Great Britain - Royal Greenwich Observatory Archive, Cambridge University Library - Board of Longitude - Records, 1714-1838

PRO 1727-1733, 1740-1759

fonds

Canberra : Australian Joint Copying Project, [19--]

432271

Microfilm : PRO 1727-1733, 1740-1759 (BL/1-54). See further details in AJCP Handbook, Part 6, pp.95-97.

7 microfilm reels - 35 mm

Includes accounts of meetings of the Board of Longitude at which arrangements were made for sending out astronomers with Captain Cook's expeditions to South Seas. Logbooks of Adventure (1772-1774) and Resolution (1772-1775) contain astronomical observations and charts made by Wales and Bayly, whose instruments are listed in pieces 5 and 6 (PRO 1728-1729). Also includes astronomical observations made by Cook, in 1776 (PRO 1756, piece 47) and 1778-1780 (PRO 1756, piece 48). Includes other astronomers on voyages of exploration, 1763-1805, including the Daedalus.
Includes records relating to Matthew Flinders and the Investigator, 1801-1805 (PRO 1757-1758, pieces 50-52).
Includes William Dawes' papers, 1786-1792, piece 36, pp.238-308 (PRO 1753).

Original held by the National Archives (Great Britain), formerly the Public Record Office, London.

National Library of Australia holds the microfilm masters.
Filmed as part of the Australian Joint Copying Project, by the National Library of Australia and the State Library of New South Wales.
Australian Joint Copying Project Handbook. Part 6 : Board of Trade; Treasury; Exchequer and Audit Department; Privy Council; Board of Longitude - class and piece list, pp.95-97.
Public Record Office Board of Longitude
Originals held in the Royal Greenwich Observatory Archive, located in the Cambridge University Library.
Refer to the National Library of Australia’s AJCP Portal (https://www.nla.gov.au/content/australian-joint-copying-project) for information on Australian Joint Copying Project reels digitised in 2019/20