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The Royal Society: Science in the Making

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Showing 10 letters from 1848–1868

8 letters from Joseph Baxendell; 2 letters from John Frederick William Herschel

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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

Autograph letter signed by sender. Regarding his observations of certain stars.

Reference number: HS/3/304
1849

Sir John Herschel publishes Outlines of Astronomy.

1849

1850

Sir John Herschel is appointed Master of the Mint

1850

1851

Sir John Herschel serves as juror of the Great Exhibition

1851

1855

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

1855

Sir John Herschel is elected Foreign Associate of the Institut de France

1855

Sir John Herschel resigns from his position as Master of the Mint

1855

1856

Autograph letter signed by sender. Recent observations of specified stars and their variations.

Reference number: HS/3/305
1858

Autograph letter signed by sender. Regarding a difference in their observations of a certain star.

Reference number: HS/3/306
1860

Sir John Herschel publishes in the Proceedings of the Royal Society

1860: Sir John Herschel publishes some “Remarks on colour-blindness" extracted from a referee report on Pole’s paper on the same subject.

1861

Death of Margaret Louisa Marshall, née Herschel, daughter of John Frederick William Herschel and Margaret Brodie Stewart

1861

William Morris established the decorative design firm of Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Company (later Morris & Company)

1861

Charles Dickens publishes Great Expectations as a three-volume book

1861

Sir John Herschel publishes Physical Geography as part of the Encyclopaedia Britannica.

1861

Abraham Lincoln begins his term as President of the United States

4 March 1861

Autograph letter signed by sender. Thanks for his book on meteorology. On the reliability of hygrometers.

Reference number: HS/3/307
1862

Autograph letter signed by sender. Thanks for his letter, which he will communicate to the Lit. and Phil. Soc. Regarding the views of William Hopkins. John Frederick William Herschel's theories regarding the effects of the sun spots are similar to a recent Frenchman's.

Reference number: HS/3/308
1865

Autograph letter signed by sender. Thanks for the paper which will be communicated to the next meeting of the Lit and Phil Soc. Regarding Mr. Greave's paper on the ventilation of mines.

Reference number: HS/3/309

Autograph letter signed by sender. Is sending the proofs of his recent communication for his correction.

Reference number: HS/3/310
1866

Sir John Herschel publishes his translation of Homer’s Iliad

1866

1867

Sir John Herschel publishes Familiar Lectures on Scientific Subjects

1867

Autograph letter signed by sender. Regarding gales of wind and their relation to violent changes in barometric pressure.

Reference number: HS/3/311

Copy of letter, copied as part of the correspondence project led by Colonel John Herschel FRS following the death of his father. Regarding gales of wind and their relation to violent changes in barometric pressure.

Reference number: HS/24/186
1868

Benjamin Disraeli becomes Prime Minister

1 February 1868

William Gladstone becomes Prime Minister

1 December 1868

Printed form letter, used by Sir John Frederick William Herschel as draft paper for a letter to the editor of Nature. Notice of next meeting of Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society.

Reference number: HS/19/161a