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The museum of science & art / edited by Dionysius Lardner.

Cabinet cyclopaedia.

Cabinet cyclopaedia. Biography

Eminent literary and scientific men of Italy, Spain, and Portugal / [Anon].

xxiv, 314 pages, 30 unnumbered pages : add. engr. t.page, tables, diagrams ; (8vo)

A treatise on geometry, and its application in the arts / By the Rev. Dionysius Lardner.

Remarks on the Cabinet Cyclopaedia / [edited by D. Lardner] and the geological globe [invented by Sir J. Byerley], relative to the polar motion.

15 autographed letters by Dionysus Lardner. Correspondents include Sir Francis Freeling (1764-1836), postal reformer (no.1); Thomas Beaumont esq (1792-1848), politian (no 8.); James Henry Leigh Hunt (1784-1859), essayist (no. 11). 
 Some material undated.

Lardner, Dionysius (1793-1859), scientific writer

Letters by Lardner

Letters to Lardner from various correspondents and miscellaneous papers, mainly relating to his chair of natural philosophy at London University, and to the publication of the Cabinet Cyclopaedia, 1827-1829.
Correspondents include John Brinkley, Bishop of Cloyne and astronomer, John Fleming, naturalist, Leonard Horner, Warden of the University, John Taylor, publisher, and contributors to the Cabinet Cyclopaedia.
The detailed listing of correspondents is as follows:
1.	John Brinkley Bishop of Cloyne, Observatory, 16 April 1837, to [Dionysius Lardner], 2 p. MS.
2.	Edward Troughton: see no. 9, Michael Donovan.
3.	Thomas Romney Robinson, Armagh, 24 April 1837, to Dionysius Lardner, 1 p. Ms. Testimonial.
4.	Mrs Pond, Royal Observatory, 30 April n.y. [1827], to Dionysius Lardner, 3p. Ms. Testimonial by John Pond, Astronomer Royal.
5.	Note of acceptance of the Chair of Natural Philosophy and Astronomy at London University, deed of settlement, 11 February 1826. Fair copy by Dionysius Lardner, n.d. [1827], 1p.Ms.
6.	George Darley, Eaton Square, n.d. [endorsed 'March 1828'], to Dionysius Lardner, 4p. MS.
7.	John Taylor, no place, n.d. [endorsed 'March 1828'], to Dionysius Lardner, 4p. MS

