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0 letters from Joseph Banks; 4 letters from Caroline Lucretia Herschel

Joseph Banks

Naturalist

Born: 13 February 1743

Died: 19 June 1820

Elected to the Royal Society Fellowship: 01/05/1766

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Caroline Lucretia Herschel

German astronomer

Born: 1750

Died: 1848

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Joseph Banks

Caroline Lucretia Herschel

Subject: Astronomy Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Observations on a comet. In a letter from William Herschel, LL. D F. R. S. to Sir Joseph Banks, Bart. P. R. S' Read 2 April 1789

Reference number: L&P/9/123

1792

Subject: Astronomy Read 23 February 1792

Reference number: L&P/10/12

1794

Chemist Elizabeth Fulhame publishes her An Essay on Combustion : With a View to a New Art of Dying and Painting

1794

1795

Subject: Astronomy Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Account of the discovery of a new comet. By Miss Caroline Herschel. In a letter to Sir Joseph Banks, Bart. K. B. P. R. S' Read 12 November 1795

Reference number: L&P/10/134

Contains figure. Subject: Astronomy Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Account of the discovery of a new comet. By Miss Caroline Herschel. In a letter to Sir Joseph Banks, Bart. K. B. P. R. S' Read 12 November 1795

Reference number: L&P/10/135