Transit circle: bundle of papers

• Reference:GB 586 ROE/55.472
• Alternative Id:
  GB 586 55.472
• Dates of Creation:1910-1933

• Scope and Content

  Bundle of papers Observations, notes, few printed papers, including: 1. ‘On the determination of time at different observatories’, R Sampson, MNRAS, Jan. 1922 (offprint); 2. transit circle microscope plans. Ross, London; 3. ‘Lateral effect of atmospheric reflection’; 4. Repsold micrometer; 5. Comité de la Carte photographique: ‘Fundamental star positions’, 1910-11; 6. Bamberg transit, including observing list, 1933; 7. ‘The temperature coefficient of the Edinburgh transit circle’, R Sampson & E Baker, MNRAS, Dec 1914 (offprint); 8. ‘On the periodic errors of the right ascensions of the standard catalogues’ SS Hough, MNRAS, Jan 1913 (offprint); 9. ‘Sur l’amelioration des observations méridiennes’, E Esclangon (offprint); 10. experimental clock, mss & correspondence, 1913; 11. division errors, J Halm, 1913