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Add. MS a/202/60
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Letter from Henry Coddington
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- 9 May 1820 (Creation)
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St. Augustin - HC is 'now flourishing about in Paris'. He went to the Institut yesterday where his 'friend Biot' introduced him to, among others, Laplace, Delambre, Arago, Cuvier, Gay Lussac and Humboldt. It is a custom for the savants to have soirées one morning a week for their friends and strangers - Humboldt has offered to take HC to Laplace's tomorrow. He has gained entry into this elite circle thanks to a lady who talks Persian and brought letters of introduction to Humboldt, and through his own acquaintance with Thomas Edward Bowdich [famed for his travels into Africa] currently living in Paris.
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- Coddington, Henry (1798/9–1845) natural philosopher and Church of England clergyman (Subject)
- Biot, Jean-Baptiste (1774-1862) physicist (Subject)
- Laplace, Pierre-Simon (1749-1827) Marquis de Laplace (Subject)
- Arago, Dominique François Jean (1786-1853) physicist (Subject)
- Humboldt, Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von (1769-1859), Baron von Humboldt, German naturalist and explorer (Subject)
- Delambre, Jean Baptiste Joseph (1749-1822) mathematician, astronomer (Subject)
- Cuvier, Georges Jean Léopold Nicholas Frédéric (1769-1832), naturalist and zoologist (Subject)
- Lussac, Joseph Louis Gay- (1778-1850) chemist and physicist (Subject)
- Bowdich, Thomas Edward (1791–1824), writer and traveller in Africa (Subject)