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31. A portable altazimuth telescope used on the Transit of Venus expeditions of 1874.
*A portable altazimuth telescope used on the Transit of Venus expeditions of 1874. This was one of five altazimuth instruments commissioned from Troughton and Simms for the British Transit of Venus expeditions of 1874. An altazimuth...
32. A portable altazimuth telescope used on the Transit of Venus expedition to New Zealand.
*A portable altazimuth telescope used on the Transit of Venus expedition to New Zealand. This altazimuth instrument was acquired by the Royal Observatory in 1866 and went to New Zealand for the 1874 Transit of Venus expedition, where the...
33. A portable transit instrument.
*A portable transit instrument. A portable transit instrument similar to that used on James Cook’s Transit of Venus expedition of 1769. This telescope is made by Jesse Ramsden...
34. A replica of the tent used on the Transit of Venus expedition of 1769.
*A replica of the tent used on the Transit of Venus expedition of 1769. A replica of the tent used as a portable observatory on James Cook’s first voyage to the Pacific, a voyage that included the observation of the...
35. An equatorial telescope ready for the Transit of Venus expeditions of 1874.
*An equatorial telescope ready for the Transit of Venus expeditions of 1874. One of the equatorial telescopes in its portable wooden hut, ready for the Transit of Venus expeditions of 1874.
36. A sextant used on Cook's third voyage.
*A sextant used on Cook's third voyage. This sextant is reputed to have been used on Cook's third voyage to the South Pacific. It is one of four known to have survived from Cook's three...
37. A photoheliograph for Station B (Honolulu) of the Transit of Venus expedition of 1874.
*A photoheliograph for Station B (Honolulu) of the Transit of Venus expedition of 1874. A photoheliograph set up in its portable hut ready to be shipped to Station B at Honolulu, one of the five camps of the Transit of Venus expeditions...
38. A glass plate showing 48 exposures of the planet Venus crossing the Sun.
*A glass plate showing 48 exposures of the planet Venus crossing the Sun. A glass negative of the Transit of Venus of 1874, taken by French astronomer Jules Janssen. It is a circular negative in a square wooden frame. It...
39. A glass negative of the Transit of Venus of 1874, taken from Rodriguez.
*A glass negative of the Transit of Venus of 1874, taken from Rodriguez. A glass negative of the Transit of Venus of 1874. It containes one exposure of the planet Venus crossing the Sun’s limb. A paper label stuck...
40. A Chinese pocket compass, c. 1900.
*A Chinese pocket compass, c. 1900. This pocket compass was made in China, c. 1900. It was probably brought back as a souvenir.
 
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