Identity area
Reference code
Add. MS a/200/171
Title
Letter from George Airy
Date(s)
- 17 Dec. 1861 (Creation)
Level of description
Item
Extent and medium
2 pp.
Context area
Name of creator
Repository
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Royal Observatory Greenwich - The 'grant of £50 to Challis [James Challis] for his computations is evidently right - I wish it had been twice as much'. Presumably 'the "Managing Body" or Observatory Syndicate made the application: that intermediary form is indispensable'.