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Add. MS a/200/169
Titre
Letter from George Airy
Date(s)
- 3 May 1861 (Production)
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Étendue matérielle et support
3 pp.
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Histoire archivistique
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Royal Observatory Greenwich - Further to the Sheepshanks Exhibition John C. Adams and [Edleston?] 'will be excellent cooperators. But if they will examine without me I shall be well satisfied'. GA has received letters from Carrington [Richard C. Carrington]: 'I cannot conceive how a man could be so stupendously foolish. The notion of taking a position by storm in that manner [Director of Cambridge Observatory]. But in every way you are well to be rid of him...in a short time you would have been compelled to turn him out by force, and to stand a lawsuit and criminal prosecution'.