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Science and the Raj : a study of British India /Deepak Kumar. "[Science and the Raj] explores the link between science, technology, and the process of colonization in the context of British India."--Dust jacket. 2006. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 5(540)"18/19"

Tables de la lune : d'apres le principe Newtonien de la gravitation universelle Hansen, P A 1857 • RARE-BOOK • 2 copies available. 523.3-32

Then and now : a short history of the Union-Castle line. A brief history of the Union-Castle Mail Steamship Company Ltd which held the mail contract between South Africa and England from 1857. Resulting from an amalgamation in 1900 between the Union Steam Ship Company, founded in 1853, and the Castle Packets Company, founded in 1872, Union-Castle went on to carry a wide range of cargoes as well as passengers between the two countries. 195?] • PAMPHLET • 1 copy available. 347.792UNION-CASTLE

Bayly's war : the battle for the western approaches in the first world war /Steve R Dunn "Bayly's War is the story of the Royal Navy's Coast of Ireland Command (later named Western Approaches Command) during World War One. Britain was particularly vulnerable to the disruption of trade in the Western Approaches through which food and munitions (and later soldiers) from North America and the Caribbean and ores and raw materials from the Southern Americas, all passed on their way to Liverpool or the Channel ports and London. After the sinking of the Lusitania in May 1915 and the introduction of unrestricted submarine warfare by the Germans, Britain found herself engaged in a fight for survival as U-boats targeted all incoming trade in an attempt to drive her into submission. Britain's naval forces, based in Queenstown on the southern Irish coast, fought a long and arduous battle to keep the seaways open, and it was only one they began to master after American naval forces joined in 1917. Vice-Admiral Sir Lewis Bayly was the man appointed to the Coast of Ireland Command. A fierce disciplinarian with a mania for efficiency, and thought by some of his colleagues to be more than a little mad, Bayly took the fight to the enemy. Utilising any vessel he could muster -- trawlers, tugs, yachts -- as well as the few naval craft at his disposal, he set out to hunt down the enemy submarines. The command also swept for mines, escorted merchantmen and fought endlessly against the harsh Atlantic weather. Relief came When America sent destroyers to Queenstown to serve under him, and Bayly, to the surprise of many, integrated the command into a homogenous fighting force. Along the way, the Command had to deal with the ambivalent attitude of the Irish population, the 1916 Easter Rising, the attempt to land arms on Ireland's west coast and the resurgence of Irish nationalism in 1917. Bayly's War is a vivid account of this vigorous defence of Britain's trade and brings to life the U-boat battles, Q-ship actions, merchant ship sinkings and rescues as well as the tireless Bayly, the commander at the centre."--Provided by the publisher. 2018 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 940.451(417)

A personal narrative of the discovery of the North-West Passage : with numerous incidents of travel and adventure during nearly five years' continuous service in the Arctic regions while in search of the expedition under Sir John Franklin Armstrong, Alex 1857 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 623.82Investigator

The East India Company : a history An overview of the East India Company's history dating from its foundation by charter in 1600 to its demise in 1857 following the Indian Mutiny. A trading organisation which became an imperial power with its own armed forces, the impact of the Company's history is explored against both the Indian and British contexts. 1993 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 347.71East India

The China station : war and diplomacy, 1830-1860 / by Gerald S. Graham. Graham, Gerald S 1978. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.48"1830/1860"(51)

Letters of Queen Henrietta Maria, including her private correspondence with Charles the First : collected from the public archives and private Libraries of France and England /ed. by Mary Anne Everett Green. 1857. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 92Henrietta

Investigations in the theory of reflected ray-surfaces, and their relation to plane reflected caustics. Also, in the appendix, a theory of plane caustic curves, identified with the evolute of the auxiliary curve of equiangular intersection Childe, G F 1857 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 535

Polar scenes, exhibited in the voyages of Heemskirk and Barenz to the northern regions, and in the adventures of four Russian sailors at the Island of Spitzbergen Campe, M 1821 • RARE-BOOK • 2 copies available. 094:910.4(984)"1596/1597"

The Arctic whaleman, or winter in the Arctic Ocean : a brief history of whaling /Lewis Holmes. Holmes, Lewis. 1857. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 639.245(98)

The arctic Whaling Journals of William Scorseby the Younger: Volume 1 The voyages of 1811, 1812 and 1813 "William Scoresby (1789-1857) made his first voyage in the whaler Resolution from Whitby to the Greenland Sea, west of Spitsbergen in 1800. Three years later he was formally apprenticed to his father and another three years saw him promoted to chief officer. On his 21st birthday 'the earliest at which, by reason of age, I could legally hold a command' his father moved to Greenock and another ship, relinquishing the Resolution to his son".--Provided by the publisher. The introduction to this book gives extensive background to Scoresby's family, the whaling process and the development of scientific information relating to the arctic region. The journals of the three voyages follow, with maps of the journeys and illustrations. 2003 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 639.245.1

