referee's report by George Peacock, on a paper 'Discussion of the observed deviations of the compass in several ships, wood-built and iron-built: with a general Table for facilitating the examination of compass-deviations' by George Biddell Airy1855
MC/4/334Letter from [George Biddell] Airy, Royal Observatory Greenwich, to [Samuel Hunter] Christie, Secretary of the Royal Society18 March 1850
EC/1836/01Airy, Sir George Biddell: certificate of election to the Royal Society
MC/3/221Letter from George Biddell Airy, Royal Observatory Greenwich, to the Marquis of Northampton, President of the Royal Society6 June 1842
MC/3/257Letter from George Biddell Airy, Royal Observatory Greenwich, to Samuel Hunter Christie, Secretary of the Royal Society19 December 1842
MC/1/155Letter from [George Biddell] Airy, Trinity College Cambridge, to Francis Baily, 37 Tavistock Place22 January 1828
PT/26/1Paper, 'On the laws of the rise and fall of the tide in the River Thames' by G B [George Biddell] Airy25 June 1841
VF/01Portrait of Sir George Biddell Airy by Carlo Pellegrini13 November 1875
PT/20/3Paper, 'On an inequality of long period in the motion of the earth and Venus' by George Biddell Airy8 November 1831
RR/1/215Referee's report by George Biddell Airy, on a paper 'On the lunar atmospheric tide at St. Helena' by Edward Sabine3 March 1847
RR/1/84Referee's report by George Biddell Airy, on a paper 'On the comet of 1844-45' by John Collingwood Haile16 February 1846
RR/2/6Referee's report by William Hopkins, on a paper 'On the computation of the effect of the attraction of mountain-masses, as disturbing the apparent astronomical latitude of stations in geodetic surveys' by George Biddell Airy31 January 1855
PT/46/4/4Plate, 'The Turkish Empire in Europe and Asia with the Kingdom of Greece' by J [John] and C [Charles] Walker[1852]
PT/32/9Paper, 'On the amount of the radiation of heat, at night, from the earth, and from various bodies placed on or near the surface of the earth' by James Glaisher[1847]
RR/1/106Referee's report by George Biddell Airy, on a paper 'On the state of the interior of the earth' by William Hopkins22 April 1839
RR/4/82Letter from George Biddell Airy, on a paper 'Reduction and discussion of the deviations of the compass observed on board of all the iron-built ships, and a selection of the wood-built steam-ships in Her Majesty's Navy, and the iron steam-ship 'Great Eastern'' by Frederick John Evans27 June 1860
RR/1bis/45Referee's report by George Biddell Airy, on a paper 'Contributions to terrestrial magnetism. — No. VIII' by Edward Sabine23 June 1846
MC/2Volume 2 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1832-1838
PT/42/3Paper, 'On the relation of the direction of the wind to the age of the moon, as inferred from observations made at the Royal Observatory Greenwich, from 1840 November to 1847 December' by G B [George Biddell] Airy24 December 1850
PT/46/4/1Manuscript, 'On the eclipses of Agathocles, Thales, and Xerxes' by G B [George Biddell] Airy10 December 1852
RR/2/262Referee's report by George Biddell Airy, on a paper 'Researches on the tides.—fourteenth series. on the results of continued tide observations at several places on the british coasts' by William Whewell11 February 1850
PT/42/15Paper, 'Report of observations made upon the tidal streams of the English Channel and the German Ocean' by Captain F W [Frederick William] Beechey11 March 1851
PT/46/4/3Plate, 'Map to illustrate the eclipse of Thales' by George Biddell Airy[1852]
PT/68/3/2Plate, beams undergoing force from various directions by [George Biddell Airy]30 September 1862
RR/1/108Referee's report by George Biddell Airy, on a paper 'On the state of the interior of the earth' by William Hopkins11 August 1839
PT/68/13/1Manuscript, 'On the diurnal inequalities of terrestrial magnetism, as deduced from observations made at the Royal Observatory of Greenwich, from 1841 to 1857' by George Biddell Airy2 April 1863
RR/3/1Referee's report by Humphrey Lloyd, on a paper 'Discussion of the observed deviations of the compass in several ships, wood-built and iron-built: with a general table for facilitating the examination of compass-deviations' by George Biddell Airy29 October 1855
PT/50/3/3Plate, table land on spheroidal surface of earth with lava underneath by George Biddell Airy19 January 1855
PT/54/5Paper, 'Account of pendulum experiments undertaken in the Harton Colliery, for the purpose of determining the mean density of the earth' by G B [George Biddell] Airy[1855]
PT/50/3/1Manuscript, 'On the computation of the effect of the attraction of mountain-masses, as disturbing the apparent astronomical latitude of stations in geodetic surveys' by G B [George Biddell] Airy19 January 1855
MC/2/144Letter from Joseph Barclay Pentland, Rue de l'Université, Paris, to John William Lubbock, [Treasurer of the Royal Society]14 November 1834
PT/54/5/1Manuscript, 'Account of pendulum experiments undertaken in the Harton Colliery, for the purpose of determining the mean density of the earth' by G B [George Biddell] Airy[1855]
PT/54/5/3Plate, map of County Durham, England by [George Biddell Airy][1855]
PT/54/5/2Plate, Shelton pendulum clock and experimental apparatus by [George Biddell Airy][1855]
PT/59/1Paper, 'Account of the construction of the new national standard of length, and of its principal copies' by G B [George Biddell] Airy8 April 1857
RR/4/26Referee's report by George Biddell Airy, on a paper 'On the bifalar magnetometer' by John Allan Broun25 April 1860
RR/4/83Referee's report by George Biddell Airy, on a paper 'Reduction and discussion of the deviations of the compass observed on board of all the iron-built ships, and a selection of the wood-built steam-ships in Her Majesty's Navy, and the iron steam-ship 'Great Eastern'' by Frederick John Evans25 April 1860
RR/4/1Referee's report by Charles Wheatstone, on a paper 'On the difference in the magnetic properties of hot-rolled and cold-rolled malleable iron, as regards the power of receiving and retaining induced magnetism of subpermanent character' by George Biddell Airy27 June 1862
