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give the most complete information,<lb/>both on the Kew Photographs,<lb/>
and on Mr. Carrington’s drawings<lb/>which preceded them.<lb/>You will probably be able now<lb/>to decide on the course which you<lb/>will adopt. Mr. De La Rue<lb/>and I will give every assistance<lb/>in our power.<lb/><head>I am, my dear Sir,</head>
Yours very truly<lb/>GBAiry
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<head>Royal Observatory, Greenwich</head>London S.E.<lb/>1866 August 9<lb/><head>My dear Sir</head>I was much gratified by your<lb/>
letter of August 1, partly because<lb/>it gave me an opportunity of showing<lb/>how highly I value the numerous<lb/>communications which I have received<lb/>from you.<lb/>I delivered your Spectrum of Arcturus<lb/>
to my First Assistant Mr. Stone, who<lb/>
is Secretary of the R. Astronomical Society.<lb/>
A <unclear></unclear> of the Monthly Notices is usually<lb/>published in the decline of summer,<lb/>when, I doubt not, your paper<lb/>and diagram will appear.<lb/>And I made inquiry of Mr. De<lb/>La Rue about the Kew Photographs of<lb/>
the Sun. I enclose a full copy<lb/>
of his answer, which appears to
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<head>1864, November 23</head>
I have the honor to inform you that a copy <add>each </add>of the<lb/>
Greenwich Observations 1862, Greenwich<lb/>7 Year Catalogue, Longitude of Valencia<lb/>& Plan of Grounds & Buildings of R.O.<lb/>presented to the Roman College Observatory<lb/>and the Astronomical & Mag<hi rend="superscript">al</hi> & Mete<hi rend="superscript">al</hi>Results
presented to yourself<lb/>
by the authority of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, have been<lb/>
forwarded <del>by</del> to Messr. McCracken <del>to</del><add>with instructions</add><del>address</del><lb/>
to place them in Mr. <unclear>Cholemeley’s</unclear> box.<lb/>I request the favor of an acknowledgement of receipt.<lb/><head>I have the honor to be,</head>
Sir,<lb/>Your very obedient Servant,<lb/>GBAiry
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<head>1864, November 23</head>
I have the honor to inform you that a copy <add>each </add>of the<lb/>
Greenwich Observations 1862, Greenwich<lb/>7 Year Catalogue, Longitude of Valencia<lb/>& Plan of Grounds & Buildings of R.O.<lb/>presented to the Roman College Observatory<lb/>and the Astronomical & Mag<hi rend="superscript">al</hi> & Mete<hi rend="superscript">al</hi>Results
presented to yourself<lb/>
by the authority of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, have been<lb/>
forwarded <del>by</del> to Messr. McCracken <del>to</del><add>with instructions</add><del>address</del><lb/>
to place them in Mr. <unclear>Cholemeley’s</unclear> box.<lb/>I request the favor of an acknowledgement of receipt.<lb/><head>I have the honor to be,</head>
Sir,<lb/>Your very obedient Servant,<lb/>GBAiry
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communications through our<lb/>metropolis.<lb/>My son, who accompanied<lb/>me in Rome when I had the<lb/>pleasure of seeing you some years<lb/>ago, has been conducting an<lb/>engineering work under Mr.<lb/>Fowler’s superintendance.<lb/>I have taken the liberty of<lb/>giving to Mr. Fowler a note<lb/>
of introduction to you. If you<lb/>are able to offer him and Mrs.<lb/>Fowler any attention, I shall be<lb/> greatly obliged to you.<lb/>
<head>I am, my dear Sir,</head>
Yours very truly<lb/>
GBAiry
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which you are able to show him.<lb/>I know that your thoughts often<lb/>
take the direction of engineering,<lb/>and I am confident that you<lb/>
will find pleasure in the society<lb/>of one of our most distinguished<lb/>engineers. Mr. Fowler is<lb/>
accompanied by his very amiable<lb/>wife.<lb/>Among Mr. Fowler’s works<lb/>(principally railways) one which<lb/>has attracted much attention is<lb/>the subterranean railway through<lb/>London, which has completely<lb/>altered the state of railway
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<head>Royal Observatory, Greenwich,</head>
1866 Novr. 23<lb/>
My dear Sir<lb/>
