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Authorised form of namePrinsep; James (1799 - 1840)
Dates1799 - 1840
Date of birth1799
Place of deathLondon
Date of death22 April 1840
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election20/11/1828
RelationshipsNephew of James Peter Auriol (FRS 1808)
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB
Obituaries:
Proc Roy Soc 1840 No 45 pp 259-260
Virtual International Authority Filehttp://viaf.org/viaf/17970197
CodeNA6665
Archives associated with this Fellow
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PT/18/20Paper, 'Notes on the meteorological tables kept at Benares [Varanasi, India], during the years 1824, 5, 6' by James Prinsep[1828]
EC/1828/25Prinsep, James: certificate of election to the Royal Society
PT/18/19/3Plate, 'Diagram II' by unknown artist[1828]
PT/18/19/2Plate, 'Diagram I' by unknown artist[1828]
AP/13/24Unpublished paper, 'Eclipse of the sun observed at Benares' by James Prinsep[1828]
PT/18/19/1Manuscript, 'Abstract of a meteorological journal kept at Benares [Varanasi, India] during the years 1824, 1825, and 1826' by James Prinsep[1828]
PT/18/19Paper, 'Abstract of a meteorological journal kept at Benares [Varanasi, India] during the years 1824, 1825, and 1826' by James Prinsep[1828]
HS/14/71Letter, from James Prinsep to Sir John Herschel, dated at Calcutta1 November 1836
HS/14/68Letter, from James Prinsep to Sir John Herschel, dated at Calcutta10 January 1836
HS/14/67Letter, from James Prinsep to Sir John Herschel, dated at Calcutta1 May 1835
HS/14/66Letter, from James Prinsep to Sir John Herschel, dated at Calcutta13 December 1834
HS/14/74Letter, from James Prinsep to Sir John Herschel, dated at Calcutta2 November 1837
HS/14/69Letter, from James Prinsep to Sir John Herschel, dated at Calcutta20 January 1836
HS/14/75Letter, from James Prinsep to Sir John Herschel, dated at Calcutta13 January 1838
HS/14/72Letter, from James Prinsep to Sir John Herschel, dated at Calcutta8 February 1837
HS/19/257Calibration of the Calcutta [Kolkata] barometer, by James Prinsep1835
HS/14/70Letter, from James Prinsep to Sir John Herschel, dated at Calcutta19 June 1836
HS/14/73Letter, from James Prinsep to Sir John Herschel, dated at Calcutta7 October 1837
HS/25/4/4Copy letter, from Sir John Herschel to James Prinsep, dated at Feldhausen2 December 1834
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