8.	John Taylor, no place, n.d. [endorsed 'May 1828', to Dionysius Lardner, 1p,MS.
9.	Michael Donovan, Dublin, 6 July 1828, to Dionysius Lardner, 7p. Ms.pasted down with another letter, Edward Troughton, London, 23 April 1827, to Dionysius Lardner, 1p. Ms.
10.	Leonard Horner, Leatherhead, 25 July 1828, to [Dionysius Lardner], 2p Ms.
11.	William Desborough Cooley, 28 July 1828, to Dionysius Lardner, 1p. Ms.
12.	Leonard Horner, University Chambers, 2 September 1828, to Dionysius Lardner, 1p, MS.
13.	John Brinkley, Bishop of Cloyne, 15 September 1828, to Dionysius Lardner, 2p.Ms.
14.	Charles Phillips, 49 Chancery Lane, 27 September 1828, to [Dionysius Lardner], 1p. Ms.
15.	Leonard Horner, no place, 5 October n.y. [endorsed '1828'] to [Dionysius Lardner], 2p. Ms.
16.	Dionysius Lardner, University of London, 6 November 1828, to Leonard Horner, 1p. Ms. draft
17.	Leonard Horner, University of London, 12 November 1828, to Dionysius Lardner, 1p. Ms.
18.	Thomas Phillips, George Street, 16 November n.y. [w.m. 1827:1828?], to Dionysius Lardner, 3p. Ms.
19.	Michael Donovan, 12 D'Olier Street, 16 November n.y. [1828], to Dionysius Lardner, 3p. Ms.
20.	Charles Scott, Boston, 18 November 1828, to Dionysius Lardner, 3p. Ms.
21.	Robert Burrowes, Riverland, Omagh, 22 November 1828, to Dionysius Lardner, 4 p. Ms.
22.	Leonard Horner, University, 26 November 1828, to Dionysius Lardner, 2p. Ms.
23.	Anthony Todd Thomson, 3 Hinde Street, 28 November 1828, to Dionysius Lardner, 3p. Ms. Pasted down with another letter, James Mackintosh, Clapham Common, n.d. [endorsed 'December 1828', to [Dionysius Lardner], 1p. Ms.
24.	Thomas Phillips, George Street, 1 December 1828, to Dionysius Lardner, 3p, Ms.
25.	Thomas Phillips, George Street, 3 December 1828, to Dionysius Lardner, 3p. Ms.
26,	Michael Donovan, 12 D'Olier Street, 5 December n.y. [p.m. 1828], to Dionysius Lardner, 3p. Ms.
27.	John Fleming, Manse of Flisk, 7 December 1828, to [Dionysius Lardner], 2p. Ms.
28.	Walter Berwick, 9 Lower Fitzwilliam Street, 14 December 1828, to Dionysius Lardner, 4p. Ms.
29.	Henry Grattan, Brighton, 19 December 1828, to [Dionysius Lardner], 4p, Ms,
30.	John Fleming, Manse of Flisk, by Cupur, Fife, 19 December 1828, to [Dionysius Lardner], 2p. Ms.
31.	John Brinkley, Bishop of Cloyne, Cloyne, 29 December 1828, to Dionysius Lardner, 3p. Ms.
32.	James Mackintosh: see no. 23, Anthony Todd Thomson
33.	Joseph Blanco White, Oxford, 3 January 1829, to [Dionysius Lardner] 1 p. Ms.
34.	Euguene Nugent, Epsom, n.d. [endorsed '5 January 1829'], to Dionysius Lardner, 3p. Ms.
35.	Charles Bell, Soho Square, 10 January 1829, to [the Education Committee of London University?], 3p, Ms.
36.	Charles James Blomfield, Bishop of London, St James's Square, 17 January 1838 [1829], to Dionysius Lardner, 3p.Ms.
37.	Armand Lévy, Quai de la Sauveniére no. 802, Liège, 25 January 1829, to [Dionysius Lardner] , 2p.MS
38.	John Fleming, Manse of Flisk, 28 January 1829, to Dionysius Lardner, 3p.MS.
39.	Leonard Horner, no place, 29 January n.y. [endorsed '1829'], to [Dionysius Lardner], 1 p. Ms
40.	Leonard Horner, University of London, 4 February 1829, to Dionysius Lardner, 1p.Ms.
41.	Davies Gilbert [Giddy], Westminster, 8 February 1829, to [Dionysius Lardner], 4p.Ms.
42.	Leonard Horner, University, 13 February n.y. [1829?], to [Dionysius Lardner], 2p.MS.
43.	Leonard Horner, 12 Upper Gower Street, 15 February 1829, to Dionysius Lardner, 1p.MS.
