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The Royal Society: Science in the Making

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John Frederick William Herschel and Margaret Brodie Stewart are married in London

3 March 1829

Autograph letter signed by sender. Sending the first volume of his translation of P. S. Laplace's Mecanique celeste.

Reference number: HS/4/199
1830

John Frederick William Herschel is elected Foreign correspondent of the Académie des sciences

1830

Birth of Caroline Emilia Mary Herschel, daughter of John Frederick William Herschel and Margaret Brodie Stewart

31 March 1830

John Frederick William Herschel is nominated for the presidency of the Royal Society, loses by 8 votes to the Duke of Sussex

30 November 1830

1831

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

1832

Autograph letter signed by sender. Has received copies of his papers that he communicated to the Royal Society [of London] for which he thanks him. John Frederick William Herschel's study on Natural Philosophy has been reprinted in the States. Has forwarded the second volume of Mecanique celeste, one for him and one for the Royal Astronomical Society

Reference number: HS/4/200