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The Royal Society: Science in the Making

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Showing 4 letters from 1828–1831

1 letter from Eilhard Mitscherlich; 3 letters from John Frederick William Herschel

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Copy of a letter, incomplete. E. Mitscherlich has just missed being awarded a Royal Medal; it was given to W. H. Wollaston. Thinks it advisable for E. Mitscherlich to draw up a brief resume of his own scientific discoveries.

29 December 1828 Sender: John Frederick William Herschel , Sir; John Frederick William Herschel Reference number: HS/13/43

Copy of a letter, incomplete. EM has just missed being awarded a Royal Medal; it was given to W. H. Wollaston. Thinks it advisable for EM to draw up a brief resume of his own scientific discoveries.

29 December 1828 Sender: John Frederick William Herschel , Sir; John Frederick William Herschel Reference number: HS/21/33
1829

John Frederick William Herschel and Margaret Brodie Stewart are married in London

3 March 1829

1830

John Frederick William Herschel is elected Foreign correspondent of the Académie des sciences

1830

Birth of Caroline Emilia Mary Herschel, daughter of John Frederick William Herschel and Margaret Brodie Stewart

31 March 1830

John Frederick William Herschel is nominated for the presidency of the Royal Society, loses by 8 votes to the Duke of Sussex

30 November 1830

Autograph letter signed by sender. Has received the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society Also comments on several chemical matters, including isomorphism and crystallization.

16 May 1830 Sender: Eilhard Mitscherlich Reference number: HS/13/44
1831

Mary Somerville publishes Mechanism of the Heavens

1831

Sir John Herschel is created Knight of the Royal Hanoverian Guelphic Order

1831

Sir John Herschel publishes Preliminary Discourse on the Study of Natural Philosophy as part of Dionysius Lardner’s Cabinet Cyclopaedia.

1831

Birth of Isabella Herschel, daughter of John Frederick William Herschel and Margaret Brodie Stewart

5 June 1831

Copy of letter, copied as part of the correspondence project led by Colonel John Herschel FRS following the death of his father. Of isomorphic crystals and their varying behavior in response to heat, and of double stars.

2 September 1831 Sender: John Frederick William Herschel , Sir; John Frederick William Herschel Reference number: HS/25/2/16