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From:
John Frederick William Herschel
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
6 June 1828
Source of text:
RI MS F3 B487
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Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Describes the tests JH made on a small glass prism of not very high quality, which JH has left at the Royal Institution.
Declines offer by Archbishop of Canterbury to join provisional committee to govern newly proposed King's College.
Charles Babbage has every reason to be grateful for FB's letter to the Times. Richard Sheepshanks and the observations. The ring of Saturn. Has been observing lots of Wilhelm Struve's double stars.