Search Results: Science from Sophie Dupre

giving admission to the Paris Royal Museum of Natural History, admission is available on Mondays and Saturdays from 11am to 2pm, and on Thursday from 2pm to 4pm made out for four persons, 4" x 2¾", no date, circa lightly mounted on card with a note that it was acquired from Sotheby's on 28th July 1885 from the collection of Mr F. Naylor

certifying, in his capacity as "professor at the School of Medicine, chief surgeon, assistant of the hospital of La Charité, first surgeon of his Majesty the Emperor of the French..." that "Germain La Rousserie from Neuvic, department of Corrèze, followed my classes since the month of frimaire year twelve, that he attended the visit,s and clinic of the aforesaid hospice during all this time... where he fulfilled his duties with accuracy, and a marked zeal, until the first of January, one thousand eight hundred and seven, at which time he left that hospice...", countersigned and attested by the Mayor of the 10th Arrondissement Urbain Firmin PIAULT (1757-1848) next to an Eagle stamp, "seen by us mayor of the 10th district of Paris for legalisation of the signature affixed above of Mr Boyer, Doctor in Surgery...", 1 side folio with blind stamped seal, Paris, 21st September Boyer was appointed by Napoleon as the Imperial family surgeon and accompanied the… Read More

(Sir James, 1st Baronet, 1804-1877, Founder of English Popular Education) saying that he "may remember Horace Brown in the Old Chollege of Chemistry days. I am giving a memorial lecture on him on Friday... in the hall of the Electrical Engineers. Should you be in town, perhaps you will favour me with your support. I know no one else surviving from that time. You, I suppose, have no special recollections of the period which you could give me to use in my account?...", 3 sides 8vo., The Athenaeum headed paper, 17th February

asking for information "which you may have to communicate to me on matters concerning the welfare of King's College in which I have always taken the greatest interest... any leisure I may have must be devoted to the examination of papers for an examination on Surgery to take place at the College of Surgeons...", 4 sides sm. 8vo., monogrammed paper, no place, 16th May He was instrumental in the apprehension of the gang of murderers and body snatchers called the London Burkers in 1831, named after the Edinburgh murderers Burke and Hare of three years earlier. In September 1862, Partridge was selected to travel to Italy to attend Giuseppe Garibaldi, who had been shot just above the right ankle during his march on Rome that summer. Unfortunately he failed to spot the bullet and if it had not been for the intervention of the French surgeon Auguste Nélaton he would have lost the leg.

sending "cordial thanks to the Governor of Bedales for their generous and much appreciated resolution. I hope some day to be able to begin my new duties...", 1 side 8vo., Edinburgh, 30th June The recipient is Sydney A. GIMSON (Sydney Ansell, 1860-1938, from 1888 President of the Leicester Secular Society). Seward was appointed lecturer in botany at Cambridge University in 1890, later becoming a tutor at Emmanuel, and still later succeeding Harry Marshall Ward as Professor of Botany, Cambridge University from 1906 to 1936. There, he became a founding member of the University of Cambridge Eugenics Society, eventually becoming its Chairman.

inviting "Sir James & Lady Emerson Tennent & Miss Tennent" to a "small family party" in London on the 18th "at ¼ p. 10", 1 side 8vo., Barbon Park, Kirkby Lonsdale, 11th April n.y., c. sides trimmed without loss

saying that it will suit them "to dine with you on Saturday. We shall make a previous call at our cousins, at Beckenham. It would make things very easy for us, if your carriage could call and take us up at their house, say about 5 o'clock... It is close by the old church...", 3 sides 8vo., 9 Stamford Road, Lond, 23rd June, no year Bain was first to invent and patent the electric clock. He invented the Telegraph Clock, which was a technology of synchronising many electric clocks placed anywhere in the world; they would all have the exact same time. He also invented and patented the technology of the facsimile machine for scanning images and transmitting them across telegraph lines hundreds of miles away. He installed the railway telegraph lines between Edinburgh and Glasgow for recording messages, to regulate the safe movement of trains, marking time, giving signals, and printing information at different locations. He invented a chemical telegraph technology of being able to transmit… Read More

promising to pay Stewart "as treasurer of the Courier Newspaper the sum of £243.0.8d a Balance as per account agreed on between that Paper and the New Times, and being the consideration for the separation of the two Papers...", 1 side 4to., Courier Office, 29th August 1928, Rennie replies to Meek on the same piece of paper, saying that "On the other side you have your letter which Mr Stewart returned me on handing him the money agreed to be paid by us all. This I trust will complete the remainder of the enormous drafts required from us. I know not how far our hope may be realised, but if Talent, Industry & Nerve can do any thing for us our chance is a good one. It is to be regretted however that the period of trial is so short. A Committee consisting of A.F. McIntosh, my brother Matthew & myself has been formed to investigate the mode of carrying on the Courier concern & to see what saving may be made without injury...", 1 sie 4to., Stamford Street, 15th November… Read More

with many planetary symbols, he is sorry that Katharine has had a fall, "The time was not favourable on the 22nd... If you find indications in the yearly horoscope of a fall of course we must not be surprised... I expect this fall has satisfied the aspect, and there will be no more", and asking what the fall was on to, returning "the Horoscope as to your friend's illness. You have made one or two mistakes", he goes into great detail over the planetary aspects, with his corrections "I see no sign of death... this looks like a serious illness and a recovery", with a P.S. added by his wife, the children's writer N.C. Culpeper-Bishop, who has heard from Katharine "but no mention of a fall", and asking them over "on Sunday, if fine", 2 sides 9" x 7", The Cottage, Rusthall Avenue, Bedford Park, W., 30th October slit at horizontal fold without loss but holding

accepting for dinner on 9th June (after the conferring of honorary degrees), with autograph envelope front, 1 side 8vo., 16 Grosvenor Square, W., 4th June

