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" Two reports have recently been issued on rates of deck watches and of box and pocket chronometers on trial for purchase by the Board of Admiralty at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, in the latter half of last year. "
Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences - Page 496
by American Academy of Arts and Sciences - 1868
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The Nautical Magazine: A Journal of Papers on Subjects Connected ..., Volume 52

Naval art and science - 1883 - 1048 pages
...Staff-Commander HR Harris, BN The Astronomer Royal has issued the usual pamphlet giving particulars of the Rates of Chronometers on Trial for Purchase by the...of Admiralty at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, in 1883. Van Nostrand's Engineering Magazine (New York), for October, contains a valuable collection...
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The Journal of the Royal Geographic Society of London, Volume 39

Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain) - Electronic journals - 1869 - 594 pages
..... .. .. By PURCHASE. Admiralty. — A Memoir of the Hydrographic Department. ISSS. CAPT. RICHARDS. Rates of Chronometers on Trial for purchase by the Board of Admiralty. 1868 , The ADMIRALTY. AFRICA. — Dualla Language, Gospel of S. Matthew. Lesson Book 2. Cameroons River,...
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Household Words: A Weekly Journal, Volume 1

1850 - 1254 pages
...that its variation under opposite circumstances becomes a matter of close and certain estimate. The rates of chronometers on trial for purchase by the Board of Admiralty, at the Observatory, are posted up and printed iu au official form. Upon looking to the doĞument for last...
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History of England: From the Peace of Utrecht to the Peace of ..., Volume 1

Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - Great Britain - 1858 - 468 pages
...to 1860. 5>. • 1871 to 1873. 3s. 1874 to 1876. 5s. each. ADMIRALTY PUBLICATIONS — continued. • Chronometers on Trial for Purchase by the Board of Admiralty at the Royal Obaervitrry, Greenwich, 18S2 to 1881. 4to. Stitched. Is each. Clock Star Lis', 1883 to 1855. 4f>. Broadside,...
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Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, Volume 3

Science - 1862 - 914 pages
...— Continued. the year, in leap year, the first, second, and third years after. London, fol. pp. 85. Rates of Chronometers on trial for purchase by the...of Admiralty, at the Royal Observatory. Greenwich, 1849. 4to. KILKENNY. Kilkenny and South-East of Ireland Archaeological Society. Transactions of tlie...
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Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, Volume 3

Science - 1862 - 784 pages
...Observatory.—Continued. the year, in leap year, the first, second, and third years after. London, fol. pp. 85. Rates of Chronometers on trial for purchase by the...of Admiralty, at the Royal Observatory. Greenwich, 1849. 4to. KILKENNY. Kilkenny and South-East of Ireland Archaeological Society. Transactions of the...
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Catalogue of the Library of the Institution of Civil Engineers

Institution of Civil Engineers (Great Britain) Library - Engineering - 1866 - 414 pages
...joinery, and cabinet-making; being a With which is bound— • ANONYMOUS. CHRONOMETERS. Rates of, on trial for purchase by the Board of .Admiralty, at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, 1840-60. With account of improvements in chronometers made by Mr. John Sweetman Eifl'e ; with an appendix,...
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Curiosities of Clocks and Watches: From the Earliest Times

Edward J. Wood - Clocks and watches - 1866 - 464 pages
...that its variation under opposite circumstances becomes a matter of close and certain estimate. "The rates of chronometers on trial for purchase by the Board of Admiralty, at the Observatory, are posted up and printed in an official form. Upon looking to the document for last year...
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Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, Volume 9

Science - 1869 - 932 pages
...MOLYNEUX'S Specification of a Patent for Improvements in Chronometers. London, 1842. 4to. pp. 25. Kates of Chronometers on trial for purchase by the Board...of Admiralty, at the Royal Observatory. Greenwich, 1849. 4to. HARTWELL. Hart-well Observatory. The Cycle of Celestial Objects continued at the Hartwell...
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Nature, Volume 74

Sir Norman Lockyer - Electronic journals - 1906 - 1086 pages
...of the river. Two reports have recently been issued on rates of deck watches and of box and pocket chronometers on trial for purchase by the Board of Admiralty at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, in the latter half of last year. The number of deck watches on trial from August 5 to November 25,...
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