Letter, from Roderick Impey Murchison to Sir John Herschel, dated at Petersfield

Reference number: HS/12/391

Date: 3 June 1837

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Autograph letter signed by sender. John Frederick William Herschel's letter has appeared in print in Charles Babbage's Bridgewater Treatise. Comments on the books of Babbage and William Whewell. C. R. Darwin has read his paper on Coral Reefs. Roderick Impey Murchison is to be General Secretary of the next B.A.A.S. meeting. [William?] Ayrton was elected F.R.S.

Reference number: HS/12/391
Earliest possible date: 3 June 1837
Page extent: 4 pages
Format: Manuscript
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Roderick Impey Murchison, Letter, from Roderick Impey Murchison to Sir John Herschel, dated at Petersfield, 3 June 1837, HS/12/391, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/hs_12_391/letter-from-roderick-impey-murchison-to-sir-john-herschel-dated-at-petersfield, accessed on 13 September 2026

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Correspondence of Sir John Frederick William Herschel
1812-1870 Creator: John Frederick William Herschel Reference number: HS
Correspondence of John Frederick William Herschel: volume 12 Macann-Murray
1825-1870 Reference number: HS/12

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Dates: 1807 - 1875

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