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A history of the British zoophytes / by George Johnston.
Date: 1838- Archives and manuscripts
Company-wide Newsletters & Journals (internal)
Date: 1942 - 2000Reference: WF/M/PB/01Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Books
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A history of the British hydroid zoophytes / by Thomas Hincks.
Date: 1868- Books
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The nature-printed British sea-weeds : a history, accompanied by figures and dissections of the algae of the British Isles / by William Grosart Johnstone and Alexander Croall ; nature-printed by Henry Bradbury.
Date: 1859-1860- Books
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In the House of Lords. Between John Horne, clerk, - - - - - - - plaintiff in error, and our sovereign Lord the King, - - - defendant in error.
Great Britain. Sovereign (1760-1820 : George III)Date: 1778]- Books
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1797. 3 May. By Order in Council an Act of Parliament Petty Officers, (except Surgeon's Mates) Seamen, Ordinary Seamen, Landmen and Marines pay to be increased. Petty Officers and Seamen - 056 a Month Ordinary Seamen - 046 Landmen 036 Marines-Serjeants 048 Corporal 046 Private - 053 To commence the 24th April 1797. 1798. 21 September. Men belonging to Gangs in hired Tenders to be allowed the encreased Pay. Order in Council 1799, 26 April. - Commanders in Vessels not bearing Pursers, whose Complements do not exceed 60, to have 8s. a Day. Order in Council, 1799, 1 May-Lieutenants commanding Prison Ships to have 6s. a Day, and Compensation for two Servants.
Great Britain. Royal Navy.Date: 1799?]- Books
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Steel's original and correct list of the Royal Navy, hired armed-vessels, gun-boats, &c. With their commanders and stations. To which are added the following lists, &c. Establishment of rates and men page 2 Appointment of officers - 2 Pursers superrannuation - 2 Establishment of ships in Ordinary - 2 Contractions explained - - 2 Comparative rank of officers - 2 Widows annual pensions - - 2 Navy-agents - - - - 2 Navy-list, with the pursers 3 to 14 Hired armed vessels, cutt. & lug. 15 Gun and fire vessels - - - 16 Revenue and excise cutters - 16 Naval fencibles - - - 16 Statement of the British Nav. force 17 Total of all captures - 17 Advertisements to correspondents 17 Admirals - - - - 18 Admirals & their secretaries pay page 19 Admirals stations and secretaries 19 Admirals pensions - - - 19 Superannuated admirals - - 19 Post-captains - - - 20 Captains pay, half-pay, superannuation, and pensions - - 21 Commanders - - - 22 Retired lientenants - - 23 Lieutenants - - 23 to 28 Lieuts. pay, half-pay, and pensions 29 Masters - - - - 29 Masters pay, half-pay, superannuations, and pensions - - 30 Physicians and surgeons - page 31 Surgeons pay, half-pay, & bounty 32 Impress service - - - 33 Agent victuallers - - - 33 Governors of Royal Hospitals - 33 Master builders at the different yards 33 Marine forces - - 34 to 36 Signal towers - - - 36 French ships taken, &c. - 37 Dutch ships taken, &c. - 42 Spanish ships taken, &c. - 43 British ships lost, taken, &c. - 44 Prize and head-money payable - 40 Command. who have lost their lives 47 Admiralty, navy, and other public offices - - - - 49 Corrected to March, 1800, and to be continued monthly. Price Sixpence.
