£30,000
By BAKER, Captain [William Erskine]; Lieutenant [Richard] STRACHEY; Lieutenant HODGSON; Brigadier Edward SMITH; Lieutenant Colonel W[illiam] GARDEN, 1846 and 1847
£500
By GARDNER, W[illiam], YEAKELL, T[homas] and Thomas GREAM, 1799.
Jarichs’ Solution to the Longitude Problem
“Nothing was more important for [ancient] Geography than to know the size of the Earth, and nothing seemed more difficult to undertake” (Cassini) 

