The Appleby Institution — Est. 1706
Chartered for the purpose of observing what others overlook.
The Institution has maintained continuous operations since its founding in 1706. Its offices are distributed across the terrestrial, subsea, orbital, and polar environments. Its archive is not fully open to the public. Its purpose is a matter of the public record.
Operational Offices
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BATHYS — North Atlantic deployment
Office of Subsea Operations
Monitoring of deep-ocean anomalies, thermal event tracking, and subsea acoustic surveillance across six North Atlantic deployment zones.
Nominal
ORBITAL — Low Earth Orbit
Office of Orbital Monitoring
Satellite-based monitoring. Full operational details withheld from public documentation at the discretion of the Warden.
Nominal
MERIDIAN — Polar stations — both hemispheres
Office of Polar Operations
Operations at both poles. Elevated readings logged since March 2019. Details restricted pending ongoing review.
Elevated
BIOVIS — Distributed — locations withheld
Office of Biological Visibility
The Institution does not comment publicly on the scope of this office's operations.
Nominal
TERRESTRIAL — British Isles — 23 active sites
Office of Land Operations
Land-based survey, geological monitoring, and site maintenance including all Eden Valley alignment stations.
Nominal
NEXUS — Appleby-in-Westmorland
Office of Deep Archive Liaison
Management of correspondence, fellowship records, and the restricted Archive. The Warden's office reports to this division.
Nominal
From the Archive
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AR-1743-001 — 1743–1863
The Samarkand Correspondence — 1743 to 1863
644 letters between the Institution and an unnamed correspondent in Samarkand, spanning 120 years. The correspondent writes in three languages,…
Restricted
AR-1894-001 — 1894
Long Meg — The 1894 Rawlinson Survey
W. Rawlinson's 1894 survey of Long Meg and Her Daughters using the Appleby Measure. The field notes end mid-sentence at…
Open Access
AR-1899-003 — 1899
The Tesla Northern Correspondence — 1899
Correspondence between Nikola Tesla and the Institution, initiated by Tesla following his Colorado Springs experiments. The Institution's replies are held…
Open Access
AR-1969-002 — 1969 — ongoing
Lake Vostok — Sub-Ice Survey and Monitoring Record
The Institution began monitoring the Lake Vostok anomaly in 1969, predating the lake's formal discovery by approximately twenty years.
Open Access
Recent Dispatches
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The Archive Access Programme: An Update
Notes on the ongoing programme to make selected restricted Archive materials available to registered Fellows, and the principles governing what is released…
Read dispatch →On the Appleby Measure: A Note for New Fellows
An introductory note on the Appleby Measure, its history, and the significance of its correspondences at sites of ancient interest.
Read dispatch →The Institution Acknowledges the 2019 MERIDIAN Elevation
A public statement from the Warden's office regarding the Elevated operational status assigned to polar monitoring in March 2019.
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