Extract from letter, from Sir John Herschel to Francis Baily, dated at [London]
Reference number: HS/27/8
Date: 25 November 1826
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Extract from letter in Herschel's hand. One side crossed out.
On 23 Nov. in the evening, at what John Frederick William Herschel calls an irregular meeting of the Royal Society [of London], J. G. Children was elected Secretary, to serve with John Frederick William Herschel, who had been secretary for some years. John Frederick William Herschel urges that the Royal Society [of London] and its members must now rise beyond this shabbiness and move ahead.
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- 25 November 1826
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John Frederick William Herschel, Extract from letter, from Sir John Herschel to Francis Baily, dated at [London], 25 November 1826, HS/27/8, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/hs_27_8/extract-from-letter-from-sir-john-herschel-to-francis-baily-dated-at-london, accessed on 11 September 2026
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