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Sir William Huggins. Colour lithograph by Sir L. Ward [Spy], 1903.

Fellows of the Royal Society: Sir John Evans, bust of Sir Isaac Newton, Lord Kelvin, R.B. Clifton, G.G. Stokes, Sir Michael Foster, Lord Lister, Arthur W. Rucker, Sir J.D. Hooker, Sir William Huggins, Sir W.T. Thiselton Dyer. Photograph by Mayall.

Some Fellows of the Royal Society: with a key to the identities of the sitters. Wood engraving, 1889.

Sir William Huggins. Process print after Walker & Cockerell.

Sir William Huggins. Photogravure after John Collier, 1905.

Selected correspondence of William Huggins / Barbara J. Becker, editor.

Huggins, Sir William (1824-1910), astronomer.

Spectrum analysis in its application to terrestrial substances, and the physical constitution of the heavenly bodies / familiarly explained by H. Schellen ; translated from the second enlarged and revised German edition by Jane and Caroline Lassell ; edited with notes by William Huggins ; with numerous woodcuts and coloured plates, and Ångström's and Kirchhoff's maps.

The Royal Society, or, Science in the state and in the schools / by Sir William Huggins ; with twenty-five illustrations.

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Huggins, Sir William (1824-1910), astronomer.

The Royal Society, or, Science in the state and in the schools / by Sir William Huggins ; with twenty-five illustrations.