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Herschel5670

From:
Miles Bland
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[25 February 1832]
Source of text:
RS:HS 4.158
Summary:

The postal packet that he forwarded to Durham has been lost, so would be grateful if JH would send him another recommendation. Must not speak too humbly of himself. Finds Cambridge much changed.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6701

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Charles G. B. Daubeny
Date:
[25 February 1832]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.18 & 21.102
Summary:

Sending a paper for CD and one for S. P. Rigaud and William Buckland. Would like Buckland's support for W. H. Mill, a candidate for the Boden professorship at Oxford. Has been speculating on the effect of snow on the heights of mountains. Thinks David Brewster has carried his joke about the decline of chemistry too far.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8715

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Stephen Peter Rigaud
Date:
[25 February 1832]
Source of text:
Bodleian Library, Oxford (C: RS:HS 21.101)
Summary:

Asks SR to vote for [William Hodge] Mill for the new Boden Professorship of Oriental Literature at Oxford. Thanks SR for gift of SR's book on James Bradley.

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John Herschel Project
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