Great Britain. Royal Navy.Date: 1800- Books
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Steel's original and correct list of the Royal Navy, hired armed-vessels, gun-boats, revenue and excise cutters, packets, and India ships, with their commanders and stations. To which are added the following lists, &c. Navy-Agents Page 2 Master-Builders at the King's Yards 2 Navy-List, with the Pursers 3 to 16 Statement of the British Nav. Force 17 Terms of purchasing British Vessels taken by the Enemy 17 Advertisements - 17 Admirals 16 Admirals Pay, Pensions, Superannuation, and Secretaries - 19 Greenwich-Hospital 19 Governors & Lieutenants to Royal-Hospitals - 19 Bost-Captains - 20 Captains Pay, Half-Pay, Superannuation, and Pensions - Page 21 Commanders - 22 Lieutenants 23 Lieutenants Pay, Half-Pay, Superannuation, and Pensions - 29 Matters 29 Masters Pay, Half-Pay, and Superannuation 30 Physicians and Surgeons 31 Surgeons Pay, Half-Pay, & Bounty 32 Widows Pensions in general - 33 Agent Victuallers - 33 Packets 33 Marine Forces - 34 Signal Towers - 36 French Ships taken 37 British Ships taken - 42 Dutch and Spanish Ships taken Page 41 Impress-Service - 43 Revenue and Hired Cutters - 44 India Ships - 46 Monthly Calendar of Head and Prize Money - 47 Command, who have lost their Lives 48 Lords of the Admiralty 49 Admiralty Judges - 49 Navy Pay-Office - 49 Commissioners of Navy, Transport, Victualling, Sick and Hurt, and Greenwich-Hospital 49 Agents for Transports 49 Elders of the Trinity 49 Distrib. of Prize-Money & Gratuities 50 Corrected to February, 1797, And to be continued monthly, during War, and quarterly, during Peace, price sixpence.
Great Britain. Royal Navy.Date: [1797]- Books
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Steel's original and correct list of the Royal Navy hired armed-vessels, gun-boats, &c. packets, excise and revenue cutters, &c. With their commanders and stations. To which are Added the Following Lasts, &c. Admirals --- Page 18 Admirals & their Secretaries Pay 19 Admirals Pensions --- 19 Admirals Stations and Secretaries 19 Admiralty, Navy, and other Public Offices ---- 52 Advertisements to Correspondents 17 Agent Victualiers --- 51 Appointment of Officers 2 British Ships lost, taken, &c. - 44 Captains' Pay & Half-Pay - 21 Commanders --- 21 & 22 Compand who have lop their Lives 47 Comparative Rank of Others - 2 Contractions explained 2 Dutch Ships taken, &c. - 42 Establishment of Rates and Men - 2 Establishment of Ships in Ordinary 2 Excise and Revenue Cutters - 50 French Ships taken, &c. - 37 Governors of Royal Hospitals - 51 Gun and Fire Vessels --- 16 Hired Armed Vessels, Cutt. & Lug. 15 Impress Service --- 51 Lieutenants 23 to 28 Lieuts. Pay. Half-Pay, and Pensions 29 Marine Forces 34 to 36 Master Builders at the different Yards 51 Masiers ---- 29 & 30 Masters Pay, Half-Pay, Superannuations, and Pensions 30 Naval Fencibles --- 17 Navy-Agents ---- 2 Navy-List, with the Pursers 3 to 14 Packets ---- 33 Pentioned Captains --- 19 Phyticians and Surgeons - 31 & 32 Poor Knights of Windsor 47 Post Captains ---- 20 & 21 Prize and Head-Money payable 48 & 49 Pursers Superrannuation - 2 Retired Lieutenants 23 Signal Towers --- 30 Spanish Ships taken, &c. - 43 Statement of the British Nav.Force 17 Superannuated Admirals & Captains 19 Surgeons Pay-Half-Pay, & Bounty 32 Total of all Captures - 17 Widows Annual Pensions 2 Corrected to August, 1800, And to be continued Monthly. Price Sixpence.
