Item 154 - Letter from Julius Charles Hare

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S. A. Street - WW should have little difficulty in gaining the Professorship in Mineralogy at Cambridge: 'Were there any chance that this would confine you exclusively to minerals, I should be sorry for its having come into your head: though no doubt you will be able to find excellent 'sermons in stones'. But as of course nothing will induce you to shut yourself up even in a diamond cage, I rejoice heartily in the prospect of having their German science so well got up for our market, in a more practical and substantial form, and of having much to send them back in return'. The Johnians will be very proud of their [academic prize] medals. Taylor asked JCH whether an English translation of Simeon D. Poisson would be a saleable work in Cambridge: 'A certain Thomas Atkinson had proposed it to him. I answered, I believed not, but knew nothing about the matter. If you think it would be a desirable work, send me word, and I will desire him to undertake it'.