RGO
National Library of Australia
View Catalogue Record
Created: 2018
Online Items
Fonds RGO. Records of the Royal Greenwich Observatory, 1714 - 1838
Series RGO 14 (pieces 1-54). Board of Longitude, 1714 - 1838
Papers selected by the Australian Joint Copying Project (AJCP) for filming include: accounts of meetings of the Board of Longitude at which arrangements were made for sending out astronomers with Captain Cook's expeditions to South Seas; Log books of Adventure and Resolution contain astronomical observations and charts made by Wales and Bayly, whose instruments are listed in pieces 5 and 6, and astronomical observations made by Cook, in 1776 and other astronomers on voyages of exploration, 1791-1802.
Acts of Parliament, Orders in Council, rewards, etc., 1714 - 1829 (File 1. AJCP Reel No: 1727)
Papers about salaries of members, imprests and accounts, correspondence, etc., 1782 - 1829 (File 2. AJCP Reel No: 1727)
Meetings of the Board: rough minutes, agenda, attendances, memoranda, letters, etc., 1767 - 1828 (File 3. AJCP Reel No: 1727-1728)
Meetings of the Board: fair minutes, 1765 - 1828 (File 4. AJCP Reel No: 1728)
Confirmed minutes, 1737 - 1779 (File 5. AJCP Reel No: 1728)
Confirmed minutes, 1780 - 1801 (File 6. AJCP Reel No: 1728-1729)
Confirmed minutes, 1802 - 1829 (File 7. AJCP Reel No: 1729)
Confirmed minutes, 1823 - 1829 (File 8. AJCP Reel No: 1729)
Entry book of warrants, certificates and letters, 1782 - 1810 (File 9. AJCP Reel No: 1729)
Committee minutes: reports on methods; tables, instruments: measurements of ships tonnage, etc., 1809 - 1826 (File 10. AJCP Reel No: 1729-1730)
Miscellaneous petitions and memorials, 1782 - 1827 (File 11. AJCP Reel No: 1730)
Lists of instruments, books, papers, publications: loans of instruments, receipts, etc.: recipients of publications, 1782 - 1829 (File 12. AJCP Reel No: 1731)
Publications and books: printers and publishers: accounts, cheques, and counterfoils, etc., 1767 - 1829 (File 13. AJCP Reel No: 1731-1732)
Accounts: individual, 1766 - 1823 (File 14. AJCP Reel No: 1732-1733)
Royal observatory, cape of good hope: weekly notices of the chief business, 23 January 1845 - 25 September 1845 (File 14A. AJCP Reel No: 1733)
Accounts: individual, 1770 - 1823 (File 15. AJCP Reel No: 1733)
Accounts: individual, 1811 - 1828 (File 16. AJCP Reel No: 1740)
United Survey of English and French Coasts: accounts, bills, receipts, 1821 - 1822 (File 17. AJCP Reel No: 1741)
Nautical almanack: miscellaneous papers and letters, 1798 - 1829 (File 18. AJCP Reel No: 1741)
Chronometers: records of trials, papers about improvements, etc., 1779 - 1828 (File 19. AJCP Reel No: 1741-1742)
Arnold's and Earnshaw's chronometers: descriptions, trials, claims, 1783 - 1808 (File 20. AJCP Reel No: 1742)
Originality of Arnold's specifications, 1805 (File 21. AJCP Reel No: 1743)
Originality of Earnshaw's specifications, 1805 (File 22. AJCP Reel No: 1743)
Ulrich's specifications: description and diagrams, 1827 (File 23. AJCP Reel No: 1744)
Astronomical and nautical instruments, 1785 - 1828 (File 24. AJCP Reel No: 1744)
Sounding machines and ships logs, 1790 - 1828 (File 25. AJCP Reel No: 1744-1745)
Methods for longitude by lunar distances, [1805] (File 26. AJCP Reel No: 1749)
Longitude by lunar methods (other than those using lunar distances), 1779 - 1828 (File 27. AJCP Reel No: 1745)
Longitude by Jupiter's satellites, and by various solar and astronomical methods, 1783 - 1828 (File 28. AJCP Reel No: 1746)
Miscellaneous instruments and methods for longitude: management of chronometers at sea, 1783 - 1825 (File 29. AJCP Reel No: 1746-1747)
Impracticable schemes for longitude, 1782 - 1827 (File 30. AJCP Reel No: 1747A-1748)
Methods for determining latitude, 1787 - 1824 (File 31. AJCP Reel No: 1750)
Determination of longitude by magnetic declination and variation, 1782 - 1830 (File 32. AJCP Reel No: 1750-1751)
Miscellaneous inventions, 1785 - 1829 (File 33. AJCP Reel No: 1751)
Miscellaneous astronomical and nautical tables, 1784 - 1828 (File 34. AJCP Reel No: 1754)
Extended manuscript navigation tables, Uncertain (File 35. AJCP Reel No: 1752)
Observations and observatories, 1786 - 1828 (File 36. AJCP Reel No: 1752-1753)
Geodesy, pendulum experiments; Tiark's longitude measurements, 1818 - 1830 (File 37. AJCP Reel No: 1753)
Sabine's longitudes of pendulum stations, 1822 - 1823 (File 38. AJCP Reel No: 1753)
Tides, trade winds, and other nautical and hydrographical matters, 1782 - 1825 (File 39. AJCP Reel No: 1753-1754)
Miscellaneous astronomical, mathematical, nautical and scientific papers, 1769 - 1828 (File 40. AJCP Reel No: 1755)
Irrational astronomical theories, 1785 - 1819 (File 41. AJCP Reel No: 1754-1755)
Perpetual motion claims: quadrature of the circle, etc., 1787 - 1825 (File 42. AJCP Reel No: 1755)
Miscellaneous correspondence, 1783 - 1838 (File 43. AJCP Reel No: 1755-1756)
Log book of the Adventure, 1772 - 1774 (File 44. AJCP Reel No: 1756)
Observations made on board the Adventure, 1772 - 1774 (File 45. AJCP Reel No: 1756)
Log book of the Resolution, 1772 - 1775 (File 46. AJCP Reel No: 1747B)
Observations made on board the Resolution, 1772 - 1775 (File 47. AJCP Reel No: 1756)
Captain Cook's journal of the voyage of 1776: observations of variations in compass and chronometer rates, etc., 1776 (File 47. AJCP Reel No: 1756)
Cook's last voyage: astronomical observations, 1778 - 1780 (File 48. AJCP Reel No: 1756)
Voyage of the Daedalus: Gooch's journal and observations, 1791 - 1792 (File 49. AJCP Reel No: 1757)
Log books of the Investigator, 1801 - 1803 (File 50. AJCP Reel No: 1757-1758)
Observations, 1801 - 1805 (File 50. AJCP Reel No: 1757-1758)
Commander Flinders' memoir on the charts of Australia, 1805 (File 50. AJCP Reel No: 1757-1758)
Voyages of the Investigator: Reduction of astronomical and other observations, 1801 - 1805 (File 51. AJCP Reel No: 1758)
Voyages of the Investigator: observations and calculations, 1801 - 1803 (File 52. AJCP Reel No: 1758)
Voyages of various ships 1763, 1772, 1776–77, 1794–1805: observations and calculations, 1763 - 1794 (File 53. AJCP Reel No: 1758-1759)
Voyages of discovery: various relevant papers, observations, etc., 1787 - 1824 (File 54. AJCP Reel No: 1759)
