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1 - Letter from H Rix, Assistant Secretary, Royal Society, to Prof TG Bonney
2 - Letter from William Huggins, Upper Tulse Hill, to TG Bonney
3 - Letter from William Huggins, Upper Tulse Hill, to TG Bonney
4 - Letter from William Huggins, Upper Tulse Hill, to TG Bonney
5 - Letter from William Huggins, Upper Tulse Hill, to TG Bonney
6 - Letter from William Huggins, Upper Tulse Hill, to TG Bonney
7 - William Whiston and Humphrey Ditton, 'Reasons for a Bill proposing a Reward for the Discovery of the Longitude'
8 - Board of Longitude Resolution
9 - Board of Longitude Resolution
10 - Board of Longitude Resolution Printing Account
11 - Letter from Nevil Maskelyne to Joseph Banks
12 - 'Instruments burnt in the fire at Greenwich Hospital January 2nd 1779'
13 - 'Instruments belonging to the Board of Longitude'
14 - Board of Longitude 'Conditions Upon which a Reward of One Thousand Pounds will be given by the Commissioners... to such Person or Persons as shall discover... the Art of making Flint Glass proper for the purpose of constructing ACROMATIC TELESCOPES...
15 - Auditors' report on Board of Longitude's accounts, by Nevil Maskelyne and Anthony Shepherd
16 - Board of Longitude Resolution
17 - Board of Longitude Resolution
18 - Committee of the Board of Longitude
19 - Committee of the Board of Longitude
20 - Letter from the Board of Longitude about the premium offered for making flint glass, for use in telescopes
21 - Letter from James King, Serle Street, to the Board of Longitude
22 - William Bayley, 'Some Account of a 15 Inch Sextant made by Mr Ramsden'
23 - Board of Longitude, Some notes about a controversy between Jesse Ramsden and William Bayley, concerning a 15 Inch Sextant made by Ramsden
24 - Fair copy of some resolutions and a sheet of rough notes, from a meeting of the Board of Longitude
25 - Letter from William Wales, Christ's Hospital, to Jesse Ramsden
26 - Rough minutes of meeting of the Board of Longitude
27 - 'A List of the Commissioners of Longitude'
28 - Rough minutes of meeting of the Board of Longitude
29 - Minutes of meetings of the Board of Longitude, 13 July and 7 August 1782
30 - A fragment in Joseph Banks's hand, 'Papers sent to Mr Parker, August 29 1782'
31 - Rough minutes of meeting of the Board of Longitude
32 - Rough minutes of meeting of the Board of Longitude
33 - Rough minutes of meeting of the Board of Longitude
34 - Memorandum on Naval schoolmasters by the Board of Longitude
35 - Letter from the Navy Board to the Admiralty
36 - Letter from Sir Harry Parker, Secretary, Board of Longitude, Admiralty Office, to Sir Joseph Banks, Nevil Maskelyne and Anthony Shepherd
37 - Letter from Nevil Maskelyne, Greenwich
38 - Rough minutes of meeting of the Board of Longitude
39 - Rough minutes of meeting of the Board of Longitude
40 - Letter from Peter Elmsley to Sir Joseph Banks
41 - Rough minutes of meeting of the Board of Longitude
42 - William Fuller, George Street, London, to Sir Joseph Banks
43 - Mr Brown, Temple, London, to Sir Joseph Banks
44 - Rough minutes of meeting of the Board of Longitude
45 - 'A list of learned Societies, public Libraries and private persons, both at home and abroad to whom it is proposed to send presents of the publications of the Board of Longitude'
46 - William Fuller, George Street, London, to Sir Joseph Banks
47 - Rough minutes of meeting of the Board of Longitude
48 - Letter from Sir Harry Parker, Commissioners of Longitude, Admiralty, to Sir Joseph Banks, Nevil Maskelyne and Anthony Shepherd
49 - 'A Schedule of the Astronomical and Philosophical Instruments belonging to the Commissioners of Longitude, delivered to the care of William Bayley'
50 - Rough minutes of meeting of the Board of Longitude
51 - Rough minutes of meeting of the Board of Longitude
52 - Rough minutes of meeting of the Board of Longitude
53 - 'List of the Property of the Board [of Longitude] in my Possession'
54 - Letter from Samuel Smethurst, Liverpool, to Sir Joseph Banks
55 - Draft of letter from Joseph Banks, Soho Square, to [Samuel Smethurst]
56A - Letter from Sir Harry Parker, Secretary, Board of Longitude, Admiralty Office, to Sir Joseph Banks