My excellent friend <lb/>Mr. John Fowler, one of our<lb/>most distinguished Engineers,<lb/>is about to visit Rome, and<lb/> will pass some weeks there.<lb/>I should be greatly obliged<lb/>if you would permit me to<lb/>introduce him to you, and<lb/>to beg the favour of any attention
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<head>1861, December 14</head>
<head>SIR,</head>
I have the honor to inform you that <del>cop of </del>a Box<lb/>
Containing Volumes of Greenwich Observations +c.<lb/>supplied as far as possible in accordance with your<lb/>reply to the Astronomer Royal’s Circular letter<lb/>of 1860 October 20<lb/>presented to the Observatory of the Roman College,<lb/>by authority of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, has been<lb/>forwarded <del>by</del> to Mes <unclear></unclear>McCracken <del>to address </del>for transmission to Mr: <unclear>Cmeley</unclear><lb/>Rome<lb/>I request the favor of an acknowledgment of receipt.<lb/><head>I have the honor to be,</head>Sir,<lb/>Your very obedient Servant,<lb/>G B Airy
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<head>1858 Sept. 20</head>
My dear Sir<lb/>Secchi writes to me<lb/>that he is coming here<lb/>tomorrow. But I am<lb/>going to Leeds tomorrow.<lb/>Can you convey intimations of<lb/>that to him? For I do<lb/>not know where to write.<lb/>He had better go to<lb/>
Leeds. I am to return on<lb/>Saturday. I am, my dear Sir,<lb/>Yours very truly<lb/>G B Airy
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Al Reverendo Padre Secchi<lb/>Collegio Romano<lb/>Roma<lb/>G B Airy
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<head>Royal Observatory, Greenwich</head>
1866 November 20<lb/><head>My dear Sir</head>Permit me to introduce<lb/>to yo <gap/> Mr. John Fowler, the<lb/>bearer of this letter, one of our<lb/>most distinguished Engineers,
of whom I lately wrote to you.<lb/>If you are able to give him any<lb/>assistance during his stay in<lb/>Rome, I shall be greatly<lb/>obliged to you.<head>I am, my dear Sir,</head>Yours very truly<lb/>G B Airy
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<head>Royal Observatory, Greenwich</head>London SE<lb/>1862 September 17<lb/><head>Dear Sir</head>I enclose herewith<lb/>the photographs of magnetic<lb/>declination and horizontal<lb/>force for July 5, 6, 7.<lb/><head>I am, dear Sir,</head>Yours faithfully<lb/>G B Airy<lb/>Al Rev.<hi rend="superscript"></hi>do Padre Secchi<lb/>The zeros of the curves have been<lb/>prepared only within the last two days.
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<hi rend="underline">introducing Professor Selwyn</hi><lb/>Al Rev.<hi rend="superscript">do</hi><lb/>Padre Secchi<lb/>Collegio Romano<lb/>Roma
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He is very anxious to be<lb/>permitted to pay his respects<lb/>to you personally, and also<lb/>to see your Observatory<lb/><head>I am, my dear Sir,</head>Yours very truly<lb/>G B Airy<noinclude><references/></noinclude>

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<head>1860 November 28</head>My dear Sir<lb/>Will you permit me<lb/>to introduce to you my friend<lb/><hi rend="underline">Professor Selwyn</hi>, the bearer<lb/>of this letter, who is Professor<lb/>of Theology in the University<lb/>of Cambridge, but who takes<lb/>sufficient interest in Astronomy<lb/>to make journeys for the purpose<lb/>of observing eclipses, and who<lb/>also makes photographs of the Sun.
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<unclear></unclear>Via Belgium<lb/>LONDON - S.E.<lb/>8N<unclear></unclear> N029<lb/>M Rev<hi rend="superscript">do</hi><lb/><del></del>Padre Secchi <add>per AACHEN</add><lb/>Collegio Romano<lb/><unclear></unclear>Roma<lb/><unclear></unclear>59
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vediamo come si scrive in questa<lb/>carta, sì vi si scrive bene
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<head></head>Royal Observatory Greenwich<lb/>1856 December 15<lb/>
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<head>My dear Sir</head>
Allow me to introduce to you Dr. Whewell<lb/>(Master of Trinity College,<lb/> Cambridge) who makes a <lb/>short visit to Rome.<lb/>
Dr. Whewell is connected <lb/> officially with the Observatories<lb/> of Greenwich and Cambridge,<lb/> and will see with interest<lb/> any thing relating to Astronomy.
