| Description | Addressed to Young as Secretary of the Royal Society and Board of Longitude.
Announces to Young his election as Membre Associé Etranger at the Académie des sciences, in Volta's place. Arago was part of the Committee which made the recommendations, the other candidates were [Heinrich] Olbers; [Friedrich] Bessel; Robert Brown; [Johann] Blumenbach, [Samuel Thomas von] Soemering, Leopold de Buch, [John] Dalton and [Giovanni] Plana. Discusses the death of Fresnel the previous month, described as a man of "beautiful talent and beautiful character". |