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Correspondence of John Frederick William Herschel: volume 5 B miscellaneous-C

Reference number: HS/5

Date: 1815-1871

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.

Primary correspondents include: John Ball; Christopher Henryk Diderick Buys Ballot; Joseph Banks; John Barlow; John Barrow; Antoine Cesar Becquerel; Sir Charles Bell; Jons Jacob Berzelius; Baron George Best; Charles Blagden; Johann Friedrich Blumenbach; Henry Samuel Boase; John Theophilus Boileau; George Boole; Alexis Bouvard; William Thomas Brande; Thomas Makdougall Brisbane; William Brockenden; Charles James Fox Banbury; Julia Margaret Cameron, James Challis, Alexander Ross Clarke, William Crookes, Georges Christian Leopold Dagobert, Baron du Cuvier.

Reference number
HS/5
Earliest possible date
1815-1871
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
385 letters
Format
Manuscript

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Correspondence of John Frederick William Herschel: volume 5 B miscellaneous-C, 1815-1871, HS/5, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/hs_5/correspondence-of-john-frederick-william-herschel-volume-5-b-miscellaneous-c, accessed on 21 January 2025

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    Dates: 1807-1875

    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.

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