Missionary travels and researches in South Africa : including a sketch of sixteen years' residence in the interior of Africa, and a journey from the Cape of Good Hope to Loanda on the west coast, thence across the continent, down the river Zambesi, to the eastern ocean /by David Livingstone. Livingstone, David, 1857. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 910.4(6)

An abstract of the returns made to the Lords of the Committee of Privy Council for Trade of wrecks and casualties which occurred on or near the coasts of the United Kingdom from the 1st January to the 31st December 1856 Great Britain. Parliament 1857 • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 656.61.085(42)

A two years' cruise off Tierra del Fuego, the Falkland Islands, Patagonia and in the River Plate : a narrative of life in the southern seas Snow, W Parker 1857 • BOOK • 2 copies available. 918.2

The laying of a bibliographical ghost : the solving of a 37-year-old vexed question as to the existence or otherwise of an 1819 issue of Robert Southey's Life of Nelson : being an Addendum to Between wind & water (2015) and Southey's 'Nelson' (2019) /Michael Nash Nash, Michael 2024. • PAMPHLET • 1 copy available.

The life of William Scoresby / by R. E. Scoresby-Jackson. A biography of William Scoresby (1789-1857), whaler, explorer, scientist and clergyman, written by his nephew. Scoresby was the son of whaler William Scoresby. On completing his schooling, he accompanied his father as chief officer on the whaler Resolution and during a voyage with him in 1806 reached the highest northern latitude attained in the eastern hemisphere - a record which stood for 21 years. Attending Edinburgh University, Scoresby studied natural philosophy and chemistry and during a voyage in 1807, he embarked on the study of meterology and the natural history of the polar regions. In 1811 he took over command of the Resolution, continuing his polar studies during his whaling voyages, and in 1822, on his last polar voyage, he surveyed and charted 400 miles of the east coast of Greenland. In 1819 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and in 1824 a Fellow of the Royal Society. An active member of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, much of Scoresby's research focused on terrestrial magnetism. On entering the church following the death of his wife, Scoresby received his Bachelor's Degree in Divinity from Cambridge in 1834. As vicar of Bradford from 1839-1846 Scoresby continued his scientific studies and interest in social conditions. Scoresby married three times and died in Torquay, Devon. 1861. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 537.6

Climatology of the United States, and of the temperate latitudes of the North American continent. Embracing a full comparison of these with the climatology of the temperate latitudes of Europe and Asia. And especially in regard to agriculture, sanitary investigations, and engineering with isothermal and rain charts for each season, the extreme months and the year Blodget, Lorin 1857 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 527.093M

Gale force 10 : the life and legacy of Admiral Beaufort A biography of Francis Beaufort (1774-1857). Beginning his career with the East India Company, Beaufort joined the Royal Navy in 1790 and rose through the ranks, retiring with the rank of Rear Admiral in 1846 at the age of seventy-two. In 1805, Beaufort devised the first objective measure of wind strength, now known as the Beaufort Scale, officially adopted by the Royal Navy on voyages during the 1830s. He was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1829, was appointed the British Admiralty Hydrographer of the Royal Navy, serving in that position for twenty-six years, and helped to found the Royal Geographical Society. He trained Robert Fitzroy, commander of the Beagle, and in response to Fitzroy's request for a "well-educated and scientific gentleman", Beaufort's enquiries led to Charles Darwin joining the Beagle for her second voyage. Beaufort promoted the publication of reliable tide tables, expanded the British Admiralty Chart Series to some 2000 charts, directed some of the major naval explorations of the time, and played a leading role in the search for the explorer Sir John Franklin. He was knighted in 1848. 2002 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.124(42)"17/18"

Report of the Astronomer Royal to the Board of Visitors : read at the annual visitation of the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, 1862, June 7. Airy, George Biddell,-Sir, 1862 • RARE-FOLIO • 2 copies available. 520.1:094

Report of the Astronomer Royal to the Board of Visitors : read at the annual visitation of the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, 1858, June 5. Airy, George Biddell,-Sir, 1858 • RARE-FOLIO • 2 copies available. 520.1:094

Report of the Astronomer Royal to the Board of Visitors : read at the annual visitation of the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, 1859, June 4. Airy, George Biddell,-Sir, 1859 • RARE-FOLIO • 2 copies available. 520.1:094

Report of the Astronomer Royal to the Board of Visitors : read at the annual visitation of the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, 1864, June 4. Airy, George Biddell,-Sir, 1864 • RARE-FOLIO • 2 copies available. 520.1:094

Report of the Astronomer Royal to the Board of Visitors : read at the annual visitation of the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, 1865, June 3. Airy, George Biddell,-Sir, 1865 • RARE-FOLIO • 2 copies available. 520.1:094

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