Extract from letter, from Sir John Herschel to Francis Baily, dated at [London] 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. 25 November 1826