422733
- TitleDavid Miller notebook kept on the Transit of Venus Expedition to Lord Howe Island, November 1882
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- Call numberMLMSS 3391
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1882 - Type of material
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Henry Russell, director of Sydney Observatory, sent out five parties to observe the transit of Venus in 1882. The party sent to Mount Lookout, Lord Howe Island, consisted of three members of the New South Wales Department of Lands, William Jacomb Conder, superintendent of trigonometrical surveys, Thomas Frederick Furber, draftsman-in-charge, and David Miller, clerk to Surveyor General, with Timothy Coghlan, draftsman of the Department of Public Works. Their expedition was unsuccessful because of unfavourable weather - Scope and Content1 box of textual material
Notebook kept on the Transit of Venus Expedition to Lord Howe Island, November 1882. Consists mainly of entries in diary form from 20 Nov. - 20 Dec. 1882, illustrated with pencil sketches - Description source
Information upgraded from Manuscripts Leaf Catalogue No. 1 (7-1093C) as part of the eRecords Project, 2010-2011 - General note
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