Correspondence of John Frederick William Herschel: volume 18 Wackerbarth-Zucchini
Reference number: HS/18
Date: 1815-1870
Description
Letters from various correspondents sent to Sir John Herschel, with some drafts of his replies and original letters by Herschel recovered from selected correspondents after his death.
Prominent correspondents include: James Thomas Walker; Robert Walker; Henry Warburton; George Waterhouse; Sir William Watson; Sir Charles Wheatstone; William Whewell; William Hyde Wollaston; John Wrottesley, Lord Wrottesley; Samuel Young; Thomas Young.
- Reference number
- HS/18
- Earliest possible date
- 1815-1870
- Physical description
- Documents previously tipped onto guards and bound in blue library buckram with volume information on the spine, in gilt. Disbound in 2023 and loose letters in folders.
- Page extent
- 1 volume; 444 letters
- Format
- Manuscript
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Correspondence of John Frederick William Herschel: volume 18 Wackerbarth-Zucchini, 1815-1870, HS/18, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/hs_18/correspondence-of-john-frederick-william-herschel-volume-18-wackerbarth-zucchini, accessed on 14 May 2025
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Hierarchy
This volume contains 450 manuscripts:
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Letter, from Francis Diedrich Wackerbarth to Sir John Herschel, dated at Uppsala
6 March 1866 Creator: Athanasius Francis Diedrich Wackerbarth Reference number: HS/18/1 -
Letter, from Francis Diedrich Wackerbarth to Sir John Herschel, dated at Uppsala
2 May 1866 Creator: Athanasius Francis Diedrich Wackerbarth Reference number: HS/18/2 -
Letter, from Francis Diedrich Wackerbarth to Sir John Herschel, dated at [Uppsala]
May 1866 Creator: Athanasius Francis Diedrich Wackerbarth Reference number: HS/18/3 -
Letter, from Thomas Francis Wade to Sir John Herschel, dated at 58 Upper Seymour St., Portman Square
23 March 1864 Creator: Thomas Francis Wade Reference number: HS/18/4
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Correspondence of Sir John Frederick William Herschel
1812-1870 Creator: Sir; John Frederick William Herschel Reference number: HS
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This collection of nearly 10,900 letters, drafts, copies and notes is the largest repository of scientific correspondence from and to Sir John Herschel, leading figure of Victorian science.
Dates: 1807 - 1875
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