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Autograph Letter Signed ‘W.Buckland’, to Henry Lawson, the astronomer, thanking him for “your short history of the wonderful Discovery of the New Planet – the greatest Triumph that has ever been accomplished in Physical Science”, asking for further copies for Sir Robert Peel and for the Hon. C.Arbuthnot, the Duke of Wellington’s secretary, “these Gentlemen have been corresponding with me on this subject”. 2 pp. 7 x 4 inches, fine. Deanery, 6 March 1847. William Buckland (1784-1856), geologist and palaeontologist, Dean of Westminster. Henry Lawson (1774-1855) published a History of the New Planets (1847).