PT/68/13/5Plate, curves of diurnal change in magnitude and direction 1848-1857 for each month of year by [George Biddell Airy][1863]
PT/68/3Paper, 'On the strains in the interior of beams' by George Biddell Airy30 September 1862
PT/46/4/2Plate, 'Map to illustrate the eclipse of Agathocles' by George Biddell Airy[1852]
RR/4/206Second referee's report by George Biddell Airy, on a paper 'On the Indian arc of meridian' by John Henry Pratt4 June 1861
MC/2/282Letter from George Biddell Airy, Royal Observatory Greenwich, to Samuel Hunter Christie, Secretary of the Royal Society29 March 1838
RR/5/5Referee's report by Archibald Smith, on a paper 'On the diurnal inequalities of terrestrial magnetism, as deduced from observations made at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, from 1841 to 1857' by George Biddell Airy20 December 1863
MC/3Volume 3 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1839-1843
PT/68/13/4Plate, curves of diurnal change in magnitude and direction 1841-1847 for each month of year by [George Biddell Airy][1863]
PT/68/3/4Plate, strains in interior of beams with ends resting on piers by [George Biddell Airy]30 September 1862
PT/68/3/1Manuscript, 'On the strains in the interior of beams' by George Biddell Airy30 September 1862
PT/68/3/3Plate, strains in interior of beams with ends resting on piers by [George Biddell Airy]30 September 1862
MC/3/102Letter from George Biddell Airy, Royal Observatory Greenwich, to John William Lubbock, [Treasurer of the Royal Society]3 July 1840
MC/3/109Letter from George Biddell Airy, Royal Observatory Greenwich, to the Marquis of Northampton, President of the Royal Society27 October 1840
PT/68/13/7Plate, curves of diurnal change in magnitude and sign of vertical magnetic force 1849-1857 by [George Biddell Airy][1863]
PT/68/13/2Plate, curves of diurnal change in magnitude and direction 1841-1847 by [George Biddell Airy][1863]
PT/68/13/3Plate, curves of diurnal change in magnitude and direction 1848-1857 by [George Biddell Airy][1863]
PT/68/13/6Plate, curves of diurnal change in magnitude and sign of vertical magnetic force 1842-1847 by [George Biddell Airy][1863]
MC/3/146Letter from George Biddell Airy, Royal Observatory Greenwich, to Francis Baily, Chairman of the Committee of Astronomy12 March 1841
MC/3/160Letter from George Biddell Airy, Royal Observatory Greenwich, to Dr. [Peter Mark] Roget, Secretary of the Royal Society11 May 1841
MC/3/202Letter from George Biddell Airy, Royal Observatory Greenwich, to Sir John F.W. Herschel22 January 1842
MC/4/12Letter from Lieutenant-Colonel Edward Sabine, [Foreign Secretary of the Royal Society], Woolwich, to [Charles Richard] Weld, [Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society]8 March 1844
MC/3/208Letter from Colonel Edward Sabine, 12 Park Place, St James's, to Sir John [William] Lubbock, [Treasurer of the Royal Society]14 March 1842
MC/3/260Letter from George Biddell Airy, Royal Observatory Greenwich, to [John David] Roberton, [Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society]23 January 1843
MC/3/259Letter from Samuel Hunter Christie, Secretary of the Royal Society, the Common, Woolwich, to Dr. [Peter Mark] Roget, [Secretary of the Royal Society]16 January 1843
MC/3/258Letter from George Biddell Airy, Royal Observatory Greenwich, to Samuel Hunter Christie, Secretary of the Royal Society4 January 1843
MC/3/261Letter from George Biddell Airy, Royal Observatory Greenwich, to Samuel Hunter Christie, Secretary of the Royal Society24 January 1843
MC/3/267Letter from George Biddell Airy, Royal Observatory Greenwich, to [John David] Roberton, [Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society]22 February 1843
MC/3/286Letter from George Biddell Airy, Royal Observatory Greenwich, to Samuel Hunter Christie, Secretary of the Royal Society25 May 1843
MC/3/289Letter from Richard Sheepshanks to the Marquis of Northampton, [President of the Royal Society] c. May 1843
MC/3/242Letter from George Biddell Airy, Royal Observatory Greenwich, to George Fisher, Secretary of the Astronomical Committee of the Royal Society29 October 1842
MC/3/294Letter from George Biddell Airy, Royal Observatory Greenwich, to Samuel Hunter Christie, Secretary of the Royal Society27 June 1843
MC/9/427Letter from Ferdinand Thomas, teacher of chemistry at Bruce Castle, Tottenham, 2 Somerford Terrace, Park Lane, Tottenham, to [George Biddell Airy], President of the Royal Society1 November 1872
RR/6/7Referee's report by William Hallowes Miller, on a paper 'Computation of the lengths of the waves of light corresponding to the lines in the dispersion spectrum measured by Kirchhoff' by George Biddell Airy19 June 1867
MC/1Volume 1 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1800-1831
MC/4/58Letter from George Biddell Airy, Royal Observatory Greenwich, to Sir John William Lubbock, [Treasurer of the Royal Society]12 March 1845
MC/4/48Letter from [George Biddell] Airy, Royal Observatory Greenwich, to Samuel Hunter Christie, Secretary of the Royal Society11 December 1844
MC/4/54Letter from George Biddell Airy, Royal Observatory Greenwich, to Samuel Hunter Christie, [Secretary of the Royal Society]25 February 1845
MC/4/71Letter from George Biddell Airy, Royal Observatory Greenwich, to [George] Peacock, Dean of Ely and Chairman of the Committee of Physics at the Royal Society7 May 1845
MS/257/1/42Letter from George Biddell Airy, Royal Observatory Greenwhich to John Frederick William Herschel21 December 1858
MC/4/280Letter from [George Biddell] Airy, Royal Observatory Greenwich, to [Samuel Hunter] Christie, Secretary of the Royal Society7 May 1849
MM/9/59Letter from G B Airy, Royal Observatory, Greenwich, to Edward Cooper14 April 1849
MC/4/273Letter from [George Biddell] Airy, Royal Observatory Greenwich, to the Chairman of the Committee on Scientific Committees11 January 1849
