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Herschel/Box 1/Letter 20
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- 1822 (Undated, so date is estimated.) (Creation)
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2p. paper
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Astronomer; son of Sir William Herschel; senior wrangler and first Smith's prizeman, 1813; subsequently fellow of St John's College, Cambridge; MA 1816; helped to found Analytical Society, Cambridge, 1813; secretary to Royal Society 1824-7; president of Astronomical Society, 1827-32; created baronet, 1838; president of British Association, 1845; master of the Mint, 1850-5. Major contribution to astronomy through the discovery and cataloguing of many double stars, work on 'light' and early work on photographical process. Buried in Westminster Abbey.
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Mentions death of Clark, the support Herschel can offer to Henslow in the forthcoming elections at Cambridge (1) and the settling of an account.
(1) Probably refers to the election of John Stevens Henslow to the chair of Mineralogy in 1822