Correspondence of Sir John William Lubbock The correspondence of Sir John William Lubbock (1803-1865), astronomer, Treasurer of the Royal Society 1830-1835 and 1838-1845, and Vice-President 1830-1835, 1836-1837 and 1838-1846. The bound volumes of letters are in a single alphabetical sequence and provide information on a wide range of Lubbock's contemporaries, not exclusively in the field of science. The largest collections of scientific letters are from George Biddell Airy (113 letters) John George Children (128 letters) Joshua Alwyn Compton, 2nd Marquis of Northampton (98 letters) GPD de Pontecoulant (67 letters) and William Whewell (87 letters). There are smaller but no less important groups of letters from Charles Babbage, Francis Baily, Francis Beaufort, Charles Darwin, John Couch Adams, John Frederick William Herschel, Baden Powell and William Henry Fox Talbot.