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The Royal Society: Science in the Making

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3 letters from Nathaniel [Jr.] Bowditch; 0 letters from John Frederick William Herschel

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Sir John Herschel returns from South Africa

1838: A banquet in presence of Queen Victoria is given to celebrate his return to Britain and made a Baronet.

Autograph letter signed by sender. Sending him an engraving, and the Rules of the Bowditch Library. Would like copies of John Frederick William Herschel's works for this library.

Reference number: HS/4/201
1839

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

1839: to 1841

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

1839

William Henry Fox Talbot presents his paper-based photographic process at the Royal Society

1839

Autograph letter signed by sender. Letter and parcel of papers has reached them safely for which they thank him. Third volume of Mecanique celeste will be sent later together with the fourth volume.

Reference number: HS/4/202

Autograph letter signed by sender. Have obtained an act of incorporation for their library. Their father did not finish his translation of the fifth volume of the Mecanique celeste.

Reference number: HS/4/203