RefNo | HS/13 |
Level | SubSeries |
Title | Correspondence of John Frederick William Herschel: volume 13 M miscellaneous-Plana |
Date | 1812-1869 |
Description | Letters from various correspondents sent to Sir John Herschel, with some drafts of his replies and original letters by Herschel recovered from selected correspondents after his death.
Prominent correspondents include: Gideon Mantell; William Hallowes Miller; Sir George Thomas Napier; James Nasmyth; John Henry Nelson; Hans Christian Oersted; William Olbers; Abraham Follett Osler; William Brooke O'Shaughnessy; Sir Richard Owen; Robert Treat Paine; William Edward Parry; William Parsons, Earle of Rosse; George Peacock; Sir William Hasledine Pepys; Hugh Percy, Duke of Northumberland; Giuseppe Piazzi; Gionvanni Antonio Plana. |
Extent | 1 volume; 440 letters |
Format | Manuscript |
PhysicalDescription | Documents previously tipped onto guards and bound in blue library buckram with volume information on the spine, in gilt. Disbound in 2023 and loose letters in folders. |
Arrangement | Roughly alphabetical by author; chronological within each correspondence group. |
Digital images | View item on Science in the Making |
AccessStatus | Open |
Fellows associated with this archive
Code | PersonName | Dates |
NA8238 | Herschel; Sir; John Frederick William (1792 - 1871); mathematician and astronomer | 1792 - 1871 |