From:
D. François J. Arago
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[15 February 1831]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.354
Summary:
Is sending Volume 10 of the Memoirs of the Royal Academy of Sciences.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Is sending Volume 10 of the Memoirs of the Royal Academy of Sciences.
Thanking him for his publication on the sun, and stating that it will be placed in the library of the Institute.
Wants information for the journal. Apologizes for the delay in writing the letter.
Thanking him for sending the Memoirs.
Has asked L. F. Debure to send to JH the third volume of the Memoirs of the Foreign Correspondents of the Academy of Sciences.
JH has won the gold medal of the Academy of Sciences, and 635 francs, for his work on double stars. Sends his congratulations. The medal will be presented by the president.
The Academy has received JH's 'Instructions for making ... meteorological observations in South Africa. Thanks him for this.