Great Britain. Royal Navy.Date: [1800]- Books
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Steel's original and correct list of the Royal Navy, hired armed-vessels, gun-boats, revenue and excise cutters, and packets, with their commanders and stations. To which are Added the Following Lists, &c. Establishment of Rates and Men Page 2 Appointment of Officers - 2 Pursers Superrannuation - 2 Establishment of Ships in Ordinary 2 Contractions explained 2 Advance of Pay to Officers - 2 Widows Annual Pensions 2 Navy-Agents ---- 2 Navy-List, with the Puriers 3 to 14 Gun and Fire Vessels --- 15 Hired Armed Vessels, Cutt. & Lug. 16 Revenue and Excise Cutt. 16 Naval Fencibles --- 16 Statement of the British Nav.Force 17 Total of all Captures - 17 Advertisements to Correspondents 17 Admirals ---- 18 Admirals & their Secretaries Pay Page 19 Admirals Stations and Secretaries 19 Admirals Pensions --- 19 Superannuated Admirals 19 Post-Captains --- 20 Captains Pay, Half-Pay, Superannuation, and Pensions 21 Commanders --- 22 Retired Lieutenants 23 Lieutenants 23 to 28 Lieuts. Pay, Half-Pay, and Pensions 29 Masters ---- 29 Masters Pay, Half-Pay, Superannuations, and Pensions 30 Physicians and Surgeons - Page 31 Surgeons Pay, Half-Pay, & Bounty 32 Packets ---- 33 Marine Forces 34 to 36 Signal Towers --- 36 French Ships taken, &c. - 37 Dutch Ships taken, &c. - 42 Spanish Ships taken, &c. - 43 British Ships lost, taken, &c. - 45 Prize and Head-Money payable - 46 Command who have lost their Lives 47 Impress Service --- 48 Agent Victuallers --- 48 Governors of Royal Hospitals - 48 Master Builders at the different Yards 48 Admiralty, Navy, and other Public Offices --- 48 to 49 Corrected to October, 1799, And to be continued Monthly. Price Sixpence.
Great Britain. Royal Navy.Date: [1799]- Books
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The description and use of an universal and perpetual mathematical instrument. Shewing The most Expeditious and Exact Method of solving all practical Questions in Arithmetick, Trigonometry, Navigation, Dyalling, Astronomy, &c. Viz. Sun's Place, - Right Ascension, - Declination, - Amplitude, - Rising and Setting, and Equation of Time. Likewise The Dominical Letter, Cycle of the Sun, Golden Number, Epact, Fix'd and Moveable Feasts in both Accounts, Terms and their Returns, New and Full Moons, Moon's Southing, Time of High Water for Thirty-Four Havens, With the Eclipses of the Sun and Moon, Conjunction of the Superior and Transits of the two Inferior Planets over the Disk or Face of the Sun. By Benjamin Scott.
Scott, Benjamin, 1688-1751.Date: M.DCC.XXXIII. [1733]- Books
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A review of the British marine Cercariae / by Marie V. Lebour.
Lebour, Marie Victoria, 1876-1971.Date: 1912- Books
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On the light thrown on geology by submarine researches : being the substance of a communication made to the Royal Institution of Great Britain, Friday evening, the 23d February 1844 / by Edward Forbes.
Forbes, Edward, 1815-1854.Date: 1844- Books
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Before the Lords Commissioners of Appeals in Prize Causes. Appeal from the High Court of Admiralty. St. Eustatius and its dependencies, John Ingram of Billiter-Square, London, merchant, the claimant of fifty-seven hogsheads of sugar and forty-two pieces of canvas, as the property of John Campbell the elder, and Company of Glasgow, in North Britain, merchants, - - - - - - - appellant. Against the Right Honourable George Lord Rodney, and Major General John Vaughan, the commanders in chief, and the rest of the commanders, officers, mariners, marines, and soldiers, captors of the island of Saint Eustatius, and its dependencies, - - - - - - - - respondents, the appellant's case.
Great Britain. Lords Commissioners of Appeals in Prize Causes.Date: 1786?]- Books
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Before the Most Noble and Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners of Appeals in Prize Causes. Appeal from the High Court of Admiralty. St. Eustatius, and its dependencies. John Ingram of Billiter Square, London, merchant, the claimant of 57 hogsheads of sugar, and 42 pieces of canvas, as the property of John Campbell the elder, and Co. of Glasgow, in North-Britain, merchants, appellants. Against The Right Honourable George Brydges Lord Rodney and Major-General Vaughan, their officers, mariners, marines, and soldiers, captors of the said island of Saint Eustatius, and its dependencies, - - - respondents. Appendix to the respondents' case.