44.	Leonard Horner, University of London, 16 February 1829, to Dionysius Lardner, 1p.Ms.
45.	Henry Parr Hamilton, Trinity College, 18 February 1829, to [Dionysius Lardner], 2p, Ms.
46.	Leonard Horner, University of London, 19 February 1829, to Dionysius Lardner, 1p.Ms.
47.	Leonard Horner, University, 20 February 1829, to [Dionysius Lardner], 1p.Ms.
48.	Leonard Horner, University, 28 February n.y. [endorsed ['1829'], to Dionysius Lardner, 1p.Ms.
49.	Thomas Romney Robinson, Armagh Observatory, 28 February 1829, to Dionysius Lardner, 1p.Ms.
50.	Edward Smedley, Dulwich, 2 March 1829, to Dionysius Lardner, 2p.Ms.
51./1-2	T.W.C. Edwards, Terrace Cottage, Homerton, 7 March 1829, to Dionysius Lardner, 1p. Ms. with a prospectus on a method of instanteous communication, n.d.[1828-9], 1p. printed.(51/2 missing, as of 11/11/2005)
52.	Eugene Nugent, 19 Lambeth Terrace, 7 March n.y. [w.m. 186:1829?], to Dionysius Lardner. 3p.Ms.
53.	Leonard Horner, University of London, 10 March 1829, to Dionysius Lardner, 1p.Ms.
54.	Eugene Nugent, Lambeth Terrace, n.d. [endorsed '17 March 1829'], Dionysius Lardner, 3p.Ms.
55.	Nicholas Aylward Vigors, Bruton Street [?], 19 March 1829, to [Dionysius Lardner], 4p ms.
56.	Thomas Coates, University of London, 21 March 1829, to [Dionysius Lardner], 2p. Ms.
57.	Charles Bell, Soho Square, 23 March 1829, to Dionysius Lardner, 4p, Ms.
58.	Leonard Horner, University of London, 23 March 1829, to Dionysius Lardner, 1p.Ms.
59.	Michael Donovan, 12 D'Olier Street, Dublin, 12 February and 25 March n.y, [p.m. 1829], to [Dionysius Lardner, 3p. Ms.
60.	Contract between Dionysius Lardner, for the Proprietors of the Cabinet Cyclopaedia, and Peter Mark Roget; for the preparation and publication of a manuscript on Animal Physiology. Signed by Lardner and witnessed by Thomas Salter, London, 26 March 1829, 1p. Ms. copy
61.	G.B. [George Birkbeck], no place, n.d. [p.m. 30 March 1829], to Dionysius Lardner, 1p. Ms.
62.	John Pond, no place, n.d. [endorsed 'March 1829'], to [Dionysius Lardner], 1p.Ms.
63.	William Jory Henwood, Perran Wharf near Truro, 5 April 1829, to Dionysius Lardner, 3p. Ms.
64.	James Renwick, Columbia College, New York, 9 April 1829, to Dionysius Lardner, 2p. Ms.
65.	John Brinkley, Bishop of Cloyne, Cloyne, 13 April 1829, to Dionysius Lardner, 2p.Ms.
66.	Joseph Snow, 4 Lincoln's Inn Fields, 20 April 1829, to Dionysius Lardner, 2p.Ms.
67.	Memorandum on the lack of provision for teaching the art of drawing at London University, by Isaac Taylor, Ongar, 29 April 1829, 3p. Ms.
68.	John Landseer, Southampton Street, Fitzroy Square, n.d. [endorsed 'April 1829'], to Dionysius Lardner , 1p. Ms.
69.	Memorandum on the copyright property of Dionysius Lardner, by John Taylor, 4 May 1829, 1p. Ms.
70.	Nicholas Aylward Vigors, no place, 7 June 1829, to Dionysius Lardner, 3p. Ms.
71.	Eugene Nugent, Lambeth Terrace, n.d. [endorsed; 18 June 1829], to Dionysius Lardner, 2p.Ms.
72.	Henry Lardner, Epsom, 17 June 1829, to Dionysius Lardner, 2p. Ms.
73.	John Taylor, Upper Gower Street, 11 August 1829, to Dionysius Lardner, 4p.Ms.
74.	T.N.L. [Thomas Norton Longman], Pater Noster, Row, 16 September 1829, to John Taylor, 3p Ms. copy.
75.	John Taylor, Retford, 18 September 1829, to Dionysius Lardner, 1p.Ms.
76.	Michael Donovan, 12 D'Olier Street, 18 September n.d. [1829], to Dionysius Lardner, 3p.Ms.
