RefNo | CB/1/1/136 |
AltRefNo | BLA.B.53 |
Level | Item |
Title | Letter from Sir Joseph Banks, Soho Square to Charles Blagden, Paris |
Date | 25 November 1814 |
Description | Reports on meetings of Royal Society - has retained Blagden's name in the Council - discusses printing press, kale seed, Philosophical Magazine, Kelly's candidature for Fellowship, encyclopedia - thanks him for the hundred bottles, gives other news of acquaintances - Dr Young thinks he has discovered the signification of the hieroglypics on the Rosetta Stone - discusses N S Wales, British Museum. |
Extent | 1 sheet |
Format | Manuscript |
AccessStatus | Open |
RelatedMaterial | Item 314, The Banks Letters, A Calendar of the manuscript correspondence of Sir Joseph Banks preserved in the British Museum... London, 1958. |
Fellows associated with this archive
Code | PersonName | Dates |
NA8116 | Banks; Sir; Joseph (1744 - 1820); naturalist | 1744 - 1820 |
NA7947 | Young; Thomas (1773 - 1829); physician, physicist and Egyptologist | 1773 - 1829 |