MS/426/385Copy letter from C R [Charles Richard] Weld, the Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Edward [Joshua] Cooper Esq15 June 1849
MC/4/299Letter from [George Biddell] Airy, Royal Observatory Greenwich, to the Secretary of the Astronomical Committee of the Royal Society16 November 1849
MM/9/64Letter from G B Airy, Royal Observatory, Greenwich, to Edward Cooper20 November 1849
MS/426/397Copy letter from Thos [Thomas] Bell, Secretary of the Royal Society; to [Edward] Cooper, Esq30 November 1849
MC/4/301Letter from [George Biddell] Airy, Royal Observatory Greenwich, to Thomas Bell, Secretary of the Royal Society20 November 1849
MC/5/30Letter from G B [George Biddell] Airy, Royal Observatory Greenwich, to S H [Samuel Hunter] Christie, Secretary of the Royal Society31 January 1852
MC/4Volume 4 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1844-1850
MC/5/51Letter from G B [George Biddell] Airy, Royal Observatory Greenwich, to S H [Samuel Hunter] Christie, Secretary of the Royal Society29 September 1852
PT/27/6iLetter, correction to 'The laws of tides at Southampton and Ipswich' by G B [George Biddell] Airy to R [Richard] and J E [John Edward] Taylor21 March 1843
MC/5/133Letter from G B [George Biddell] Airy, Royal Observatory Greenwich, to Colonel [Edward] Sabine, [Treasurer of the Royal Society] 19 December 1853
MC/5/149Letter from G B [George Biddell] Airy, Royal Observatory Greenwich, to Colonel [Edward] Sabine, Foreign Secretary of the Royal Society6 March 1854
PT/34/8Paper, 'On the corrections to be applied to the monthly mean of meteorological observations taken at any hour, to convert them into mean monthly values' by James Glaisher10 February 1848
MC/5/160Letter from G B [George Biddell] Airy, Royal Observatory Greenwich, to Colonel [Edward] Sabine, [Treasurer of the Royal Society]8 April 1854
MC/5/211Letter from G B [George Biddell] Airy, Royal Observatory Greenwich, to C R [Charles Richard] Weld, [Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society], Somerset House14 September 1855
MC/5/213Letter from G B [George Biddell] Airy, Royal Observatory Greenwich, to Walter White, Royal Society, Somerset House18 September 1855
MC/5/227Letter from G B [George Biddell] Airy, Royal Observatory Greenwich, to C R [Charles Richard] Weld, [Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society]13 February 1856
MC/5/243Letter from G B [George Biddell] Airy, Royal Observatory Greenwich, Colonel [Edward] Sabine, [Treasurer of the Royal Society]6 May 1856
MC/5/239Letter from G B [George Biddell] Airy, Royal Observatory Greenwich, to Professor [George Gabriel] Stokes, [Secretary of the Royal Society]26 April 1856
MC/5Volume 5 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1851-1858
MC/6Volume 6 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1859-1863
RR/1bis/13Referee's report by George Biddell Airy, on a paper 'On the steam-wave', by Thomas Boys9 May 1842
PT/50/3Paper, 'On the computation of the effect of the attraction of mountain-masses, as disturbing the apparent astronomical latitude of stations in geodetic surveys' by G B [George Biddell] Airy19 January 1855
PT/50/3/2Plate, table land on spheroidal surface of earth by George Biddell Airy19 January 1855
MC/6/374Letter from J W [John William] Dawson, principal, University of McGill College, Montreal, to the Secretary of the Royal Society, London8 December 1863
MC/6/368Letter from G B [George Biddell] Airy, Royal Observatory, Greenwich, London, to Walter White, [Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society]24 November 1863
MC/6/352Letter from G B [George Biddell] Airy, Royal Observatory, Greenwich, to Professor [George Gabriel] Stokes, Secretary of the Royal Society13 October 1863
MC/6/372Letter from G B [George Biddell] Airy, Royal Observatory, Greenwich, London, to Walter White, [Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society]30 November 1863
MC/7/317Letter from G B [George Biddell] Airy, Royal Observatory Greenwich, London, to Professor [George Gabriel] Stokes, Secretary of the Royal Society31 March 1866
MC/7/309Letter from W [William] Sharpey, [Secretary of the Royal Society], to General [Edward] Sabine, [President of the Royal Society]19 February 1866
MC/8/18Letter from G B [George Biddell] Airy, Royal Observatory Greenwich, London, to Walter White, [Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society]25 February 1867
MC/8/14Letter from G B [George Biddell] Airy, Royal Observatory Greenwich, London, to Walter White, [Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society]15 February 1867
RR/6/151Second referee's report by George Biddell Airy, on a paper 'Further observations on the spectra of some the stars and nebulae, with an attempt to determine therefrom whether these bodies are moving towards or from the earth, also observations on the spectra of the sun and of comet II., 1868' by William Huggins18 July 1868
MC/8/185Letter from G B [George Biddell] Airy, Royal Observatory Greenwich, London, to Professor [George Gabriel] Stokes, Secretary of the Royal Society4 May 1868
MC/8/234Letter from G B [George Biddell] Airy, Royal Observatory Greenwich, London, to Professor [George Gabriel] Stokes, Secretary of the Royal Society21 July 1868
MC/8/262Letter from G B [George Biddell] Airy, Royal Observatory Greenwich, London, to Professor [George Gabriel] Stokes, Secretary of the Royal Society28 October 1868
MC/8/318Letter from G B [George Biddell] Airy, Royal Observatory Greenwich, London, to Walter White, [Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society]15 February 1869
MC/11/4Letter from G B [George Biddell] Airy, Playford, near Ipswich, to Professor [George Gabriel] Stokes, Secretary of the Royal Society13 January 1877
RR/1/120Referee's report by George Biddell Airy, on a paper 'Of such ellipsoids, consisting of homogeneous matter, as are capable of having the resultant of the attraction of the mass upon a particle in the surface, and a centrifugal force caused by re­volving about one of the axes, made perpendicular to the surface' by James Ivory10 February 1838