Great Britain. Lords Commissioners of Appeals in Prize Causes.Date: 1786?]- Books
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Before the Most Noble and Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners of Appeals in Prize Causes. An appeal from the Vice-Admiralty Court of New-York. Keyserlike Adelaer, Richard Brown, Master. Thomas Cullen, the Claimant on Behalf of Messrs. Thomas Cullen & Co. of Ostend, Merchants, pretended Subjects of the Emperor of Germany, as the true, lawful and sole Owners and Proprietors of the said Ship Keyserlike Adelaer, her Tackle, Apparel, Furniture, Stores, and Provisions, and all and singular the Goods, Wares, and Merchandizes laden therein, - - Appellant, against John Johnson, Commander of the private Ship of War the Surprize, his Officers and Mariners, the Captors of the said Ship and Goods, - - Respondents. The Respondents' case.
Great Britain. Lords Commissioners of Appeals in Prize Causes.Date: 1788?]- Books
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A report on the hygienic condition of the mercantile marine, and on the preventable diseases of merchant seamen / by Harry Leach.
Leach, Harry.Date: 1867- Books
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Before the Most Noble and Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners of Appeals in Prize Causes. Hoogskarpel, Gerrit Hermeyer, master. George Johnstone, Esquire, commander in chief of a squadron of His Majesty's ships and vessels, lately employed on a certain expedition against the cape of good hope and its dependencies, and the several commanders, officers, seamen, and mariners, on board of and belonging to the said ships and vessels composing the said squadron, the captors of the said ship and her cargo, - - - - appellants. Major-General William Medows, and the officers, soldiers, and others, of His Majesty's land forces, and the officers, privates, and others, of His Majesty's Royal Artillery, with the engineers serving under his command at the time of the capture and seizure of the said ship and her cargo, - respondents. An appeal from the High Court of Admiralty of England. The respondent's case.
Great Britain. Lords Commissioners of Appeals in Prize Causes.Date: 1786?]- Books
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Before the Most Noble and Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners of Appeals in Prize Causes. St. Eustatius, and its dependencies. Appeal from the High Court of Admiralty of England. Anthony Songa, of warnford court, throgmorton street, London, merchant, the claimant on behalf of sundry neutral subjects, appellant, against the Right Honourable Lord Rodney, and the Honourable Major-General John Vaughan, thier commanders, officers, seamen, marines, and soldiers, the captors of the said Island of St. Eustatius, - - - - - - - - respondents. Case on behalf of the appellant, as to claim no. 1.
Great Britain. Lords Commissioners of Appeals in Prize Causes.Date: 1790?]- Books
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Before the Most Noble and Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners of Appeals in Prize Causes. Appeal from the Vice-Admiralty Court for the island of Jamaica. Antwerpse Welvaaren, Jan Jansen, master. Caleb Mumford, of the said island of Jamaica, merchant, the claimant of the said ship Antwerpse Welvaaren, her Tackle, apparel, and furniture, and of all and singular the goods, wares, and merchandizes therein laden, as the true, lawful, and sole property of Maximilian Emanuel Solvyns, son, of Antwerp, merchant, a subject of His Imperial Majesty the emperor of Germany, appellant, against Andrew M'Neil, commander of the private ship of war the Gayton, his officers and mariners, captors of the said ship and goods, - - - respondents. Appendix to the appellant's case.
