HG12/8/17

To Henry Hugh Higgins, from John Lubbock, High Elms, Hayes, Beckenham

n.d.

Thanks for invitation but cannot accept it. [D.N.B. LUBBOCK Sir Jn. Wm. third baronet (1803-1865) astronomer and mathematician; of Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge; partner in fath's. bank, 1825 F.R.S.1829; treasurer and vice president of Royal Society 1830-5; and 1838-47; Bakerian lecturer 1836; first vice chanceellor of London University 1837-42; suceeded to baronecy 1840; compared in detail tidal observations with theory; mainly directed his researches in physical astronomy towards the simplification of methods; foremost among English mathematicions in adopting Laplace's theory of probability]

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Higgins, Henry Hugh,
Lubbock, John William

family correspondence, Beckenham, science