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Intimation of Joseph Black's nomination as a foreign member of l'Academie Royale des Sciences, with a letter from Jean Antoine Nicolas de Caritat, Marquis de Condorcet to Joseph Black, undated and draft letter from Joseph Black to Jean Antoine Nicolas de Caritat, undated in reply. Also included is a printed document, "Reglement donne par le roi a l'Academie Royale des Sciences", dated 23 April 1785 and other papers.

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Letter from l'Académie Royale des Sciences to Joseph Black, dated May 1789. Also contains, enclosed, Joseph Black's draft answer to Nicolas de Condorcet, Secrétaire perpétuel of the Académie, dated July 1789.

Scope and Contents This notebook contains Charles Lyell’s notes from December 3, 1845 to December 12, 1845 upon leaving Boston and traveling to Philadelphia, with visits in New Haven, Connecticut and New York City, and further enroute to Washington, D.C. The notes are comprised of discussions about politics and religion, supplemented by commentary about social life, in New England and the United States more broadly, plus field notes, observations, and sketches concerned with geology and natural history,...