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Artificial collection of single item or small collection accessions. Mainly correspondence but includes other papers.

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Artificial collection of single item or small collection accessions. Mainly correspondence but includes other papers.

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Hopes for a meeting; his health moderate in past year

Scope and Contents He was in London to see how his son fared with competitors for Dr Bell's 'Central National School'; he is now there, at Bloomfield's expense; he declined financial help from Sir C. Brydges, but found expense in London crippling; he mentioned his wish to continue his children's education to his friend Park; hopes friends will support him in this; 'Forty of fifty pounds out of whatever may be left in Clements Lane in my name, would enable me to return to Bedfordshire with a tolerable grace,...

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He received 'the promised copy of my [stray?] production relating to [torn] [Ae]olian Harp'; he will reprint it; May will receive a new copy in exchange

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Artificial collection of single item or small collection accessions. Mainly correspondence but includes other papers.

Scope and Contents He found a valuable manuscript of the Syriac Pentateuch in New College Library, dated 1193, from the monastery where the 'Patriarch of the Indian Syrians' lives; it agrees with Dr Buchanan's Travancore manuscript, and proves the latter to date from before the time when Roman Catholics reached India; he was unable to borrow the manuscript, and doubts whether he will have collated enough of it in nin days 'to proceed with our text'; hopes to return to Cambridge in August; thanks to Mandell and...

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He cannot promise Syriac New Testament collations this year; many manuscripts are the British Museum; he will try to get some of the Ibn Khaldun for next meeting; 'I have the unfortunate propensity to undertake more than I can get through'; Mirza Abrahim is with him

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He received [?]'s testimonial and Gr?berg's account of Ibn Khaldun's work; he suspects Gr?berg has not seen the last part of the history of the Berbers, which Lee possesses; hopes to get the manuscript now at Mr Rich's, Red Lion Square

Scope and Contents No trace of a book in Cambridge; he does not know the Rabbinic work 'Seder Raddoroth'; since 'Jewish histories are generally not worth reading', he suggests Dr Sacks should tell the committee how it is superior to most Jewish histories, and more reliable, or else translate it at his own risk for the committee; he doubts whether 'Shebet Jehudah' would be 'acceptable to an enlightened public': committee probably could not justify translation and printing; Dr Sacks should send specimens of each...

Scope and Contents Hopes he received a packet containing Gesenius etc.; he is getting on well with Duncan's work, which needs 'great research and care', and will give him 'great experience'; he must insert a tract as appendix to the Dictionary, on the Hebrew and Greek article, and can insert Duncan's engraving of the plan of the Temple, 'and so secure to your purchasers, a Biblical apparatus to be found in no other Lexicon'; his intention in inserting article, is to give 'a far clearer insight into the...

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Accepting dinner invitation

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On a printed sheet, 'Hymn to be sung by the boys educated in the Charity School at Lancaster, on Sunday the 11th day of September, 1796: 'As in the ambient starry train, unequal radiance glows'

Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Artificial collection of single item or small collection accessions. Mainly correspondence but includes other papers.

Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Artificial collection of single item or small collection accessions. Mainly correspondence but includes other papers.

Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Artificial collection of single item or small collection accessions. Mainly correspondence but includes other papers.

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Johnson, Oriental assistant, will give Arabic instruction to her friend; they will receive Mrs Rich and Mr and Mrs Scott; Malthus admired Scott 'when I heard him preach in Mr Swine's chapel some time ago', but fears his opinions are not now so reasonable

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He cannot promise admission to East India College for Mackenzie's nephew, 13-year old Erskine; age of admission will soon be 17; new entrance examination; if a promise of a place can be made, it will affect Erskine's education in the meantime

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Artificial collection of single item or small collection accessions. Mainly correspondence but includes other papers.

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Professor McCoy's work on Palaeozoic fossils of Woodwardian Museum mentions graptolites at Lockerby; where may they be found?; they are found in profusion in Dumfriesshire; what is the nature of 'Lockerby slate'?

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He recommends Dixon's work on chalk fosils, and Owen's 'Fossil British mammals' for diluvial bones; he did not know that the address, Erith, was in Kent: he thought it was Erith in Cambridgeshire; he will be happy to show his Museum in Cambridge

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Papers on controversy between Sedgwick and Beverley have been taken by mistake to Trinity Library; Sedgwick did not wish it to be public; White obtained permission to keep the volume of papers in Trinity Library; it might be better to keep it in the Master's Lodge Library

Scope and Contents Thanks for 'Proceedings'; books required; he would like a description of rodents he presented to the Society; his manuscript notes only given habitat; a South American species; he knows it has been taken on the 'Beagle' voyage; Darwin sends his specimens to Cambridge; another specimen, a Peruvian cavy, presented to a 'Beagle' officer by an American sealing officer, Cutler; if it is new, he proposes 'Cutleri' as the name; another cavy from the east coast of Patagonia; he has distributed small...

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'Mr. Glaister appears to have discharged the objects of his mission yesterday' - about wind register; observatory undertakes no expense; results must all go to one place of publication; 'Daily News', as first organiser of scheme, seems entitled to first regard; three parties subscribed; Observatory is poorest - it will help in scientific part; 'Daily News' will publish; railway companies bear expense of apparatus and observations - they should bear cost of vanes

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'Sent by the post to a gentleman of each College, in the University, Jany. the 4th. 1750.' They have not been consulted about changes in University for 'time immemorial'; hope that the right may be restored to them in remodelling of laws and customs and statutes; ask that a delegation may attend next meeting