SZ/CSA/2/118 - [Letter, R. Woolley to R.N. Quirk, 6/9/62]

Reference code

SZ/CSA/2/118

Level of description

Item

Title

[Letter, R. Woolley to R.N. Quirk, 6/9/62]

Date/s

1962

Quantity & Format

1 leaf Letters (typescript)

Personal name

Pagel, B. E. J.
Bok, Bart J.

Subject

United Kingdom. Admiralty
Royal Observatory (Cape Town)

Creator

Woolley, Richard,

Creator

Quirk, Roger Nathaniel

Administrative/Biographical history

recipient

Scope and content

Discusses press reports of remarks made by Pagel and Bok regarding the southern telescope. Woolley's opinion is that the Royal observatory on the Cape of Good Hope should be fitted with a large telescope. If the status of the land is in question, given South Africa's recent move to become a republic, then the observatory could be moved to Australia. Discusses the Admiralty's control of British astronomy.

SZ/CSA/2/116-117

Related correspondence attached [SZ/CSA/2/116-117].

SZ - Zuckerman Archive
- SZ/CSA - [Chief Scientific Adviser's papers]
  - SZ/CSA/2 - [CSA. ACSP meetings and correspondence arising]
    - SZ/CSA/2/118 - [Letter, R. Woolley to R.N. Quirk, 6/9/62]

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