56B - 'List of Instruments proper for making astronomical Observations at Botany Bay'
57 - Rough minutes of meeting of the Board of Longitude
58 - Letter from Sir Harry Parker, Commissioners of Longitude, Admiralty, to Sir Joseph Banks, Nevil Maskelyne and Anthony Shepherd
59 - Extract from minutes of meeting of the Board of Longitude
60 - Copy of letter from Matthew Guthrie, 'Instruction for the Geographical and Astronomical Voyage of Joseph Billings'
61 - Rough minutes of meeting of the Board of Longitude
62 - Rough minutes of meeting of the Board of Longitude
63 - Letter from B Talbot, Cannock, to Sir Joseph Banks
64 - Letter from T Morse, Chancery Lane, to Sir Joseph Banks
65A - Draft letter from Joseph Banks to Mr Tullock
65B - Rough minutes of meeting of the Board of Longitude
66 - Rough notes by Sir Joseph Banks
67 - Letter from Sir Harry Parker, Commissioners of Longitude, Admiralty, to Sir Joseph Banks, Nevil Maskelyne and A Shepherd
68 - Letter from B Talbot, Cannock, to Sir Joseph Banks
68A - Rough minutes of meeting of the Board of Longitude
69 - Extract from minutes of meeting of the Board of Longitude
70 - Extract from minutes of meeting of the Board of Longitude
71 - Letter from Beaumont, Gloucester House, to Sir Joseph Banks
72 - Draft letter from Joseph Banks
73A - Letter from Georg Wolff, 16 America Square, to Sir Joseph Banks
73B - Letter from Christian Carl Lous, Copenhagen, to Georg Wolff, Danish Consul in London
74 - Rough minutes of meeting of the Board of Longitude
75 - 'Proposal for publishing General Tables of the Altitudes of the Sun, Moon and Stars...by George Margetts'
76 - Rough minutes of meeting of the Board of Longitude
77 - Letter from Christian Carl Lous, Copenhagen
78 - Letter from T Colley, 23 Leather Lane, London to Sir Joseph Banks
79 - Le Comte de Bruhl, 'Nouveau Journal du Chronometre'
80 - Rough minutes of meeting of the Board of Longitude
81 - Fragment of a note by Joseph Banks, 'List of Instruments the Property of the Board of Longitude"
82 - Letter from Nevil Maskelyne to Sir Joseph Banks
83 - Rough minutes of meeting of the Board of Longitude
84 - Rough minutes of meeting of the Board of Longitude
85 - Note about the 'Nautical Almanac' and the Library of the University of Goettingen
86 - Rough minutes of meeting of the Board of Longitude
87 - Letter from Sir Harry Parker, Commissioners of Longitude, Admiralty, to Sir Joseph Banks, Nevil Maskelyne and Anthony Shepherd
88 - Letter from Nevil Maskelyne to Sir Joseph Banks
89 - Letter from George Shuckburgh-Evelyn to Sir Joseph Banks
90 - Letter from George Shuckburgh-Evelyn to Sir Joseph Banks
91 - Questionnaire about Banks and the business of Mudge's chronometers
92 - 'Disbursement on Account of Works published by the Commissioners of Longitude'
93 - Draft of a letter from Joseph Banks, Soho Square
94 - 'An extract from a letter of the Rev Mr John Hellins, formerly Assistant to Mr (now Dr) Maskelyne, the Astronomer-Royal at Greenwich Observatory, to Francis Maseres, Esq'
95 - Letter from William Mason to Sir Joseph Banks
96 - Rough minutes of meeting of the Board of Longitude
97 - Letter from Sir Harry Parker, Commissioners of Longitude, Admiralty, to Sir Joseph Banks, Nevil Maskelyne and Anthony Shepherd
98 - 'Objections to Mr Mudge's Pretensions to a Reward from Parliament: By a Committee of the Board of Longitude'
99 - Letters from Christian Carl Lous, Copenhagen, to Sir Joseph Banks
100 - 'Observations on Mr Mudge's Application to Parliament for a Reward for his Time-keepers, which, agreeably to the Act of Parliament of 14th of George III had been unanimously denied him by the Board of Longitude', by Joseph Banks
101 - Fair copy of some of the proceedings of the Committee of the House of Commons to whom Mudge's petition was presented
102 - 'Remarks on Time-keepers Navigation and Compasses'
103 - Rough minutes of meeting of the Board of Longitude
104 - 'List of Instruments to be lent by the Board for making Astronomical Observations at Botany Bay'
105 - Letter from William Windham MP to Sir Joseph Banks
106 - Letter from George Shuckburgh-Evelyn to Sir Joseph Banks
