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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

Herschel9482

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Unidentified
Date:
[29 February 1832]
Source of text:
unknown
Summary:

Responds to an unidentified mathematician who had written a critique of ideas put forward by Thomas Drummond, regarding whether to estimate the importance of various boroughs primarily in terms of population or in terms of the wealth of the population.

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John Herschel Project
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