An Appeal: Free M&D Resource Disappearing

[Dave Monroe]

On 11/15/07, Bryan Snyder <wilsonistrey at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm more than willing and have more than enough web server space (over 800GB
> to spare actually) to host these even if in the most basic directory view or
> accessible via FTP.
>
> I just don't have time to download everything but I can throw up a directory
> and provide FTP access if someone else is willing to organize PDF
> downloading, naming and putting them up on my site.

First off, a few I'll have to hunt down URLs for ...

Maskelyne, Nevil.  "Observations on a Clock of Mr. John Shelton,
   Made at St. Helena."  Philosophical Transactions of the Royal
   Society  52 (2 ), Art. 66 (1762)

Mason, Charles.  "Observations for Proving the Going of Mr. Ellicott's
   Clock at St. Helena."  Phil. Trans.  52 (2), Art. 86 (1762)

Short, James.  "An Account of Mr. Mason's Paper, Concerning the
   Going of Mr. Ellicott's Clock at St. Helena."  Phil. Trans. 52 (2),
   Art. 87 (1762)

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... but I now realize, once I did find these online, I'd been posting
not from the Royal Society site, but from the Internet Library of
Early Journals (ILEJ) ...

http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/ilej/

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N.B.--some of these links might not work if you click on them (some
didn't from the P-List archive, at any rate), but will if you cut 'n'
paste 'em into yr browser ...

"Introduction to the following Obfervations, made by
Meffieurs Charles Mafon and Jeremiah Dixon, for
determining the Length of a Degree of Latitude, in the
Provinces of Maryland and Pennfylvania in North
America; by the Reverend Nevil Maskelyne, B.D. F.R.S.
Aftronomer Royal," Philosophical Transactions of the
Royal Society, Vol. LVIII, No. XLII, pp. 270-3, Read
Nov. 24, 1768

http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/cgi-bin/ilej/image1.pl?item=page&seq=1&size=1&id=pt.1768.x.x.58.x.270

"Obfervations for determining the Length of a Degree
of Latitude in the Provinces of Maryland and
Pennfylvania, in North America, by Meffieurs Charles
Mason and Jeremiah Dixon," Philosophical Transactions
of the Royal Society, Vol. LVIII, No. XLII, pp.
274-328, Read Nov. 24, 1768 ...

http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/cgi-bin/ilej/image1.pl?item=page&seq=8&size=1&id=pt.1768.x.x.58.x.274

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Maskelyne, Nevil.  "A Proposal for Measuring the
   Attraction of some Hill in this Kingdom by
   Astronomical Observation."  Phil. Trans. of the
   Royal Soc., Vol. LXV (Dec. 1775): 495-99

http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/cgi-bin/ilej/image1.pl?item=page&seq=7&size=1&id=pt.1775.x.x.65.x.495

Maskelyne, Nevil.  "An Account of Observations made
   on the Mountain Schehallien for finding its
   Attraction."  Phil. Trans. of the Royal Soc.,
   Vol. LXV (Dec. 1775): 500-42.

http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/cgi-bin/ilej/image1.pl?item=page&seq=7&size=1&id=pt.1775.x.x.65.x.500

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"Astronomical Observations made at Cavan, near Strabane, in the County of
Donegal, Ireland, by Appointment of the Royal Society, by Mr. Charles
Mason."  (Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, Vol. 60, Dec.
1770, Pp. 454-96).

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By the way, do note that, if you have access to the Scholarly Journal
Archive (JSTOR) ...

http://www.jstor.org/

The Phil. Trans. from  Vol. 1 (1665) to the various current series ca.
1997 is at yr fingertips ...

http://www.jstor.org/journals/03702316.html

And here's "our" (M&D's) period ...

http://www.jstor.org/journals/02607085.html

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Thanks again John Bailey ...

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.. and DaveMarc ...

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... for having brought these to our attention along the way ...