RR/1/131Referee's report by George Biddell Airy, on a paper 'Description of an escapement for an astronomical clock, invented by the late Captain Henry Kater' by Henry Kater and Edward Kater17 June 1840
RR/1bis/25Referee's report by George Biddell Airy, on a paper [attributed] 'On the calculation of attractions, and the figure of the earth' by Charles James Hargreave24 March 1841
RR/2/191Referee's report by George Biddell Airy, on a paper 'Remarks on certain points in experiments on the diffraction of light' by Baden Powell5 April 1852
RR/5/2Referee's report by Humphrey Lloyd, on a paper 'On the diurnal inequalities of terrestrial magnetism, as deduced from observations made at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, from 1841 to 1857' by George Biddell Airy10 June 1863
RR/5/8Referee's report by John Frederick William Herschel, on a paper 'First analysis of one hundred and seventy-seven magnetic storms, registered by the magnetic instruments in the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, from 1841 to 1857' by George Biddell Airy[1864]
RR/5/7Referee's report by John Frederick William Herschel, on a paper 'On the diurnal inequalities of terrestrial magnetism, as deduced from observations made at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, from 1841 to 1857' by George Biddell Airy[1863]
RR/6/23Referee's report by George Biddell Airy, on a paper 'On the corrections of Bouvard’s elements of Jupiter and Saturn (Paris, 1821)' by Hugh Breen23 March 1869
RR/6/10Referee's report by Archibald Smith, on a paper 'On the diurnal and annual inequalities of terrestrial magnetism, as deduced from observations made at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, from 1858 to 1863; being a continuation of a communication on the diurnal inequalities from 1841 to 1857, printed in the Philosophical Transactions, 1863. With a note on the lunodiurnal and other lunar inequalities, as deduced from observations extending from 1848 to 1863' by George Biddell Airy14 April 1869
RR/6/150Referee's report by George Biddell Airy, on a paper 'Further observations on the spectra of some the stars and nebulae, with an attempt to determine therefrom whether these bodies are moving towards or from the earth, also observations on the spectra of the sun and of comet II., 1868' by William Huggins18 July 1868
RR/7/379Referee's report by George Biddell Airy, on two papers 'On the tides of the Arctic Seas. - Part IV. On the tides of Northumberland sound, at the Northern outlet Wellington channel' and 'On the tides of the arctic seas. - Part V. On the tides of refuge cove, wellington channel' by Samuel Haughton16 June 1875
RR/8/181Referee's report by George Biddell Airy, on a paper 'On some recent improvements made the mountings of the telescopes at Birr Castle' by Lawrence Parsons, 4th Earl of Rosse27 November 1879
MC/8/408Extract of a letter from Robert J [John Lewis] Ellery, Melbourne Observatory, to G B [George Biddell] Airy13 August 1869
MC/9/28Letter from G B [George Biddell] Airy, Royal Observatory Greenwich, to General Sir Edward Sabine, President of the Royal Society14 February 1870
MC/9/64Letter from G B [George Biddell] Airy, Royal Observatory, Greenwich, London, to Walter White, [Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society]30 April 1870
MC/9/79Letter from G B [George Biddell] Airy, Royal Observatory Greenwich, to General Sir Edward Sabine, President of the Royal Society18 May 1870
MC/9/100Letter from G B [George Biddell] Airy, Barrow House, Keswick, to General Sir Edward Sabine, [President of the Royal Society]21 June 1870
MC/9/101Letter from G B [George Biddell] Airy, Barrow House, Keswick, to General Sir E [Edward] Sabine, [President of the Royal Society]21 June 1870
MC/9/95Letter from G B [George Biddell] Airy, Royal Observatory Greenwich, London, to Professor [George Gabriel] Stokes, Secretary of the Royal Society11 June 1870
MC/9/181Letter from G B [George Biddell] Airy, Flamsteed House, Greenwich, to William E Spottiswoode, Treasurer of the Royal Society20 March 1871
MC/9/219Letter from G B [George Biddell] Airy, Royal Observatory Greenwich, London, to Walter White, [Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society]22 June 1871
MC/9/222Letter from G B [George Biddell] Airy, Royal Observatory Greenwich, London, to Walter White, [Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society]24 June 1871
MC/9/293Letter from Francis Grant, Royal Academy of Arts, Burlington House, Piccadilly, London, to [George Biddell] Airy, [President of the Royal Society]18 December 1871
MC/9/295Letter from G B [George Biddell] Airy, President of the Royal Society, Royal Observatory Greenwich, London, to Walter White, [Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society]22 December 1871
MC/9/297Letter from Fredr [Frederick] J Stanton, Acting Secretary of the Colorado Agricultural Society, Denver, Colorado, United States, to [George Biddell Airy], President of the Royal Society, London, England23 December 1871
MC/9/318Letter from J Rouget, 92 rue du pont, Auxerre, to [George Biddell Airy], President of the Royal Society29 January 1872
MC/9/359Letter from François Edouard Paumier, Bief, Sainte Hippolyte, Doubs, to [George Biddell Airy], President of the Royal Society4 April 1872
MC/9/354Letter from William Crookes, 20 Mornington Road, to [George Biddell Airy], President of the Royal Society and to the Council30 March 1872
MC/9/377Letter from G B [George Biddell] Airy, Royal Observatory Greenwich, London, to Dr [William] Sharpey, [Secretary of the Royal Society]18 May 1872
MC/9/380Letter from H [Henry] Rawlinson, President of the Royal Geographical Society, 1 Savile Row, Burlington Gardens, to G B [George Biddell] Airy, President of the Royal Society31 May 1872
