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The Royal Society: Science in the Making

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6 letters from Hubert Airy; 0 letters from John Frederick William Herschel

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Benjamin Disraeli becomes Prime Minister

1 February 1868

William Gladstone becomes Prime Minister

1 December 1868

Autograph letter signed by sender. Sends article on temporary color-blindness. G. B. Airy's book on sound [On Sound and Atmospheric Vibrations] is finished.

Reference number: HS/19/306

Autograph letter signed by sender. Observations on various forms of [hemianopsia], which afflicts Hubert Airy, his father [G. B. Airy], and John Frederick William Herschel. Detailed description of recent attack. Seven sketches with captions.

Reference number: HS/19/307

Autograph letter signed by sender. John Frederick William Herschel's approval encourages Hubert Airy to publish account [of hemianopsia]. John Frederick William Herschel may keep Hubert Airy's drawings. Notes on attack suffered by John Frederick William Herschel.

Reference number: HS/19/308

Autograph letter signed by sender, with annotations by recipient. Writing about [hemianopsia] for doctor's thesis at Cambridge. Asks permission to quote report of John Frederick William Herschel's attack [see John Frederick William Herschel's 1868-5-4].

Reference number: HS/19/309

Autograph letter signed by sender. Received John Frederick William Herschel's permission to quote John Frederick William Herschel [in Hubert Airy's thesis on hemianopsia] and describe John Frederick William Herschel's latest attack, including 'patches of coloured checquer work.'

Reference number: HS/19/310
1869

Jules Verne serializes Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea

1869: (Vingt Mille Lieues sous les Mers)

1870

Autograph letter signed by sender. Describes difficulties in producing glass pen and attaching it to pendulum to produce precise curves for aligning equatorial [telescope mount]. Sent artistic sample to John Frederick William Herschel's wife.

Reference number: HS/19/311