| Date Note | BA meeting in Cambridge, Murchison as President of GSL |
| Description | Murchison correspondence: letter from Mary SOMERVILLE, Paris, 13 May [1833], to Charlotte Murchison. Re: was pleased to receive Charlotte Murchison's letter and a copy of Roderick Murchison's Presidential Address; congratulates Murchison on his contributions to the flourishing Geological Society and wishes his pursuits had led him to Paris rather than Wales; Somerville's husband is determined to stay on for another three months meaning that she will miss the BA meeting at Cambridge, but some of the French scientists plan to go including M de Pontécoulant [?Philippe Gustave Doulcet, Comte de Pontécoulant (1795–1874)]; complains that the unsettled nature of public affairs has interfered with the cultivation of science; has met many learned men in France but unfortunately her contact has been limited because they don't go into society as much as their English counterparts, her daughters preferring balls to scientific meetings; is currently busy printing a little popular work; has heard that Charles Lyell has given a double course of lectures [?at King's College London and the Royal Institution]. |