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Institutions involved with tidal
correspondence in the nineteenth century.
American Association for the Advancement of Science Board of Longitude Bristol Society of Merchant Venturers Bristol Standard British Association for the Advancement of Science Cambridge Scientific Instrument Company: Horace Darwin's
company.
Cambridge University Press: is the oldest printing and publishing house in the
world, granted a charter by Henry VIII in 1534 it published its first book in
1584 as well as the first printed bible to be taken into the New World. 1f The Cambrian: a Welsh
Newspaper. Falmouth Packet: a newspaper. Government of India Hydrographic Office. Instituted in 1795 at the Admiralty in Charing Cross. In 1817 it moved to the top floor of the new building on Whitehall. The building is now called the Old Admiralty Building. An Edwardian addition extends into Horse Guards Parade. For the second World War it was moved to its present site in Taunton. Admiralty Hydrographers 1808-1823 1823-1829 1855-1863 John Washington 1863-1874 George Richards 1874-1884 Frederick Evans 1884-1904 William Wharton 1904-1909 Arthur Mostyn Field 1909-1914 Herbert Edward Purey-Cust 1914-1919 John F Parry 1919-1924 Frederick Charles Learmonth 1924-1931 Henry Percy Douglas 1932-1945 John Augustine Edgell 1945-1950 Guy Wyatt 1950-1955 Archibald Day 1955-1960 Kenneth St Barbe Collins 1960-1965 Edmund Irving 1966-1971 George Steven Ritchie 1971-1975 Geoffrey Penrose Dickinson Hall 1975-1985 David William Haslam 1985-1990 Roger Oliver Morris 1990-1994 John Anthony Lovell Myres Liverpool Lyceum library: the home of the Liverpool Literary and Philosophical Society. This library held the long tidal records, made by William Hutchinson and used by the Holdens with which to make their predictions for Liverpool. Joseph Brooks Yates was its president twice. At the time of the manuscript being loaned to Joseph Foss Dessiou, Thomas F. Bennett was the president. Nautical Almanac Office: http://www.nao.rl.ac.uk/ New York Daily Mail: a newspaper. Royal Society: or The Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge received its formal foundation about 1660 after earlier, informal beginnings. Henry Oldenburg, the first secretary, beginning with correspondence published the Philosophical Transactions from 1665. PT were divided into parts A & B from 1887. Beginning as Abstracts, the Proceedings of the Royal Society were published from 1832. From the time of its foundation onwards, it was appealed to by government for scientific advice; including tidal observations from 1832 and in 1884 the International Conference on the Prime Meridian. One of the most important duties which the Royal Society performs on behalf of the government, is the administration of an annual grant for the promotion of scientific research and the assistance of scientific publications. It periodically awards valuable medals and special lectures, endowed by the benefactors, are delivered to the society. In 1824-7 Sir John Frederick William Herschel was Secretary. In 1826-7, and again from 1830 to 1837, John George Children [q.v.] was one of the secretaries. Davies Gilbert was President 1827-1830. Samuel Hunter Christie [q.v.] was of secretary from 1837 to 1854. George Biddell Airy [q.v.] was president 1872-73. Sir George Gabriel Stokes [q.v.], Secretary 1854-1885, President 1885-1890. Sir William Thomson [q.v.] was president from 1890 to 1894. 6letters to. Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge The Society was founded in 1826, largely at the instigation of Lord Brougham. The object of the new Society was 'the imparting useful information to all classes of the community, particularly to such as are unable to avail themselves of experienced teachers, or may prefer learning by themselves' (SDUK Prospectus, 1829). It sought to achieve this object by acting as the intermediary between authors and publishers in several different and often ambitious series of publications. The Society fixed the form and selling price of treatises, frequency of publication and payments to authors; the publisher made arrangement with the printer and organised the distribution and sale of publications. In charge of the Society's affairs was a General Committee of not less than 40 and not more than 60 members. Prominent on the Committee besides Lord Brougham were James Mill, Lord John Russell, Lord Althorp, Zachary Macaulay, Joseph Hume, Robert Aglionby Slaney and Augustus De Morgan. Sub-committees were appointed and their function handed over to a reconstituted Publication Committee, though even after this date, ad hoc sub-committees persisted. The Society was responsible for many series of publications including: Library of Useful Knowledge; British Almanac; Library of Entertaining Knowledge; Farmer's series; Maps; Working Man's Companion; Quarterly Journal of Education; Penny Magazine; Penny Cyclopedia; Gallery of Portraits; Library for the Young; Biographical Dictionary. In 1829 there were 515 annual subscribers to the Society but that number fell to 49 by 1842. Together with the fall in the number of subscribers went a general fall in the sale of publications. Perhaps the main reason for the fall in popularity of the publications was the fact that too many and too diverse sets of treatises ran concurrently, with an extremely cumbersome review procedure for each treatise. This led to the erratic appearance of treatises, with consequent delays in the completion of readers' sets. The publications were also felt to be of a miscellaneous and non-controversial nature and therefore aroused little interest. The Society's active life lasted until 1846 and its affairs were wound up in 1848. A very useful study on the Society is Monica C Grobel, 'The Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge 1826-1846 and its relation to adult education in the first half of the XIXth Century' (unpublished London University PhD thesis, 1932). SDUK committee 1837 Chairman: Lord Brougham Vice-Chairman: John Wood Treasurer: William Tooke Secretary:
Thomas Coates, 59 W. Allen J. T. Leader Captain F. Beaufort
George C. G. Burrow Thomas Loch Peter William Coulson J. W. Lubbock R. D. Craig
H. J. F. Davis A. T. Malkin H. T. DeLaBeche James Manning Lord Denman J. Herman Merivale Samuel Duckworth Lord Nugent Bishop of Viscount Ebrington Sir H. Parnell Sir Henry Ellis Dr. Roget T. F. Ellis Edward Romilly John Elliotson Lord John Russell Thomas Falconer Sir M. A. Shee B. Gompertz Earl Spencer G. B. Greenough John Taylor M. D. Hill Dr. A. T. Thomson Rowland Hill H. Waymouth Sir J. C. Hobhouse J. Wishaw David Jardine John Wrottesley Henry B. Kerr J. A. Yates Th. Hewitt Key
Superintendent Tidal Branch 1914-1938 Harold Dreyer Warburg 1938-1945 William Ian Farquharson 1956-1967 David Leslie Gordon 1967-1987 Nisbet Cunningham Glen 1987- Geoffrey Lewis Hope (in retirement) John Page Reviser of Tidal Literature 1977- Anthony Gordon Merriman
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