| RefNo | CB/1/1/84 |
| AltRefNo | BLA.B.11 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Letter from Sir Joseph Banks, Soho Square to Charles Blagden, Physician to the Army, Plymouth Dock |
| Date | 9 November 1782 |
| Description | Society meetings began on Thursday - comments on Herschel's paper dedicating his new planet [Uranus] to the king, Georgium Sidus- Herschel was thanked by the Astronomer [Royal] - discusses letter from De Lalande - discusses animals on the moon. Herschel's paper 'On the Diameter and Magnitude of the Georgium Sidus; with a Description of the dark and lucid Disk and Periphery Micrometers ' by William Herschel read 7 November 1782 |
| Extent | 1 sheet |
| Format | Manuscript |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| RelatedMaterial | Item 48, The Banks Letters, A Calendar of the manuscript correspondence of Sir Joseph Banks preserved in the British Museum... London, 1958.
Paper by William Herschel read 7 November 1782 published in 'Philosophical Transactions' 1783 Volume 73 part 1, pp 4-14 |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA8116 | Banks; Sir; Joseph (1744 - 1820); naturalist | 1744 - 1820 |