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But Dr. Whewell will also<lb/> regard with interest every thing<lb/> relating to science, to<lb/> literature, to art, and to<lb/> education, and I should<lb/> be glad to be permitted to ask<lb/> your kind assistance to him on <lb/>all these subjects.<head>I am, my dear Sir, Very truly yours</head><lb/>G B Airy
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∏r<hi rend="superscript">2</hi>=300<lb/>
170<lb/> 70<lb/>___<lb/>1190<lb/>
300<lb/>134<lb/>___<lb/>4020,0<lb/>
60<gap/><lb/>3600<lb/>3.14<lb/>_____<lb/>14 400<lb/>
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45216<lb/>1304<lb/>____<lb/>28ǀ158,256ǀ6<lb/><unclear></unclear>144<lb/> ___<lb/>14<lb/><unclear></unclear>100
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enter deeply into technical<lb/>astronomy. I cannot therefore<lb/>present them to you with the<lb/>same claims on your attention<lb/>which I thought myself able to<lb/>urge in favour of Dr. Whewell.<lb/>But I do not doubt that your<lb/>influence in Rome will be<lb/>
able to procure for them many<lb/>advantages which without such<lb/>assistance they would be unable<lb/>to obtain.<lb/><head>I am, my dear Sir,</head>Yours very truly<lb/>GB Airy
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acquainted with him, but I find<lb/>that he is much esteemed by all<lb/>his friends. But I am very<lb/>anxious to ask your kind<lb/>
attentions in favour of his bride.<lb/>She is the daughter of Sir John<lb/>Herschel, and is an attractive<lb/>and highly educated and amiable<lb/>lady, and has often been in my<lb/>family. She was the chosen<lb/>friend of my oldest daughter<lb/>whom I lost a few years ago.<lb/>Mr. Marshall, as I believe,<lb/>has no astronomical taste whatever:<lb/>and Mrs. Marshall naturally cannot
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<head>Royal Observatory Greenwich</head>
1858 January 19<lb/>My dear Sir<lb/>I have taken the<lb/>liberty of giving to Mr.<lb/>
Reginald Marshall a note<lb/>of introduction to you, and I<lb/>write now to give you some<lb/>
explanations which I could not<lb/>
insert in a <gap/>simple letter<lb/>
of introduction. Mr. Marshall<lb/>
is nephew of the late Mr.<lb/>Whewell. I am not personally
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introducing W. R. Marshall<lb/>M. Rev.<hi rend="superscript"></hi>do Padre Secchi<lb/>Collegio Romano<lb/>Roma<lb/>G B Airy
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<head>Royal Observatory, Greenwich</head>
1858 January 18<lb/>My dear Sir<lb/>Permit me to introduce<lb/>to you the bearer of this note<lb/>W. Reginald Marshall,<lb/>of whom I lately wrote to you<lb/>by post, and who, with<lb/>his bride (daughter of<lb/>Sir John Herschel) proposes<lb/>to pass a few weeks at Rome.<lb/><head>I am, my dear Sir,</head>Yours very truly<lb/>GBAiry
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3<hi rend="superscript">h</hi>.30<hi rend="superscript">m</hi>, but we can alter<lb/>
the hour to any time that is<lb/>
more convenient to you.<lb/>
Will you inform me when you will come?
