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The Royal Society: Science in the Making

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7 letters from Friedrich Eduard Beneke; 0 letters from John Frederick William Herschel

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

1842

Sir John Herschel publishes in the Philosophical Transactions

1842: Sir John Herschel publishes “On the action of the rays of the solar spectrum on vegetable colours, and on some new photographic processes”

Autograph letter signed by sender. Letter to accompany a complimentary copy of Friedrich Eduard Beneke's new book on logic.

5 June 1842 Sender: Friedrich Eduard Beneke Reference number: HS/4/59
1843

Autograph letter signed by sender. Thanks John Frederick William Herschel for sending Friedrich Eduard Beneke several of his works, including the translation of Schiller.

26 December 1843 Sender: Friedrich Eduard Beneke Reference number: HS/4/60
1844

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

1844

1845

Sir John Herschel serves as President of the British Association

1845

Autograph letter signed by sender. Letter to accompany a gift of part of Friedrich Eduard Beneke's latest work on psychology and knowledge, urging John Frederick William Herschel to encourage England to study psychology.

7 April 1845 Sender: Friedrich Eduard Beneke Reference number: HS/4/61

Autograph letter signed by sender. Letter to accompany Friedrich Eduard Beneke's complete work on psychology and knowledge.

17 July 1845 Sender: Friedrich Eduard Beneke Reference number: HS/4/62

Autograph letter signed by sender. Writes in thanks for John Frederick William Herschel's kind words on several occasions about Friedrich Eduard Beneke's ideas on psychology.

30 December 1845 Sender: Friedrich Eduard Beneke Reference number: HS/4/63
1846

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

1846

Sir John Herschel serves his second term as Foreign Secretary of the Royal Astronomical Society

1846: To 1847

1847

Sir John Herschel serves his second term as President of the Royal Astronomical Society

1847: Until 1849

Sir John Herschel receives the Copley Medal

1847: Sir John Herschel receives the Copley Medal of the Royal Society "For his work entitled Results of Astronomical Observations made during the years 1834, 1835, 1836, 1837 and 1838, at the Cape of Good Hope; being a completion of a telescopic survey of the whole surface of the visible heavens, commenced in 1825"

Sir John Herschel publishes a paper

1847: Sir John Herschel publishes Results of astronomical observations made during the years 1834, 5, 6, 7, 8, at the Cape of Good Hope; being a completion of a telescopic survey of the whole surface of the visible heavens, commenced in 1825.

1848

The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood is formed, by John Everett Millais, Dante Gabriel Rosetti and others

1848

Napoleon III is elected first President of France

20 December 1848

1849

Sir John Herschel publishes Outlines of Astronomy.

1849

1850

Sir John Herschel is appointed Master of the Mint

1850

Autograph letter signed by sender. Letter to accompany a gift of the first part of Friedrich Eduard Beneke's popular psychology work.

11 April 1850 Sender: Friedrich Eduard Beneke Reference number: HS/4/64

Autograph letter signed by sender. Letter to accompany the second part of Friedrich Eduard Beneke's popular psychology, together with more of Friedrich Eduard Beneke's constant urging of the need for psychology in England.

18 July 1850 Sender: Friedrich Eduard Beneke Reference number: HS/4/65