77.	William Desborough Cooley, no place, 19 September n.y. [1829?], to Dionysius Lardner, 1p.Ms.
78.	Eyre Evans Crowe, Rue des Carrieres no. 25, aux Batignelles, Paris, 23 September 1829, to [Dionysius Lardner], 2p. Ms
79.	George Stephens Dickson, Walgrave, 28 September 1829, to Dionysius Lardner, 3p. Ms.
80.	Dionysius Lardner, 18 Duke Street, St James, 29 September n.y. [1829], to John Landseer [endorsement], 2p. Ms. draft.
81.	John Landseer, Southampton, 30 September 1829, to Dionysius Lardner, 3p. Ms.
82.	George Stephens Dickson, Walgrave, 30 September 1829, to Dionysius Lardner, 3p. Ms.
83.	John Harris Nicolas, Tavistock Square, 5 October 1829, to Dionysius Lardner, 2p. Ms
84.	James O'Dowd, Freeman's Journal Office, Dublin, 8 October 1829, to Dionysius Lardner, 1p.Ms.
85.	George Stephens Dickson, Walgrave, 9 October 1829, to [Dionysius Lardner], 2 p.Ms.
86.	Eugene Nugent, Lambeth Terrace, 10 October n.y. [w.m. 1828:1829?], to [Dionysius Lardner], 4p. Ms.
87.	Michael Donovan, Terenure, 18 October n.y. [1829], to Dionysius Lardner, 4p. Ms.
88.	Samuel Jacob, Wexford, 22 October 1829, to Dionysius Lardner, 3p. Ms.
89.	M.D. [Michael Donovan], no place, 27 October n.y,. [1829], to [Dionysius Lardner], 3p.Ms.
90.	Ambrose Adams Warden, Farmer's Journal Office, 29 Budge Row, Watling Street, 28 October 1829, to Dionysius Lardner, 3p. Ms.
91.	Edward Hinks, Killyleagh, 29 October 1829, to Thomas Dix Hincks, with a covering letter, T.D. Hincsk, Belfare, 30 October 1829, to Messrs, Longman & Co., 3p.Ms.
92.	Edward Turner, 38 Upper Gower Street, n.d. [endorsed 'October 1829'], to Dionysius Lardner, 2p.Ms.
93.	John Arthur Roebuck, Gray's Inn, n.d. [endorsed 'October 1829'], to Dionysius Lardner, 2p. Ms.
94.	George Robert Gleig, Ash, Wingham, Kent, 5 November 1829, to Dionysius Lardner, 2p. Ms.
95.	John Conolly, 50 Gloucester Place, Portman Square, 6 November 1829, to [Dionysius Lardner], 3p. Ms.
96.	M.D. [Michael Donovan], 12 D'Olier Street, 30 August n.y., to Dionysius Lardner, 1p. Ms.
97.	Thomas Keightley, 11 Chenies Street [?], 20 September n.y., to Dionysius Lardner, 1p. Ms.
98.	Thomas Keightley, no place, 5 November n.y. [w.m. 1827?], to Dionysius Lardner, 3p. Ms.
99.	Thomas Keightley, no place, 10 November n.y. [w.m. 1827], to Dionysius Lardner, 4p. Ms.
100.	Thomas Keightley, no place, 27 December n.y. [w.m. 1829], to Dionysius Lardner, 3p. Ms.
101.	John Landseer, Southampton, n.d., to Dionysius Lardner, 1p.Ms.
102.	H.C. [?illegible], Ives Place, Maidenhead, 31 October n.y. to ?, 1p. Ms.
103.	Eugene Nugent, Epsom, 18 December n.y., to Dionysius Lardner, 2p. Ms.
104.	J. Wilson, Lincoln's Inn Field, 8 October n.y. to [Dionysius Lardner], 1p Ms.

Letters to Lardner

1 unnumbered leaf, ix, 342 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf : illustrations, add. title page, plates ; (8vo)

Mechanics / By Henry Kater and Dionysius Lardner.

Cabinet cyclopaedia, conducted by Dionysius Lardner, Natural philosophy

xviii, 306, xl pages : illustrations ; 17 cm.

Natural philosophy. An essay on probabilities and their application to life contingencies and insurance offers by Augustus De Morgan.

The museum of science and art / edited by Dionysius Lardner.

On f. 6 is a note in another contemporary hand, 'Biographical notice of Dr Lardner written by himself for the Archives Generales'.

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