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CB - Papers of Sir Charles Blagden
- 1 - Letters to Charles Blagden
  - 1 - Charles Blagden Letters Volume 1: A-B.158

RefNo	CB/1/1/152
AltRefNo	BLA.B.69
Level	Item
Title	Letter from Sir Joseph Banks, Soho Square to Charles Blagden
Date	21 September 1818
Description	Rejoices to learn that the operation for joining the coasts of the two countries [England and France in the trigonometrical survey] has been postponed so that there is no need to consult "the dull and heavy Council of the Ministry, to whom science its beauties and its impoertance are equally unknown". When Mudge meets with the Frenchmen can decide where to site their "Réverbères". Mudge tells him that Colonel Colby has been recalled from Scotland and will proceed to Dunkirk. Hopes to see Blagden in the spring. Application has been made on the part of the heirs of the Count de Choiseul Gouffier for certain pieces of Athenian sculpture delivered by Lord Elgin with the marbles purchased from him by Parliament but no decision can be made until Parliament sits again. Gives the history of these objects, which fell into English hands as a result of the capture of the Arab by Lord Nelson's fleet.
Extent	1 sheet
Format	Manuscript
AccessStatus	Open
RelatedMaterial	Item 334, 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

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