MC/9/375Letter from Herman Merivale, India Offices, London, to G B [George Biddell] Airy, President of the Royal Society, Burlington House, Piccadilly16 May 1872
AP/17/9Unpublished letters, 'On the method proposed by Professor [George Biddell] Airy for expanding the disturbing function in his paper in "Philosophical Transactions" for 1833' from James Ivory to the Royal Society1833
MC/9/420Copy letter from G B [George Biddell] Airy, President of the Royal Society, Royal Observatory Greenwich, London, to the Mayor of Modena21 October 1872
MC/9/417Letter from G B [George Biddell] Airy, [President of the Royal Society], Royal Observatory Greenwich, London, to Walter White, [Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society]16 October 1872
MC/9/418Letter from G B [George Biddell] Airy, [President of the Royal Society], Royal Observatory Greenwich, London, to Walter White, [Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society]18 October 1872
MC/9/419Letter from G B [George Biddell] Airy, Astronomer Royal and [President of the Royal Society], Royal Observatory Greenwich, London, to Professor [George Gabriel] Stokes, Secretary of the Royal Society19 October 1872
RR/1/191Referee's report by George Biddell Airy, on a paper 'On the construction and use of single achromatic eye-pieces, and their superiority to the double eye-piece of Huyghens' by Joseph Bancroft Reade25 February 1840
MC/9/442Letter from G B [George Biddell] Airy, [President of the Royal Society], Royal Observatory Greenwich, London, to Walter White, [Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society]6 December 1872
MC/9/444Letter from G B [George Biddell] Airy, [President of the Royal Society], Royal Observatory Greenwich, London, to Walter White, [Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society]10 December 1872
MC/9/411Letter from [Luigi] Tardini, mayor of Modena, and [Alessandro] Plessi, mayor of Vignola, Modena, to [George Biddell Airy], President of the Royal Society, London27 September 1872
MC/9/415Letter from G B [George Biddell] Airy, President of the Royal Society, Royal Observatory Greenwich, London, to the Mayor of Modena7 October 1872
MC/9/416Letter from [Luigi] Tardini, mayor of Modena, Modena, to [George Biddell Airy], President of the Royal Society, London12 October 1872
MC/9/413Letter from Ine de Llano [?], President of the Archaeological Society Valencia, Valencia, to [George Biddell Airy], President of the Royal Society, London4 October 1872
MC/9/454Letter from G B [George Biddell] Airy, [President of the Royal Society], Royal Observatory Greenwich, London, to Walter White, [Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society]16 December 1872
MC/9/456Letter from G B [George Biddell] Airy, [President of the Royal Society], Royal Observatory Greenwich, London, to Walter White, [Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society]17 December 1872
MC/9/470Letter from Lord Enfield, Foreign Office, to [George Biddell Airy], President of the Royal Society6 January 1873
MC/9/474Letter from J Rouget, 7 avenue comte Muraire, by Draguignan, Var, to [George Biddell Airy], President of the Royal Society14 January 1873
MC/9/491Letter from Wm [William] Harkness, US Naval Observatory, Washington, to Sir Geo B [George Biddell] Airy, Astronomer Royal [and President of the Royal Society]11 February 1873
MC/9/505Letter from R Symonds, 232 Kennington Road, to G B [George Biddell] Airy, [President of the Royal Society]28 February 1873
MC/9/487Letter from H [Henry] Rawlinson, President of the Royal Geographical Society, 1 Savile Row, Burlington Gardens, to Sir George Biddell Airy, President of the Royal Society4 February 1873
MC/9/492Letter from James Jago, Lemon House, Truro, Cornwall, to [Thomas Henry Huxley and George Gabriel Stokes], Secretaries of the Royal Society12 February 1873
RR/1/123Referee's report by George Biddell Airy, on a paper 'On certain disturbances of the compass in iron ships' by Edward Johnson10 March 1848
MC/9/486Letter from G B [Giovanni Battista] Donati, Royal Observatory of Florence and Arcetri, to [George Biddell Airy], President of the Royal Society1 February 1873
MC/9/537Letter from Geo [George] Louis Burkitt, 2 Myrniong Terrace, Drummond Street, Carlton, Melbourne, Victoria, to [George Biddell Airy], President of the Royal Society and to the Members, London23 April 1873
MC/9/588Letter from G Dupré, Faculty of Medicine, Montpellier Academy, Montpellier, to [George Biddell Airy], President of the Royal Society21 June 1873
MC/9/589Letter from William Law, Treasury Chambers, to [George Biddell Airy], President of the Royal Society24 June 1873
MC/9/582Letter from C M Mathey, Plombières-les-Bains, to [George Biddell Airy], President of the Royal Society17 June 1873
MC/9Volume 9 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1870-June 1873
MC/10/227Letter from G B [George Biddell] Airy, Royal Observatory Greenwich, London, to Dr Joseph D [Dalton] Hooker, [President of the Royal Society]2 March 1875
MC/10/236Letter from G B [George Biddell] Airy, Royal Observatory Greenwich, London, to Walter White, [Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society]10 April 1875
MC/10/270Letter from G B [George Biddell] Airy, Royal Observatory Greenwich, London, to Professor [George Gabriel] Stokes, [Secretary of the Royal Society]30 June 1875
AP/25/22Unpublished letter, 'On a new method of computing the perturbations of planets where eccentricities and inclinations are not small' from Professor [Peter Andreas] Hansen to G B [George Biddell] Airy14 December 1842
MS/257/1/44Letter from George Biddell Airy, Royal Observatory Greenwhich to Edward Sabine7 April 1870
MS/257/1/40Letter from George Biddell Airy, Playford near Ipswich to Edward Sabine2 January 1857
MC/10Volume 10 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal SocietyJuly 1873-1876