I am, my dear Sir,<lb/>
Yours very truly<lb/>GB Airy
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1858 September 7<lb/>
<lb/>
<head>My dear Sir</head>
<lb/>
I returned from my<lb/>
journey, on Sunday; and W<hi rend="superscript">m</hi><lb/> Airy returned yesterday; and<lb/>
my family, though yet incomplete,<lb/>
begins to have more of its ordinary<lb/>
appearance.<lb/>
I am hoping to see you<lb/>
again at the Observatory; and<lb/>
I hope that when you come<lb/>
you will dine with us. Our<lb/>
usual hour for dinner is<lb/>
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<head></head>Royal Observatory, Greenwich<lb/><lb/>1856 September 10<lb/>
My dear Sir<lb/>
Re the other leaf, I place a<lb/>
copy of the paper which was inserted in the Box<lb/>
containing the copies of the British Standards.<lb/>
I believe that you received my letter of April 12,<lb/>
containing some farther particulars relating to the<lb/>
Standard of Weight.<lb/>
In the meteorological papers, the term “Umidità”<lb/>
is used as a quantity expressible by a number,<lb/>
but it is not explained. Does it mean “the<lb/>
proportion of vapour actually in the air to the vapour<lb/>
required for complete saturation”?<lb/>
I believe that <gap/> the booksellers at Rome<lb/>
frequently have store of old books. Could you<lb/>
conveniently make inquiry for “Vita di Ansaldo<lb/>
Grimaldi, Napoli, 1769”? I am anxious to procure<lb/>
it if possible. I cannot give the name of the author.<lb/>

I am, my dear Sir, Yours very faithfully<lb/>
GB Airy
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<head></head>Royal Observatory, Greenwich<lb/><lb/>1856 September 10<lb/>
My dear Sir<lb/>
Re the other leaf, I place a<lb/>
copy of the paper which was inserted in the Box<lb/>
containing the copies of the British Standards.<lb/>
I believe that you received my letter of April 12,<lb/>
containing some farther particulars relating to the<lb/>
Standard of Weight.<lb/>
In the meteorological papers, the term “Umidità”<lb/>
is used as a quantity expressible by a number,<lb/>
but it is not explained. Does it mean “the<lb/>
proportion of vapour actually in the air to the vapour<lb/>
required for complete saturation”?<lb/>
I believe that <gap/> the booksellers at Rome<lb/>
frequently have store of old books. Could you<lb/>
conveniently make inquiry for “Vita di Ansaldo<lb/>
Grimaldi, Napoli, 1769”? I am anxious to procure<lb/>
it if possible. I cannot give the name of the author.<lb/>

I am, my dear Sir, Yours very faithfully,<lb/>
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remarks lately made in<lb/>the Comptes Rendus,<lb/>that the basins of the<lb/>large craters are very<lb/>much depressed below the<lb/>general surface of the Moon?<head>I am, my dear Sir,</head>Yours very truly<lb/>GB Airy
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on October 20. I do not<lb/>doubt that it is lying in<lb/>W.L. Molini's hands.<lb/>Will you take the trouble<lb/>of writing to W.L. Molini<lb/>to beg that it may be<lb/>sent to you speedily?<lb/>I am glad to hear from<lb/>W. Pentland that you have<lb/>been so advantageously employed<lb/>on the physical appearance<lb/>of the Moon. Do your<lb/>observations confirm the
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1858 February 5<lb/>My dear Sir<lb/>I have just heard from W. Pentland that the copy of Hansen's <hi rend="underline">Tables dela Lune</hi> has not reached you. I find on inquiry that it was shipped by W.C.F. Molini of London to W. Luigi Molini of Firenze<pb/><noinclude><references/></noinclude>

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But Dr. Whewell will also<lb/> regard with interest every thing<lb/> relating to science, to<lb/> literature, to art, and to<lb/> education, and I should<lb/> be glad to be permitted to ask<lb/> your kind assistance to him on <lb/>all these subjects.<head>I am, my dear Sir, Very truly yours</head><lb/>G B Airy
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determinations are usually obtained before meridional instruments can be used, I venture to<lb/>request that, as soon as you have secured one or two certain observations of a planet, you will<lb/>have the kindness to communicate to me a comparison of the observed places with the corres-<lb/>ponding places in any published ephemeris. This would probably enable me to observe the<lb/>planet on the meridian through its entire Meridional Apparition.<lb/>
By following this system, I think that<lb/>the labours of the two classes of observers<lb/>(the extrameridional and the meridional)<lb/>may be lightened, and the observation<lb/>of the <add>small</add>planets may be assured.<lb/>I am, my dear Sir,<lb/>Yours very faithfully<lb/>GB Airy<noinclude><references/></noinclude>

