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Cambridge Philosophical Society: General Meeting minutes Volume 2, 1830-04-26 - 1851-02-24

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Reference Code: GBR/0279/CPS 3/1/2

Scope and Contents

16 May 1832: resolution concerning the building of a ‘new house for the Society’;
15 May 1833: impression of the Society’s seal ‘representing a figure of Sir Isaac Newton resembling the statue in the Chapel of Trinity College’;
16 November 1835: extracts of letters were read from Sir J Herschel and Charles Darwin, the latter containing ‘accounts of the geology of - - - the Andes and S. America’;
14 December 1835: further communications from Charles Darwin;
30 April 1844: special meeting concerning the British Association meeting to be held in Cambridge in the summer of 1845.
Regular contributors of papers include: James Cumming, William Whewell, Leonard Jenyns, John Henslow, Robert Willis, Adam Sedgwick, George Biddell Airy, George G Stokes, and George Paget.




Dates

  • Creation: 1830-04-26 - 1851-02-24

Extent

1 volume(s) : paper

Language of Materials

English

Originator(s)

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Finding aid date

2015-05-08 11:27:39+00:00

Repository Details

Part of the Cambridge Philosophical Society Repository

Contact:
CPS Archivist, Joan Bullock-Anderson
c/o Sedgwick Museum Archives, A G Brighton Building
Madingley Rise
Cambridge CB3 0UD