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The Royal Society: Science in the Making

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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

Autograph letter signed by sender. Regrets exceedingly that John Frederick William Herschel should think he was referring to him in his lecture. Regrets his work on Sound has been dragged into the controversy.

Reference number: HS/6/470

Contemporary copy in sender's hand, signed by sender. Asks that in John Henry Dallmeyer's lectures at King's College, London, he remove an unfair and incorrect reference to John Frederick William Herschel.

Reference number: HS/25/2/29

Contemporary copy in sender's hand, signed by sender. Thanks John Henry Dallmeyer for his letter [see John Henry Dallmeyer's 1831-11-26].

Reference number: HS/25/2/31