Introducing W.W.Airy" Airy completely re-equipped Greenwich observatory with instruments that he designed himself.

saying he hasn't "published any work in recent months, but I hasten to send you my most recent publications. Accept, Sir, the expression of my very distinguished feelings...", 1 side correspondence card, Lyon, 23rd November He was a member of the Lyon ambulance corps during the Franco-Prussian War, and in 1878 became a member of the surgical section of the Lyon faculty of medicine. Following the assassination of Marie François Sadi Carnot in Lyon on 24th June 1894, Drs. Poncet and Ollier attended to the wounded French president. Transcription Lyon 23 novembre 1894 Monsieur, Je n'ai pas publié d'ouvrage ces derniers mois mais je m'empresse de vous envoyer mes plus récentes publications. Agréez, Monsieur, l'expression de mes sentiments très distingués. Antonin Poncet Translation Lyon November, 23rd of 1894 Sir, I haven't published any work in recent months, but I hasten to send you my most recent publications. Accept, Sir,… Read More

thanking him for his letter, saying he had "felt sure there was some good cause of delay. The College has rendered a great service in its book on Nomenclature...", 1 side 8vo., together with original autograph envelope postmarked Newcastle, with penny red, 7th August

venturing to send you a copy of my first book, of which I have just had some advance copies sent me (proud moment for a budding author!)...", he continues that he does not expect her to read it "but only that you accept it as the only thing I have at present to offer in return for all your kindness to me at West Park - a tangible memento. Also, i discovered on reaching Liverpool that my fountain pen was missing. It is of no particular consequence as it is both old & cheap, but if you should happen to see it lying about, I should be much obliged if you could send it to me here. It is a 'Blackbird'..." with a postscript that he has also left his address book behind, 3 sides 8vo., 27 Westbourne Square, London, 16th September

regretting that he is "unable to accept their kind invitation to dine on the 13th inst...", 1 side 8vo., 165 Denmark Hill, Surrey headed paper, 1st December In 1856 Sir Henry patented an economical process by which molten pig-iron disturbed by a current of air is turned directly into steel. His paper on this process was read at a meeting of the British Association that year. In 1859 he established steel works at Sheffield manufacturing steel rails. He was one of the founders of the Iron and Steel Institute in 1868 and its president 1871-1873. The Bessemer process was introduced into the United States and developed by Alexander L. Holley, 1867-1870. He established Sheffield as a major industrial centre.

(Florence Horatia Nelson, 1848-1923, Writer, wife, 1876, of Thomas Suckling, 1844-1922, of Highwood Lodge near Romsey) profusely thanking her "for the very handsome volume you have so kindly sent me... I have but one fault to find with it, after, of course, most hasty glance at it, that it is much too short (?) for so very handsome and so large a book. I can but hope that the high patronage you have, and some good reviews, which I am sure there ought to be, will give it your due reward..." with two postscripts, the first asking for Circulars of it and the second saying that he has "just looked over it a very little - It is admirable - It ought to do you good - It will...", 3 sides 8vo., Nunburnholme Rectory, Heyton, York, 18th February

enclosing "a note from my friend Mr Haden who you will find very zealous in the good cause...", I side 8vo., 8 New Street, 3rd April In 1837 Robert Stephenson appointed him as one of the engineers on the London and Birmingham Railway, where he was responsible for Watford tunnel and the incline down from Camden Town to Euston. He later formed the company Braham, Fox & Co which was responsible for many important station roofs including Liverpool Tithebarn Street, (1849–50), Bradford Exchange (1850), Paddington and Birmingham New Street.

(born 1980, Estonian art historian, lecturer and translator) sending his best wishes for early success, 1 side postcard, no place, 20th September His work was key in the development of the theory of structuralism and structural anthropology.

saying that his "order and cheque are duly to hand, and I havehis moment sent the necessary instructions to the... Printers. You will, no doubt, receive the publications in a day or two...", Torquay, 21st November Pengelly's most significant contribution to science was his work on caves in Devon and their human occupation. He exchanged letters with Charles Darwin amongst others describing the results that he gathered. He was one of the first to contribute proof that the Biblical chronology of the earth calculated by Archbishop James Ussher was incorrect.

(1793-1850 Congregationalist Minister) saying that he is "directed by the Committee of the B & F Anti-Slavery Society to transmit to you the accompanying Resolutions as a reply to the communication of the Committee of the Congregational Union of England and Wales received from you... with a request that you will be pleased to lay them before that Committee...", on the headed paper of the "British & Foreign Anti-Slavery Society for the Abolition of Slavery & the Slave Trade Throughout the World" with a vignette of a slave wearing a loincloth with his hands chained and the slogan "Am I not a Man and a Brother", 1 side 4to., 27 New Bond Street, London, 8th December 1840 He held a number of voluntary roles including Secretary of the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society. The suburb of Cape Town called Harfield drew its name from Tredgold's middle name. The World Anti-Slavery Convention met for the first time at Exeter Hall in London, on 12–23 June… Read More