From:
Richard Sheepshanks
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[20 April 1845]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0530; Reel 1093
Summary:
George Bishop refuses permission for W. R. Dawes to edit Dawes's own observations. Portrait of Francis Baily should be nearly finished. Auction of Baily's books. Plans to start over 'de novo' and not use Baily's method for evaluating standards of measure. Convinced that standards must be connected with Ordnance survey of U.K. and T. F. Colby's units.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project