From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Wilson Lowry
Date:
[12 February 1820]
Source of text:
St. John's College, Cambridge
Summary:
Asks where WL procured a certain 'large crystal of Fish-eye-Stone.'
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Asks where WL procured a certain 'large crystal of Fish-eye-Stone.'
Regarding the forthcoming meeting of the Astronomical Society. The printing of his own address. Is preparing a paper on functional equations. Is prepared to accept the office of Foreign Secretary of the Astronomical Society.
Clarifies areas of disagreement with DB in JH's explanation of the results of colored tints of light passing through polarizing crystals.