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3. Astronomy demonstrated: instruments and models
Astrolabes and quadrants
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A Sea of Symbols
Captain George Pechell Mends (circa 1814 – 1871)
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armament t&e, edged weapon: arrow
armament t&e, edged weapon: bow
Arrow
Artificial Glass Horizon
astronomical t&e: telescope, achromatic(triple achromatic)
Badge: Royal Hanovarian Guelphic Order, 2nd class
bedding: blanket, point
blanket, point
Block model
book
Boots
Boots, pair
Bow
Box Sextant
building: church
building: fort
Bust
Calendar
Canteen
ceremonial artifact: flag, sledge
Chart
clothing, footwear: boot(pair)
clothing, headwear: hat
clothing, headwear: uniform: hat, cocked
clothing, headwear: uniform: uniform, Captain's
clothing, outerwear: smock
clothing, outerwear: trousers
clothing accessory: glove, outer
clothing accessory: mitt
clothing accessory: staybusk
Cocked hat
compass
Dip circle
documentary artifact: manual, student's(fragment-2 pages only)
documentary artifact: model, ethnographic boat
drafting t&e: rule, parallel
Drawing
Figure
fishing & trapping t&e: flenser, whaling(blubber spade?)
fishing & trapping t&e: harpoon, whaling
flenser, whaling
food service t&e: canteen
food service t&e: rations: biscuit, ship's
food service t&e: rations: can, food
food service t&e: rations: pemmican, tin of(arctic food)
food service t&e: rations: sample, meat
Full hull model
Full hull model; Block model
game: puzzle, jigsaw
Glove, outer
Hat
hat, cocked
iceworking t&e: knife, snow
Insulated compass
Insulating compass
Jackstaff
Jigsaw puzzle
leatherworking t&e: knife, ulu
MAP-SHEET
Marine chronometer
Meat sample
Medal
medical & psychological t&e: chest, medicine
Medicine chest
Microscope
Mitt
musical t&e: violin
Naval telescope
Night telescope
optical t&e: microscope
optical t&e: telescope
Order
Ore sample
Ore samples
original art: ornament
original art: print
original art: sculpture: bust
other structure: harbour
Outer glove
Painting
Parallel rule
personal gear: goggles, snow(anti snow blindness shield)
personal gear: satchel
personal symbol: Royal Hanovarian Guelphic Order
Plate
Pocket chronometer
Pocket compass
Pocket Quintant
presentation artifact: badge, Knight Commander
Print
Prize medal
Prize medal, British: Royal Geographical Society, 1835
quintant, pocket
relic, animal: zoological specimen: beaver, stuffed
relic: geological specimen: sample, ore(7 samples)
rubber, seam
Satchel
Seam rubber
Ship's biscuit
Shotgun
Sledge compass
Sledge flag
Smock
Snow goggles
Snow knife
Staybusk
Student's manual
Stuffed beaver
surveying & navigational t&e: artificial horizon
surveying & navigational t&e: circle, dip
surveying & navigational t&e: compass
surveying & navigational t&e: compass, pocket
surveying & navigational t&e: compass, pocket: compass, sledge
surveying & navigational t&e: sextant, box
surveying & navigational t&e: sextant, pocket
Sword
Telescope
timekeeper: chronometer, marine
timekeeper: chronometer, marine(8 day)
timekeeping t&e: chronometer, pocket
Tin
Tinned pemmican
Token
Trousers
Ulu (knife)
Violin
Watercolour
water transport: exploration/research vessel
water transport: exploration/research vessel (HMS)
water transport: exploration/research vessel: bomb vessel (HMS)
water transport: fighting vessel: bomb vessel (HMS)
water transport: fighting vessel: frigate
water transport: fighting vessel: sloop
water transport: fighting vessel: warship (74 gun)
water transport: model, exhibition: full hull model(decked)
water transport: native craft: kayak, eskimo (Caribou)
water transport: research/exploration vessel: discovery vessel
water transport: sailing vessel: barque
water transport: steam vessel: yacht
water transport: unknown function: sloop (HMS)
water transport accessory: jackstaff
Whale tooth
Whaling harpoon
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A. Constable & Co
Andrieu, Bertrand
Arnold, John Roger
Aspin, Jehoshophat
Back, George
Bate, Robert
Boehm, Josef Daniel
British School, 19th century
Cary
Cary, William
Crichton
Cruikshank, George
Dollond & Aitchison
Finden, Edward Francis
Firmin & Sons Limited
Franklin, Jane
Gilbert & Sons
Gillott & Hasell
Goldner, Stephen
Gould, Rupert
Gould, Rupert Thomas
Hewitt, N. R.
Hicks, G. H.
