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Jean André de Luc diploma

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Description: Diploma of Swiss geologist and meteorologist Jean André de Luc from l'Academie, 1768. On vellum, with seal. Signed by academy secretary Jean-Paul Grandjean de Fouchy.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1768, August 6.
Call number: mssHM 80397
Creator: Académie des sciences (France)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Burndy Library Collection, Gift of Dibner Family, November 2006.
Dimensions: 27 x 37 cm
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Marsilio Landriani letters to Jean-André de Luc

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Nine letters written by Marsilio Landriani to Swiss meteorologist, physicist, and geologist Jean-André de Luc (1727-1817), addressed as "Monsieur" and "Mon cher Monsieur" in their salutations. The letters, which are in French, relate to Landrianis work as a physicist, and address topics including electricity, meteorology, hygrometry, and various experiments. Those dated 1783, 1786, and 1787 were written from Milan, Italy, and those dated 1788 were written from London, England (two letters), or from an unspecified location (one letter). Six letters bear red wax seals, and two show traces of seals that were removed. Three letters include the name Landriani or M. Landriani handwritten in red ink at the top.

mssHM 82696-82704

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Léon Jules de Villemandy du Gazon diploma

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Diploma of a Bachelor of Belles Letters for Léon Jules de Villemandy du Gazon. Made official by Abel-François Villemain. With seal.

mssHM 80404

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Joseph Jérôme Le Français de Lalande letters to Jean André Deluc

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Four letters signed with autograph additions, in French, to Jean André Deluc, from Paris. The letters discuss several astronomical issues, and Lalande mentions William Herschel's works and refers to Deluc's controversey with H.B. Saussure.

mssHM 83117-83120

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Antoine Laurent de Jussieu certificate for Andre Jean Henri Lucas

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This document certifies that Andre Jean Henri Lucas has completed a course in mineralogy at the Le Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle in Paris. It is dated 11 Frimaire de l'an 6 and signed by Antoine Laurent de Jussieu. In French.

mssHM 81246

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Certificate enrolling M. Soleau as a member of l'Academie des sciences

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Membership certificate of M. Soleau into the Académie des sciences.

mssHM 80402

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André de Staercke Churchill collection

Manuscripts

The collection consists of letters and telegrams written by Winston Churchill to André de Staercke; the two men were friends as well as colleagues and most of the letters are personal thank you notes for gifts sent to the Churchills. According to the de Staercke family, Winston Churchill hoped de Staercke would marry his youngest daughter, Mary; she married Christopher Soames instead in 1947, but de Staercke was the godfather of their daughter (and Churchill's granddaughter) Emma Mary Soames. The collection also includes letters written to de Staercke by Lady Clementine Churchill, Winston Spencer Churchill, Connoisseur magazine, Pamela Harriman, Emma Mary Soames, and Mary Soames; as well as a few letters to Sir William Nicholson, one letter from J. C. Smuts to Jean Hersholt, a photograph of Emma Mary Soames, printed material and ephemera.

mssHM 74343-74385

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