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Document number: 7108
Date: 23 Jun 1845
Recipient: TALBOT William Henry Fox
Author: GASSIOT John Peter
Collection: British Library, London, Manuscripts - Fox Talbot Collection
Last updated: 1st September 2003

Mr Gassiot, requests the honor of Mr Talbot’s Company on Saturday Evening, 28th June, at 8 o’Clock to meet Professors Schœnbein, Dove, Kupffer, <1> and other distinguished Scientific Foreigners at present on a visit to this Country.

Clapham Common, <2>

23rd June, 1845.

Notes:

1. Christian Friederich Schönbein (1799–1868), Heinrich Wilhelm Dove (1803–1879) and Adolphe Theodore Kupffer (1799–1865); the last two were members of the Royal Society of London.

2. London