HM Admiralty
Hodges, William
Hudson's Bay Company
Humphrey, George
Jansson, Jan
Jennings and Company
John Adams & Son
John Tallis & Co
Lizars, D
Lizars, William Home
Lucchesi, Andrea Carlo
Marcassus, Jean Pierre Casimir de
Mercator, Gerardus
Murray, John
Musin, Francois Etienne
N., I.
Negelen, Joseph Mathias
Parkinson & Frodsham
Richard Timmins & Sons
Robinson
Robinson, Thomas Charles
Romilly, Amelie
Ross, John
Sackhouse, John
Scoresby, Reverend William
Smyth, William Henry
Starbeck Taxidermy
Thomson, John
Timmins, R & Sons
Unknown
W. & D. Lizars, William Home & Daniel
Waddel, James
Walker, J.
Webber, John
Wildman, John Robert
Wyon, William
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Antarctic Exploration: British National Antarctic Expedition, 1901-1904
Arctic Exploration: Back's voyage, 1833-1835
Arctic Exploration: Back's voyage, 1836-1837
Arctic Exploration: Buchan's voyage, 1818
Arctic Exploration: Dr John Rae, 1853-1854
Arctic Exploration: Franklin's First Overland Expedition, 1819-1822
Arctic Exploration: Franklin's Last Expedition, 1845-1848
Arctic Exploration: Franklin's Second Overland Expedition, 1825-1827
Arctic Exploration: Franklin Search Expedition, Austin, 1850-1851
Arctic Exploration: Franklin Search Expedition, Belcher, 1852-1854
Arctic Exploration: Franklin Search Expedition, Hall, 1864-1869
Arctic Exploration: Franklin Search Expedition, Inglefield, 1852
Arctic Exploration: Franklin Search Expedition, McClintock, 1857-1859
Arctic Exploration: Franklin Search Expedition, Schwatka, 1878-1880
Arctic Exploration: Parry's first voyage, 1819-1820
Arctic Exploration: Parry's second voyage, 1821-1823
Arctic Exploration: Ross' First Voyage, 1818-1819
Arctic Exploration: Ross' second voyage, 1829-1833
Exploration: Cook's Third Voyage, 1776
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Adventure (purchased 1771)
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Earl of Mar and Kellie (1856)
Erebus (1826)
Fox (1855)
Fury (1814)
Griper (1813)
Hecla (1815)
Isabella (1813)
Phoenix (1832)
Resolute (purchased 1850)
Resolution (purchased 1771)
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Art for the Nation
Ministry of Defence Art Collection
Nelson, Navy, Nation
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Ships, Clocks & Stars: The Quest for Longitude
The Art and Science of Exploration, 1768-80
The Atlantic: Slavery, Trade, Empire
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Arnold, John Roger
Australian Landscape Touring Exhibition
Back, George
Blake, William Hans
British Institution ?
Co, Hudson Bay
Cook, James
Franklin, Jane
Franklin, John
Frobisher, Martin
Greenwich Hospital
Harrison, Paymaster Edward Newell
HM Admiralty
Hudson's Bay Company
Kallihirua, Erasmus
Kenyon, Walter A.
King William IV
Liverpool City Bacteriologist's Laboratory
McClintock, Francis Leopold
McClintock, John Leopold Elphinstone
McClure, Robert John Le Mesurier
Negelen, Joseph Mathias
Ommanney, Erasmus
Parry, William Edward
Pim, Bedford Clapperton Tryvillion
Ross, Arthur
Ross, James Clark
Ross, John
Royal Academy of Arts, London
Scott, Robert Falcon
West, John
Young, W (RN)
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Septentrionalium terrarum descriptio per Gerardum Mercatorem cum privilegio (Chart)
Badge: Legion of Honour, 3rd class (Order)
Badge: Order of the Bath, 3rd class (military) (Order)
Violin with case (Violin)
Prize medal: Royal Geographical Society 1835 (Prize medal)
Prize medal: Royal Geographical Society 1837 (Prize medal)
Whaling harpoon
Qalasirssuaq (Erasmus Augustine Kallihirua), circa 1832/5-1856 (Painting)
Prize medal
snow goggles, Inuit type (Snow goggles)
Large Gold medal, Société de Géographie, Paris, 1827 (Prize medal)
Large Gold medal, Société de Géographie, Paris, 1827 (Prize medal)
Hat
Ship's biscuit (Ship's biscuit)
Jigsaw puzzle (Jigsaw puzzle)
Satchel
Trousers
'Perilous position of H.M.S. Terror, Captain Back, in the Arctic Regions in the summer of 1837' (Painting)
Royal Naval uniform: pattern 1843 (Cocked hat)
HMS Erebus in the Ice, 1846 (Painting)
Sir James Clark Ross, 1800-62 (Painting)
First communication with the Natives of Prince Regents Bay, as Drawn by John Sackhouse and presented to Capt. Ross, Augt 10, 1818 (Print)
Tinned pemmican
Sledge flag (Sledge flag)
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