From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[26 August 1844]
Source of text:
RGO 6.675.360
Summary:
Cannot explain why GA's letter did not reach JH.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Cannot explain why GA's letter did not reach JH.
Urges GA to print any of John Pond's and Nevil Maskelyne's observations that seem free from serious error [see GA's 1844-8-28].
Informing JH that he certainly wrote to him from Limerick.
Regarding F. W. Bessel's letter on the irregularity of proper motion in stars. Is it worth printing Nevil Maskelyne's observations on star places?
About a suggested magnetism conference, Francis Baily's illness, and some remarkable observations by F. W. Bessel.