Great Britain. Lords Commissioners of Appeals in Prize Causes.Date: 1786?]- Books
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Before the Most Noble and Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners of Appeals in Prize Causes. An appeal from New-York. De Vrouw Elizabeth, Jan Cornelis, master. Adrian Laernos, late mate of the said ship, and claimant of the ship and cargo, - - - appellant, against James Pigot, Esq. commander of His Majesty's ship of war the Lion; James Coates, Esq. commander of His Majesty's ship of war the Centurion, and Sir Jacob Wheate, bart. commander of His Majesty's ship of war the Cerberus, their respective officers and mariners, captors of the said ship and goods, - - - - respondents. Appendix to the respondents' case.
Great Britain. Lords Commissioners of Appeals in Prize Causes.Date: 1785?]- Books
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Before the Most Noble and Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners of Appeals in Prize Causes. Appeal from the Vice-Admiralty Court for the island of Jamaica. De Waesmunster, Andries Feigel, master. Elisha Tyler of the island of Jamaica, merchant, the claimant of the said ship Waesmunster, as the property of Nicholas Kemna of Waesmunster in Flanders, a subject of His Imperial Majesty the emperor of Germany also claimant of sndry goods, wares and merchandizes therein laden, as the property of the said Nicholas Kemna, Andries Feigel the master of the said ship, and others, imperial and neutral subjects, and Anthony Songa, of London, merchant, claimant of other parts of the cargo, appellant, against Charles Hotchkys, Esquire, commander of His Majest's ship of war the Hydra, his officers and mariner's, the captors of the said ship and goods, - - - captors and respondents. Appendix to the appellant's case.
Great Britain. Lords Commissioners of Appeals in Prize Causes.Date: 1785?]- Books
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Before the Most Noble and Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners of Appeals in Prize Causes. An appeal from the Vice Admiralty Court of New-York. De Vrouw Elizabeth, Jan Cornelis, master. Adrian Laernos, late mate of the said ship, and claimant of the ship and cargo, - - - appellant, against James Pigot, Esq. commander of His Majesty's ship of war the Lion; James Coates, Esq. commander of His Majesty's ship of war the Centurion, and Sir Jacob Wheate, bart. commander of His Majesty's ship of war the Cerberus, their respective officers and mariners, captors of the said ship and goods, - - - - respondents. Case on behalf of the respondents.
Great Britain. Lords Commissioners of Appeals in Prize Causes.Date: 1785?]- Books
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[Be]fore the Lords Commissioners of Appeals in Prize Causes. Appeal from the High Court of Admiralty of England. De Vrouw Catherina, Franz Janz Panck, master. The said Franz Janz Pank, the master and claimant of the said ship De Vrouw Catherina and of 360 lasts of salt, being part of the cargo, as the property of Messrs. Jacob and William Middlehoven of Zaandam in Holland, merchants, and others; all subjects of the states general of the United Provinces; and also claimant of the rest and residue of the cargo as the property of divers other persons mentioned in the manifest and bills of lading, subjects of the said states general, - - - - - - - - appellant. Against Thomas Stinger, commander of the private ship of war the free trade, his owners, officers, and mariners, the captors of the said ship and goods, - - - respondents. Appendix to the appellant's case.
Great Britain. Lords Commissioners of Appeals in Prize Causes.Date: 1786?]- Books
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Before the Most Noble and Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners of Appeals in Prize Causes. De Waesmunster, Andries Feigel, master. Appeal from the Vice-Admiralty Court of Jamaica. Elisha Tyler of Jamaica, merchant, the claimant of the said ship Waesmunster, her tackle, apparel, and furniture, on behalf, and as the true, lawful, and sole property of Nicholas Kemna, of Waesmunster in Flanders, a subject of His Imperial Majesty the emperor of Germany; and also claimant of all and singular the goods, wares, and merchandizes, laden therein on behalf and as the real, true, law and sole property of the said Nicholas Kemna, Andries Feigel the master of the said ship, and other imperial and neutral subjects, claimant and appellant, against Charles Hotchkys, Esq. commander of His Majesty's ship of war the Hydra, his officers and mariners, the captors of the said ship and goods, - - respondents. The appellant's case.
Great Britain. Lords Commissioners of Appeals in Prize Causes.Date: 1785?]