Letter, from George Biddell Airy to Sir John Herschel, dated at Observatory, Cambridge
Reference number: HS/1/66
Date: 19 October 1834
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Autograph letter signed by sender. Abstracts of barometrical pressure in various parts of the earth. Has used James South's equatorial with Richard Sheepshanks's clockwork attached. Constitution of Paris Observatory being changed. D. F. J. Arago's experiments on glass and metal. Humphrey Lloyd's experiments on reflected light. Edinburgh's Observatory site likely to be changed. John Pond (Astronomer Royal) has been asked to resign. Thomas Maclear's Cape circle. Reasons for the delay in delivery of R. A. Cauchoix's telescope to Cambridge. House of Lords and Commons burnt down.
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George Biddell Airy, Letter, from George Biddell Airy to Sir John Herschel, dated at Observatory, Cambridge, 19 October 1834, HS/1/66, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/hs_1_66/letter-from-george-biddell-airy-to-sir-john-herschel-dated-at-observatory-cambridge, accessed on 10 February 2026
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