Letter book

• Reference:GB 586 ROE/34.256
• Alternative Id:
  GB 586 34.256
• Dates of Creation:1894-1898

• Scope and Content

  Letter book, including:

  1. ROE annual reports to RAS: reports of 1894 reports completion of buildings, last 70 tonnes of equipment & books removed from Dun Echt copper domes washed with saline to hasten uniform colouring

  2. accounts of removal expenses Dun Echt to Edinburgh sent to Treasury

  3. request for engraved motto on chimney piece in 1895

  4. description of new observatory

  5. list of fittings & furniture required: ‘directors’ room for receiving distinguished visitors ought to be very well furnished’

  6. Dun Echt rainfall for 1894

  7. Annual meteorological reports

  8. Rules for visitors

  Also including letters of T Heath & AJ Ramsey; indexed