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Fine and extensive collection of letters and documents by scientists in many disciplines (astronomy, botany, medicine, zoology, geology, geography, palaeontology, ornithology, mathematics, botanical illustration, etc.), many to Davies Gilbert PRS (some about Bridgewater Treatises commissioned by him), two by Gilbert himself (to Davy on the RS presidency, and his daughter Kathy: “Tomorrow is my great day…I am to be elected President of the Royal Society…”), including letters etc., by G.B. Airy (outlining the method by which he proposes to weigh the mass of the moon, 1829), Alphonse de Candolle, Count Buffon (letter signed, referring to Mme Necker), Francis Baily, James Prescott Joule, Sir James South (to Gilbert, 1829: “I am once again in possession of the finest object Glass in existence…”), Lord Rosse (on his election as FRS, 1834), Clarke Abel (long letter to William Jackson Hooker, 1824), Jonathan Couch John Curtis John Brinkley (discussing the orbit of comets, 1808), J.E. Bode, J.C. Adams, Charles Piazzi Smyth Johann Franz Encke (on Galle’s measurement of Pallas, etc., 1837), J.F. Blumenbach, Sir William Snow Harris (to Gilbert, on receipt of the Copley Medal, 1835), P.M. Roget (to Gilbert, on the Bridgewater Treatises), Lord Kelvin, Charles Lyell, J.N. Lubbock, Charles Waterton Count Lacepede, William Prout, John Kidd (on his Bridgewater Treatise On the Adaptation of External Nature to the Physical Condition of Man, 1833), James Rennell (on Indian geography), T.H. Huxley, Baron Humboldt, W.J. Hooker, John Latham (referring to Faraday and Davy), Dionysius Lardner (with a prospectus), James Finley Weir Johnston (furnishing information on mines and engines, 1839), Edward Jesse Robert Jameson, Joseph Lalande, Ernest Haeckel, Justus Liebig (incomplete), Lord Raylegh, William Playfair (petition for a patent for an invention for manufacturing tableware, 1781 – for details of which see DNB), Sir John Leslie (“…My discovery of congelation was surely entitled to a Rumford medal…”), A.G. Werner, Spence Bate, Robert Chambers Jean Baptiste Biot, William Yarrell, H. Smith Woodward, Robert Woodhouse, Adam Sedgwick, P.L. Sclater, W.H. Wollaston, J.S. Henslow (mocking the concept of the spontaneous combustion of willows), Sir James Hall (1814), Olinthus Gregory, Hugh Miller, H.L. Meyer, Harriet Martineau and Mrs Marcet, Sir Joseph Williamson PRS (1674), William Whewell, George R. Waterhouse, John Tyndall, E.B. Tylor, Horace Twiss, R.J. Thornton, Silvanus P. Thomson, P.G. Tait, Sir Gabriel Stokes, Sir Robert Southwell PRS (1673), Mary Somerville Herbert Spencer J.E. Smith, General Edward Sabine, John Prestwich, John Playfair, William Pengelly, Flinders Petrie, Baron Oersted, A.M. Norman, Marianne North Alfred Newton, Roderick Murchison, W.H. Fitton, J. Muller (given to J.D. Enys by Samuel Butler , William Mudge, the 14th Earl Morton (advisor to Captain Cook), Augustus de Morgan, Thomas Moore Isaac Milner, Asa Gray, Lord Montgomery (Pembroke) PRS (1695/6), (Lord Brounker PRS (1664), members of the British Association for 1842 (sheet signed by sectional officers, including W.R. Hamilton, Murchison, Roget, Sabine, et al.), Louis Agassiz, Thomas Bell (to Faraday), Baron Bunsen, William Crookes James Geikie, R.W. Fox, Edward Forbes Thomas Edward (the Banff naturalist), H.E. Dresser, James D. Dana, E.S. Dana, Lord Armstrong, J.S. Bowerbank, Clarke Abel, and others, guards