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<head></head>Royal Observatory, Greenwich<lb/>1859 November 29<lb/>My dear Sir<lb/>You will perceive, from the statement<lb/>below, the nature of the difficulties which I have<lb/>felt in observing the small planets, and the<lb/>way in which I am endeavoring to escape from them,<lb/>by the assistance of observers who use large Equatorials.<lb/>Can you assist me in this?<lb/>
The construction of the Meridional Instrument, and the general arrangements in<lb/>this Observatory, offer great advantages for the meridional observations of the small Planets;<lb/>and it has been my wish to maintain these observations with the utmost practicable regularity.<lb/>This, however, can be done only with the aid of a very approximate ephemeris.<lb/>
In general, ephemerides of the small planets are not wanting; but their errors are<lb/>frequently so large as to make it nearly impossible for observers to assure themselves that the<lb/>object which they see in the meridional telescope is the planet which they are seeking. A<lb/>great amount of labour is thus wasted. And finally, I have been compelled to lay down as a<lb/>general rule, that small planets are not to be sought on the meridian, unless we have a pretty<lb/>accurate knowledge of the error of the ephemeris.<lb/>
It is much to be wished that information on the magnitude of the error could be<lb/>furnished to me before the meridional observations commence. As good extrameridional
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But Dr. Whewell will also<lb/> regard with interest every thing<lb/> relating to science, to<lb/> literature, to art, and to<lb/> education, and I should<lb/> be glad to be permitted to ask<lb/> your kind assistance to him on <lb/>all these subjects.<head>I am, Sir, Very truly yours</head><lb/>G B Airy
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<head></head>Royal Observatory Greenwich<lb/>1856 December 15<lb/>
<head>My dear Sir</head>
Allow me to introduce to you Dr. Whewell<lb/>(Master of Trinity College,<lb/> Cambridge) who makes a <lb/>short visit to Rome.<lb/>
Dr. Whewell is connected <lb/> officially with the Observatories<lb/> of Greenwich and Cambridge,<lb/> and will see with interest<lb/> any thing relating to Astronomy.
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<head></head>Royal Observatory, Greenwich<lb/><lb/>1856 September 10<lb/>
My dear Sir<lb/>
Re the other leaf, I place a<lb/>
copy of the paper which was inserted in the Box<lb/>
containing the copies of the British Standards.<lb/>
I believe that you received my letter of April 12,<lb/>
containing some farther particulars relating to the<lb/>
Standard of Weight.<lb/>
In the meteorological papers, the term “Umidità”<lb/>
is used as a quantity expressible by a number,<lb/>
but it is not explained. Does it mean “the<lb/>
proportion of vapour actually in the air to the vapour<lb/>
required for complete saturation”?<lb/>
I believe that <gap/> the booksellers at Rome<lb/>
frequently have store of old books. Could you<lb/>
conveniently make inquiry for “Vita di Ansaldo<lb/>
Grimaldi, Napoli, 1769”? I am anxious to procure<lb/>
it if possible. I cannot give the name of the author.<lb/>

I am, my dear Sir, Yours very faithfully,<lb/>
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<head></head>Royal Observatory, Greenwich<lb/><lb/>1856 September 10<lb/>
My dear Sir<lb/>
Re the other leaf, I place a<lb/>
copy of the paper which was inserted in the Box<lb/>
containing the copies of the British Standards.<lb/>
I believe that you received my letter of April 12,<lb/>
containing some farther particulars relating to the<lb/>
Standard of Weight.<lb/>
In the meteorological papers, the term “Umidità”<lb/>
is used as a quantity expressible by a number,<lb/>
but it is not explained. Does it mean “the<lb/>
proportion of vapour actually in the air to the vapour<lb/>
required for complete saturation”?<lb/>
I believe that <gap/> the booksellers at Rome<lb/>
frequently have store of old books. Could you<lb/>
conveniently make inquiry for “Vita di Ansaldo<lb/>
Grimaldi, Napoli, 1769”? I am anxious to procure<lb/>
it if possible. I cannot give the name of the author.<lb/>

I am, my dear Sir, Yours very faithfully,<lb/>
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<add>37</add><head>Royal Observatory, Greenwich,</head><lb/>London, S.E.<lb/>1858 September 7<head>My dear Sir</head>
I returned from my<lb/>journey, on Sunday; and W<hi rend="superscript">m</hi><lb/>Airy returned yesterday; and<lb/>my family, though yet incomplete,<lb/>begins to have more of its ordinary<lb/>appearance. I am hoping to see you<lb/>again at the Observatory; and<lb/>I hope that when you come<lb/>you will dine with us. Our<lb/>usual hour for dinner is<lb/><add>Rev. P. A.Secchi</add><add>77</add>
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