Records, 1873-ca. 1930.

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Records, 1873-ca. 1930.

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Records (incomplete) of the Observatory, including original architects' plans and drawings (from 1873), early account books, some papers and correspondence of Charles Pritchard, some limited records of observations and reductions of observational data, and miscellaneous notes. There is also a collection of photographs, engravings, and lantern slides (though not the Observatory's archive of observational photographs). Several non-internal documents acquired by the Observatory are also included, notably a notebook of Sir William Herschel, and the sunspot observations of the American astronomer C.H.F. Peters. Pritchard's correspondents include: John Couch Adams, Sir W.H.M. Christie, B.M. Cowie, A.M.W. Downing, A.S. Farrar, Sir William Huggins, Benjamin Jowett, Edward B. KnoĢˆbel, George Knott, Sir Donald MacAlister, J.R. Magrath, S.J. Perry, Sir Joseph Prestwich, A. Cowper Ranyard, J.E. Sewell, Charles Piazzi Smyth, C.A. Swainson, J.J. Sylvester, Charles Taylor, J.F. Tennant, G.L. Tupman.

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American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library

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Huggins, William, Sir, 1824-1910

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University of Oxford. Observatory

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The University Observatory was established in 1875 to provide teaching and research facilities for Oxford's Savilian Professor of Astronomy. The professors until 1930 were Charles Pritchard and then H.H. Turner, and the principal assistant for much of this period was F.A. Bellamy. Positional and photographic astronomy, seismology, and international collaboration were among the activities of the Observatory. From the description of Records, 1873-ca. 1930. (Unknown). WorldCat record id...