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Autograph letter signed, 'John Tyndall', 2 April 1880, to R.H. Blades, noting that his 'approaching lectures on light are not intended for publication. My American lectures on light or my Notes on Light - published by Messrs Longman, might perhaps suit your purposes', Royal Institution of Great Britain embossed crest at head, 2 pp., 8vo, together with Hooker (William Jackson 1785-1865), autograph letter signed, 'W.J. Hooker', Royal [Botanic] Gardens, Kew, 4 April 1850, to (?)Henry Curtis, 'Lady Hooker desires me to send you her best thanks for the richly got up Nobility Edition of your Rose Book. We have been too busy with other matters in carrying out improvements and alterations in the Royal Gardens to form the indigenous Rose Garden. That must be accomplished another year. Neither have we received the Scarlet Rose from my son, Dr [Joseph Dalton] Hooker. His researches were much interrupted by his being made prisoner by the Rajah of Sikkim and it is only recently that he has been set at liberty', 2 pp. on black-edged mourning paper, 8vo, plus Murchison (Roderick Impey, 1792-1871), autograph letter signed, 5 May 1859, to Alexander Clark, 'Recollecting gratefully the hospitable reception given to myself and Professor Sedgwick 32 years ago by your excellent father I am induced to ask if it is possible for you to give my [?] Professor Ramsay and myself beds for a night or two on or about the 12 or 13th' in order to study the rocks of the North Highlands and around his house at Eriboll and Loch Hope, giving further details of his plans, Geological Survey Office embossed crest and address at head, 3 pages, a little spotting and browning, tipped on to an old album leaf with loss of additional note to page 4, 8vo, plus five further autograph letters signed from scientists including Richard Owen (1804-1892), John Hutton Balfour (1808-1884), William George Armstrong (1810-1900), John William Dawson (1820-1899) and Frederick Augustus Abel (1827-1902), mostly one or two pages, 8vo (8)