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The transformation of the Board of Trade 1830-1855 : a study of administrative reorganization in the Prouty, Roger 1957 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 354.82BOT"1830/1855"

Notes on four Admiralty Registry letter books (1795-1810, 1853-4, 1854-5, 1855-6) McGuffie, Kenneth C 1964 • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 354.71(044)

East sails West : the voyage of the Keying, 1846-1855 /Stephen Davies. In December 1846, the Keying, a Chinese junk purchased by British investors, set sail from Hong Kong for London. Named after the Chinese Imperial Commissioner who had signed away Hong Kong to the British, manned by a Chinese and European crew, and carrying a traveling exhibition of Chinese items, the Keying had a troubled voyage. After quarrels on the way and a diversion to New York, culminating in a legal dispute over arrears of wages for Chinese members of the crew, it finally reached London in 1848, where it went on exhibition on the River Thames until 1853. It was then auctioned off, towed to Liverpool, and finally broken up. In this account of the ship, the crew and the voyage, Stephen Davies tells a story of missed opportunities, with an erratic course, overambitious aims, and achievements born of lucky breaks -- a microcosm, in fact, of early Hong Kong and of the relations between China and the West. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 910.45

The Royal Navy in Indigenous Australia, 1795-1855 : maritime encounters and British Museum Collections Simpson, Daniel. 2020. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 305.899/15

sailing and copper-bottomed" : Aberdeen sailing ships and the emigrant Scots they carried to Canada, 1774-1855 Campey, Lucille H. 2002. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 325.2(410.5:71)

: with the lines of attack of the allied armies previous to the final assault on the 8th September 1855 Jones, Harry, Sir 1855 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.49"1855"(477.7)

Patents for inventions : abridgments of specifications : class 139 watches, clocks and other timekeepers 1855 Great Britain. Patent Office 1905-1907 • BOOK • 2 copies available. 681.11(088.8)

Naval hydrography, charismatic bureaucracy, and the British military state, 1825-1855 / Megan Barford "This thesis is an investigation into writing and record keeping practices of those in and around the Hydrographic Office of the Admiralty in the earlier-nineteenth century. It looks at the Hydrographic Office in the context of early-Victorian adminsitrative growth and the print culture of the Royal Navy. In doing so it draws on media-theoretic approaches to paperwork and archives which insist on treating them as topics for invesitigation, and suggests that these can be used to examine fundemental issues of the establishment and effacement of self, and group, and profession, and public as created through a sophisticated bureaucratic system. Hydrographic surveyors were a group of naval officers who role stressed record keeping in a peculiarly acute way, but this was underwritten by an intensive concern in this period about both record keeping and life writing. In particular this thesis focus on the bureaucratic practices at the Admiralty in London and on survey ships as the operated in regions of particular colonial, commercial or strategic importance to the British. It goes on to examine how the work of hydrography was defined and promoted in a popular magazine, explores a particular survery carried out on the St Lawrence River, and describes the way in which the circulation of instruments was managed within a system that relied on personal relationships between those involved. In finally discussing an episode when the system of correspondence organised by the office was placed under the greatest strain, the thesis explores ideas of institutional memory and absolution. As such, the work is a contribution to literature on paperwork, professionalism, and the early-Victorian state."--Provided by the author. 2016 • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 528.47

Royal to the Board of Visitors : read at the annual visitation of the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, 1855 Airy, George Biddell,-Sir, 1855 • RARE-FOLIO • 1 copy available. 520.1:094

Reminiscences of Seattle, Washington Territory, and of the US sloop-of-war Decatur during the Indian war of 1855 Phelps, Thomas 1970 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 623.824Decatur

anniversaire de la Societe Royale Astronomique de Londres : par le conseil de cette societe, le 9 Fevrier 1855 Royal Astronomical Society 1855 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 5:094

The Crimean War journals (1854-1855) of Henry Woodfall Crowe : on board HMS Duke of Wellington /reasearched Crowe, Bernard Robert 2012. • BOOK • 2 copies available. 92CROWE

. / Horsburgh, James. 1855. Horsburgh, James 1855 • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 527.83(264:267)

Arc du meridien de 25 deg 20 min entre le Danube et la mer glaciale mesure depuis 1816 jusqu'en 1855 Struve, F G W 1860 • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 528.42(4-17)

land Arctic searching expedition : James Anderson's and James Stewart's expedition via the Black River 1855 1999 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 910.4(712.2)"1855"

of HMS Enterprise, on the expedition in search of Sir John Franklin's ships by Behring Strait, 1850-1855 Collinson, Richard 1889 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 92Collinson

diary of the voyage of the clipper ship Ralph Waller : Liverpool to Melbourne 4th January to 7th April 1855 Butters, James. 19??] • PAMPHLET • 1 copy available. 629.123RALPH WALLER

Arc du meridien de 25 20 entre le Danube et la mer glaciale, mesure, depuis 1816 jusqu'en 1855 Struve, F.G.W. 1860 • RARE-FOLIO • 2 copies available. 527.09

Japan : de drie diplomatieke reizen van kapitein G Fabius ter opening van Deschima en Nagasaki in 1854, 1855 1988 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 92Fabius

An Act to amend The Merchant Shipping Act 1854, The Merchant Shipping Act Amendment Act 1855, and The Great Britain. Laws, statutes etc 1862 • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 656.61

The Merchant Shipping Acts, 1854 and 1855, with a readable abridgment of the former Act, and an explanation Dowdeswell, George Morley 1856 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 342.537

March the 5th, 1855 ... Bernal, Ralph (coll) 1855 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 681(085)

., 1852-1855 /edited by John A. Wolter, David A. Ranzan, and John J. McDonough. "With Commodore Perry to Japan offers a personal account of Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry's expedition to Japan through the eyes of a sixteen-year-old purser's clerk of the USS Mississippi. The documentary edition, endorsed by the National Historic Publications & Records Commission, provides excellent coverage of both the political mission of the Perry expedition, the opening of relations with Japan, and of the social history of a naval warship as well. Also included are fifty-five illustrations ranging from hand drawn, pen-and-ink scenes of everyday life sketched by Speiden and other members of the crew to exquisitely detailed pith paintings by Chinese artists."--Provided by the publisher. [2013]. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 92SPEIDEN

A narrative of the mission to the court of Ava in 1855 together with the journal of Arthur Phayre, envoy Phayre, Arthur 1968 • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 910.4(591)"1855"

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