RR/1bis/30Second referee's report by George Biddell Airy, on two papers 'On a cycle of eighteen years in the mean annual height of the barometer in the climate of London, and on a constant variation of the barometrical mean according to the Moon's declination' and 'On the proportions of the prevailing winds, the mean temperature, and depth of rain in the climate of London, computed through a cycle of Eighteen Years, or periods of the Moon’s declination' by Luke Howard2 July 1841
MC/11/32Letter from G B [George Biddell] Airy, Royal Observatory Greenwich, London, to Professor [George Gabriel] Stokes, [Secretary of the Royal Society]22 March 1877
PT/68/13/8Plate, curves of diurnal change in magnitude and sign of vertical magnetic force 1842-1847 for each month of year by [George Biddell Airy][1863]
PT/68/13/9Plate, curves of diurnal change in magnitude and sign of vertical magnetic force 1849-1857 for each month of year by [George Biddell Airy][1863]
PT/69/14Paper, 'First analysis of one hundred and seventy seven magnetic storms, registered by the magnetic instruments in the Royal Observatory Greenwich, from 1841 to 1857' by George Biddell Airy26 November 1863
MS/257/1/38Letter from George Biddell Airy, Trinity College, Cambridge to Edward Sabine26 April 1827
AP/28/2Paper, 'On the automatic registration of magnetometers and other meteorological instruments, by photography' by Charles BrookeJuly 1846
AP/28/2/1Manuscript, 'On the automatic registration of magnetometers and other meteorological instruments, by photography' by Charles BrookeJuly 1845
PT/27/6Paper, 'On the laws of individual tides at Southampton and at Ipswich' by G B [George Biddell] Airy10 February 1843
RR/1bis/28Referee's report by George Biddell Airy, on a paper [attributed] 'On a cycle of eighteen years in the mean annual height of the barometer in the climate of London, and on a constant variation of the barometrical mean according to the Moon's declination' by Luke Howard16 February 1841
MC/11/198Copy letter from G B [George Biddell] Airy, Royal Observatory Greenwich, London, to Professor [George Gabriel] Stokes, [Secretary of the Royal Society]6 April 1878
MC/11/199Copy letter from G G [George Gabriel] Stokes, Secretary of the Royal Society to Lord Lindsay, President of the Astronomical Society 6 April 1878
MS/257/1/39Letter from George Biddell Airy, Playford near Ipswich to Edward Sabine27 December 1856
MS/257/1/45Letter from George Biddell Airy, Royal Observatory Greenwhich to Warren de la Rue10 January 1871
RR/3/7Referee's report by Edward Sabine, on a paper 'Account of the construction of the new national standard of length, and of its principal copies' by George Biddell Airy21 September 1857
RR/2/205Referee's report by George Biddell Airy, on a paper 'On the theory of waves' by Andrew John Robertson15 February 1853
MC/11Volume 11 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1877-1879
MC/12/117Letter from G B [George Biddell] Airy, Royal Observatory, Greenwich, London, to Walter White, [Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society]17 November 1880
MC/12/172Letter from G B [George Biddell] Airy, Playford near Ipswich, to William Spottiswoode, [President of the Royal Society]9 June 1881
RR/4/204Referee's report by George Biddell Airy, on a paper 'On the curvature of the Indian arc' by John Henry Pratt20 December 1859
RR/5/4Letter from George Biddel Airy, to George Gabriel Stokes, regarding a paper 'On the strains in the Interior of beams' by George Biddell Airy22 February 1863
MC/3/204Letter from Sir John F.W. Herschel, Collingwood, to the Royal Society27 January 1842
MC/6/244Letter from J F W [John Frederick William] Herschel, Collingwood, to General [Edward] Sabine, [President of the Royal Society]15 August 1862
MC/12Volume 12 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1880-1883
MC/13/35Letter from G B [George Biddell] Airy, The White House, Greenwich, to Professor [Thomas Henry] Huxley, President of the Royal Society24 March 1884
MC/13/31Letter from G W Underhill, Secretary to the Board of Visitors, Hydrographic Department, Admiralty, to Professor [Thomas Henry] Huxley, President of the Royal Society, Chairman of the Board of Visitors of the Royal Observatory18 March 1884
MC/13/33Letter from G G [George Gabriel] Stokes, [Secretary of the Royal Society], Lensfield Cottage, Cambridge, to [Thomas Henry] Huxley, [President of the Royal Society]21 March 1884
MC/13Volume 13 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1884
RR/7/48Referee's report by George Biddell Airy, on a paper 'On the constitution of the solid crust of the Earth' by Archdeacon John Henry Pratt27 December 1870
AP/49/6Unpublished paper, 'On the integrability of certain partial differential equations proposed by Mr [George Biddell] Airy' by Robert Moon15 April 1867
RR/6/277Referee's report by George Biddell Airy, on a paper 'On the communication of vibration from a vibrating body to a surrounding gas' by George Gabriel Stokes16 July 1868
RR/7/165Referee's report by George Biddell Airy, on a paper 'Researches on solar physics - part III' by Warren De La Rue, Balfour Stewart and Benjamin Loewy23 May 1872
MOB/063British Standard Pound1853
MC/8Volume 8 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1867-1869
RR/8/162Referee's report by George Biddell Airy, on an untraced paper 'Photographic record of the ultraviolet portion of the spectrum derived from the sun and certain stars' by William Huggins24 December 1879
AP/35/2Unpublished paper, 'On the extension of the values of base of Napier's logarithms; of the Napier logarithms of 2, 3, 5 and 10; and of the modulus of Briggs' or the common system of logarithms - all to 205 places of decimals' by William Shanks1 November 1853
MS/257/4/49Copy of a letter from Edward Sabine, Woolwich to [George Biddell] Airy29 November 1848
RR/1/3Referee's report by John Frederick William Herschel, on a paper 'On the theoretical explanation of an apparent new polarity in light' by George Biddell Airy[1832]
MS/257/1/43Letter from George Biddell Airy, Royal Observatory Greenwhich to John Peter Gassiot20 August 1866