107 - Draft of a letter from Sir Joseph Banks, Soho Square, to William Windham MP
108 - Letter from George Shuckburgh-Evelyn to Sir Joseph Banks
109 - Letter from J White, House of Commons, to Sir Joseph Banks
110 - Draft by Joseph Banks of 'Observations on Mr Mudge's Application to Parliament for a Reward for his Time-keepers, which, agreeably to the Act of Parliament of 14th of George III had been unanimously denied him by the Board of Longitude'
111 - Letter from George Shuckburgh-Evelyn to Sir Joseph Banks
112 - 'Proposals for printing by subscription A New System of Navigation', by Richard Anderson
113 - Letter from Anne Copard to Sir Joseph Banks
114 - Extract from the Journal of the House of Commons re Mudge's petition
115 - Extract from the Proceedings of the Board of Longitude
116 - Rough minutes of meeting of the Board of Longitude
117 - Copy of a letter from Joseph Banks, Soho Square, to William Windham MP
118 - Copy of a letter from Joseph Banks, Soho Square, to William Windham MP
119 - Letter from Thomas Mudge, Lincoln's Inn, London to Sir Joseph Banks
120 - Copy of a letter from Joseph Banks, Soho Square, to Thomas Mudge
121 - Letter from William Windham MP, Hill Street, to Sir Joseph Banks
122 - Copy of a letter from Joseph Banks, Soho Square, to William Windham MP
123 - 'Errors of Mr Mudge's two time-keepers in six months', by Nevil Maskelyne
124 - 'Calculation of the error of Mr Arnold's pocket Chronometer No. 36 in the months by the trial at the Royal Observatory in 1779 and 1780, by Nevil Maskelyne
125 - Copy of a letter from Joseph Banks, Soho Square, to William Windham MP
126 - Copy of a letter from Joseph Banks, Soho Square, to William Windham MP
127 - Letter from George Shuckburgh-Evelyn to Sir Joseph Banks
128 - Copy of a letter from Joseph Banks, Soho Square, to William Windham MP
129 - Letter from Nevil Maskelyne, Greenwich, to Richard Shepherd
130 - Letter from George Shuckburgh-Evelyn to Sir Joseph Banks
131 - Copy of a letter from Joseph Banks, Soho Square
132 - Letter from William Wilbraham to Sir Joseph Banks
133 - Letter from Nevil Maskelyne, Greenwich, to Sir Joseph Banks
134 - 'A Comparison between the Principles of the Construction of Mr Mudge's and Mr Arnold's Time-Keepers'
135 - Letter from Nevil Maskelyne, Greenwich, to Sir Joseph Banks
136 - A short note from Nevil Maskelyne, Greenwich, to Sir Joseph Banks
137 - Rough minutes of meeting of the Board of Longitude
138 - Draft of a letter from Joseph Banks to William Pitt MP
139 - Letter from Nevil Maskelyne, Greenwich, to Sir Joseph Banks
140 - Letter from Christian Carl Lous, Copenhagen, to Sir Joseph Banks
141 - Rough minutes of meeting of the Board of Longitude
142 - Letter from John Fitch to Sir Joseph Banks
143 - Rough minutes of meeting of the Board of Longitude
144 - Letter from Wellmens to Sir Joseph Banks
145 - Rough minutes of meeting of the Board of Longitude
146 - 'List of Instruments as have been purchased by the Board of Longitude taken from the Astronomer Royal's accounts'
147 - Letter from Christian Carl Lous, Copenhagen, to Sir Joseph Banks
148 - Rough minutes of meeting of the Board of Longitude
149 - Letter from Thomas Hurst, Hanford, to Sir Joseph Banks
150 - Letter from Thomas Hurst, Hanford, to Sir Joseph Banks
151 - Letter from Thomas Hurst, Cheadle, to Sir Joseph Banks
152 - Rough minutes of meeting of the Board of Longitude
153 - Rough minutes of meeting of the Board of Longitude
154 - Copy of a letter from George Vancouver, at Petersham, to William Wales
155 - Letter from Thomas Hurst, Hanford, to Sir Joseph Banks
156 - Act of Parliament, 36 GEO III Cap 107 - 'An Act for continuing the Encouragement and Reward of Persons making certain Discoveries for finding the Longitude at Sea, or making other useful Discoveries and Improvements in Navigation, and for making Experiments relating thereto'
157A - Draft of a letter from Joseph Banks
157B - 'Works published by the Commissioners of Longitude'
158 - Rough minutes of meeting of the Board of Longitude
159 - Letter from Lord Spencer, Wimbledon Park, to Sir Joseph Banks
160 - Rough minutes of meeting of the Board of Longitude
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