WCP2820

Letter (WCP2820.2710)

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STARFIELD

CROWBOROUGH

SUSSEX

11 April 1903

Alfred Russel Wallace L.L.D. DCL FRS &c

Dear Sir

Since reading your article in the Fortnightly Review2 it has occurred to me that you have not examined the evidence of the evolution of stellar systems which I have obtained, during the past 18 years, by the application of photographic methods. I have therefore instructed my publishers to send you a copy of my [2]3 Photographs of Stars, Star-clusters & Nebulae Vol. 24 (the first vol[ume]. is out of print)[.] [1 word illeg. struck through] It is presented to you in the spirit of scientific enquiry by one Fellow of the Royal Society5 to another of the Fellows.

I am | Yours very truly| Isaac Roberts6 [signature]

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1
Page numbered 123 in pencil in top RH corner and "Answ[ere]d." written across top LH corner of page.
2
Wallace, A. R. (1903) Man's Place in the Universe: As Indicated by the New Astronomy Fortnightly Review 73: 395-411.
3
Page numbered 124 in pencil in top RH corner.
4
Roberts, I (1893) A Selection of Photographs of Stars, Star-clusters and Nebulae. London: The Universal Press.
5
A learned society for Science founded in November 1660, it was granted a Royal Charter by King Charles II.
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Roberts, Isaac (1829-1904). Welsh engineer and businessman, and an amateur astronomer, pioneering the field of astrophotography of nebulae. His photograph showing the structure of M31, the Great Nebula in Andromeda, (now known as the Andromeda Galaxy) taken in 1888 revealed a spiral structure unexpected at the time. Photographs revealing the true form of nebulae and clusters eventually helped to develop the theories about galaxies. He published his portfolio in a large format book (see Endnote 4) that is the first popular account of celestial photography of the deep sky.
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The page is blank. "Isaac Roberts" is written in pencil at the top, British Museum stamp at bottom of page.

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Transcribed by O'Dell, Sandra [2015-06-01] Transcription checked by Benny, Ruth [2015-06-01] Transcription checked by Sherwood, Danni [2020-08-10]

Please cite as “WCP2820,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 29 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP2820