MS/257/2/127Letter from George Adolph Erman to George Biddell Airy25 March 1870
RR/1/2Referee's report by William Whewell and John William Lubbock, on a paper 'On an inequality of long period in the motions of the Earth and Venus' by George Biddell Airy12 January 1832
RR/1bis/33Referee's report by George Biddell Airy, on a paper 'On the influence of the moon on the atmospheric pressure, as deduced from the observations of the barometer made at the magnetic observatory at St. Helena' by John Henry Lefroy29 October 1842
RR/2/5Referee's report by George Gabriel Stokes, on a paper 'On the computation of the effect of the attraction of mountain-masses, as disturbing the apparent astronomical latitude of stations in geodetic surveys' by George Biddell Airy30 January 1855
RR/5/102Referee's report by George Biddell Airy, on a paper 'On the tides of the arctic seas. Part I. On the diurnal tides of Port Leopold, North Somerset' by Samuel Haughton27 February 1862
RR/5/109Referee's report by George Biddell Airy, on a paper 'On the Tides of the Arctic Seas.— Part II. The semidiurnal Tides of port leopold, North Somerset' by Samuel Haughton19 December 1862
RR/8/24Referee's report by George Biddell Airy, on a paper 'On the tides of the Arctic Seas. Part VII. Tides of port Kennedy, in Bellot Strait. (Final discussion.)' by Samuel Haughton24 March 1877
MS/626Tenerife Papers of Charles Piazzi Smyth1856-1857
AP/25/1Unpublished paper, 'Explanation of the construction, positions, comparisons, and times of observation, of the meteorological instruments at the Royal Observatory Greenwich, with which the observations have been made that are contained in the sheets of meteorological observations (from 1 and 2 for each month from November 1840 to July 1841, both included)' by G B [George Biddell] AiryOctober 1841
PT/33/1Observations, relating to 'On the amount of the radiation of heat, at night, from the earth, and from various bodies placed on or near the surface of the earth' by James Glaisher1841-1844
PT/34/6Paper, 'Report of experiments made upon the tides in the Irish Sea, and upon the great similarity of tidal phenomena between the Irish and English Channels, and the importance of extending the experiments round the lands end and up the English Channel' in a letter from Captain F W [Frederick William] Beechey to the Hydrographer [Francis Beaufort]19 February 1848
PT/46/4Paper, 'On the eclipses of Agathocles, Thales, and Xerxes' by G B [George Biddell] Airy10 December 1852
PT/52/4Paper, 'Discussion of the observed deviations of the compass in several ships, wood-built and iron-built: with a general table for facilitating the examination of compass-deviations' by G B [George Biddell] Airy31 August 1855
PT/68/13Paper, 'On the diurnal inequalities of terrestrial magnetism, as deduced from observations made at the Royal Observatory of Greenwich, from 1841 to 1857' by George Biddell Airy2 April 1863
RR/1/22Referee's report by George Biddell Airy, on a paper 'Report of observations made upon the tides in the Irish Sea, and upon the great similarity of tidal phenomena of the Irish and English Channels, and the importance of extending the experiments round the Land's End and up the English Channel. Embodied in a letter to the hydrographer' by Frederick William Beechey29 February 1848
RR/1/33Referee's report by George Biddell Airy, on a paper 'On a remarkable property of the diamond' by David Brewster20 March 1841
RR/1/214Referee's report by George Biddell Airy, on a paper 'On the diurnal variation of the magnetic declination at St. Helena' by Edward Sabine3 March 1847
RR/1/229Referee's report by George Biddell Airy, on a paper 'Attempt to apply instrumental measurement to the zodiacal light' by Charles Piazzi Smyth19 June 1848
RR/2/1Referee's report by George Biddell Airy, on a paper 'On the secular variation of the moon's mean motion' by John Couch Adams23 June 1853
RR/2/4Referee's report by George Peacock, on a paper 'On the eclipses of Agathocles, Thales and Xerxes' by George Biddell Airy1853
RR/2/36Referee's report by George Biddell Airy, on a paper 'Further experiments on light' by Henry Lord Brougham17 June 1852
RR/3/2Referee's report by Humphrey Lloyd, on a paper 'Discussion of the observed deviations of the compass in several ships, wood-built and iron-built: with a general table for facilitating the examination of compass-deviations' by George Biddell Airy16 July 1855
RR/3/220Referee's report by George Biddell Airy, on a paper 'On the effect of local attraction upon the plumb-line at stations on the English Arc of the Meridian, between Dunnose and Burleigh Moor; and a method computing its amount' by John Henry Pratt18 October 1855
RR/3/221Referee's report by George Biddell Airy, on a paper 'On the deflection of the plumb-line in India, caused by the attraction of the Himalaya mountains and of the elevated regions beyond; and its modification by the compensating effect of a deficiency of matter below the mountain mass' by John Henry Pratt21 December 1858
RR/3/254Referee's report by George Biddell Airy, on a paper 'Astronomical experiment on the peak of Teneriffe, carried out under the sanction of the lords commissioners of the admiralty' by Charles Piazzi Smyth2 February 1858
RR/4/2Referee's report by Archibald Smith, on a paper 'On the difference in the magnetic properties of hot-rolled and cold-rolled malleable iron, as regards the power of receiving and retaining induced magnetism of subpermanent character' by George Biddell Airy16 July 1862
RR/4/202Referee's report by George Biddell Airy, on a paper 'On the influence of the ocean on the plumb-line in India' by John Henry Pratt4 March 1859
RR/4/220Referee's report by George Biddell Airy, on a paper 'On the construction of specula of six-feet aperture; and a selection from the observations of nebulae made with them' by William Parsons, Lord Rosse20 September 1861
RR/4/244Referee's report by George Biddell Airy, on a paper 'On the effect produced on the deviations of the compass by the length and arrangement of the compass-needles; and on a new mode of correcting the quadrantal deviation' by Archibald Smith and Frederick John Owen Evans17 May 1861
RR/4/276Referee's report by George Biddell Airy, on a paper 'On magnetic calms and earth-currents' by Charles Vincent Walker5 April 1862
RR/5/1Referee's report by William John Macquorn Rankine, on a paper 'On the strains in the Interior of beams' by George Biddell Airy26 January 1863
RR/5/3Letter from George Biddel Airy, to George Gabriel Stokes, regarding a paper 'On the diurnal inequalities of terrestrial magnetism, as deduced from observations made at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, from 1841 to 1857' by George Biddell Airy16 June 1863
RR/5/6Referee's report by James Clerk Maxwell, on a paper 'On the strains in the Interior of beams' by George Biddell Airy[1862]
RR/5/205Referee's report by George Biddell Airy, on a paper 'On the degree of uncertainty which local attraction, if not allowed for, occasions in the map of a country, and in the mean figure of the Earth as determined by geodesy: a method of obtaining the mean figure free from ambiguity, from a comparison of the Anglo-Gallic, Russian, and Indian arcs: and speculations on the constitution of the Earth’s crust' by John Henry Pratt8 April 1864
RR/6/9Referee's report by Charles Wheatstone, on a paper 'Comparison of magnetic disturbances recorded by the self-registering magnetometers at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, with magnetic disturbances deduced from the corresponding terrestrial galvanic currents recorded by the self-registering galvanometers of the Royal Observatory' by George Biddell Airy7 June 1868
RR/6/11Referee's report by William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, on a paper 'On the diurnal and annual inequalities of terrestrial magnetism, as deduced from observations made at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, from 1858 to 1863; being a continuation of a communication on the diurnal inequalities from 1841 to 1857, printed in the Philosophical Transactions, 1863. With a note on the lunodiurnal and other lunar inequalities, as deduced from observations extending from 1848 to 1863' by George Biddell Airy30 March 1869
RR/6/12Second referee's report by Archibald Smith, on a paper 'On the diurnal and annual inequalities of terrestrial magnetism, as deduced from observations made at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, from 1858 to 1863; being a continuation of a communication on the diurnal inequalities from 1841 to 1857, printed in the Philosophical Transactions, 1863. With a note on the lunodiurnal and other lunar inequalities, as deduced from observations extending from 1848 to 1863' by George Biddell Airy19 May 1869
RR/6/13Letter from George Biddell Airy, to George Gabriel Stokes, regarding a paper 'On the diurnal and annual inequalities of terrestrial magnetism, as deduced from observations made at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, from 1858 to 1863; being a continuation of a communication on the diurnal inequalities from 1841 to 1857, printed in the Philosophical Transactions, 1863. With a note on the lunodiurnal and other lunar inequalities, as deduced from observations extending from 1848 to 1863' by George Biddell Airy6 May 1869
RR/6/272Referee's report by George Biddell Airy, on a paper 'On uniform rotation' by Charles William Siemens29 May 1866
RR/7/3Referee's report by Charles Wheatstone, on a paper 'Note on an extension of the comparison of magnetic disturbances with magnetic effects inferred from observed terrestrial galvanic currents; and discussion of the magnetic effects inferred from galvanic currents on days of tranquil magnetism' by George Biddell Airy21 April 1870
RR/7/151Referee's report by William Thomson, Lord Kelvin, on a paper 'Experiments on the directive power of large steel magnets, of bars of magnetized soft iron, and of galvanic coils, in their action on external small magnets. With appendix, containing an investigation of the attraction of a galvanic coil on a small magnetic mass' by George Biddell Airy10 May 1872
RR/7/152Referee's report by James Clerk Maxwell, on a paper 'Experiments on the directive power of large steel magnets, of bars of magnetized soft iron, and of galvanic coils, in their action on external small magnets. With appendix, containing an investigation of the attraction of a galvanic coil on a small magnetic mass' by George Biddell Airy17 May 1872
RR/7/230Referee's report by George Biddell Airy, on a paper 'Results of the comparisons of the standards of length of England, Austria, Spain, United States, Cape of Good Hope, and of a second Russian standard, made at the Ordnance Survey Office, Southampton. With a preface and notes on the Greek and Egyptian measures of length by Sir Henry James' by Alexander Ross Clarke1 July 1873
RR/7/341Referee's report by George Biddell Airy, on a paper 'Contributions to terrestrial magnetism - No. XIV' by Edward Sabine9 July 1874
RR/1bis/26Referee's report by George Biddell Airy, on two papers, [attributed] 'On the calculation of attractions, and the figure of the earth' by Charles James Hargreave, and 'On the compensations of polarized light, with the description of a polarimeter for Measuring Degrees of Polarization' by David Brewster9 June 1841
MS/426/845Copy letter from Walter White; to [George Biddell] Airy28 November 1863
MC/14/59Letter from Warren de la Rue, Portland Place, to [Thomas Henry] Huxley1 July 1885
MC/14Volume 14 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1885-1888
AP/20/8Unpublished letter, 'Report upon a letter addressed by the Baron de Humboldt to HRH the President of the Royal Society and communicated by HRH to the Council' from S [Samuel] Hunter Christie and G B [George Biddell] Airy to the President of the Royal Society9 June 1836
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