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From:
Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
13 August 1850
Source of text:
IEE MS SC 2
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
No summary available.
Queries regarding JH's star lists. Sending magnetic information from A. T. Kupffer. Regarding the distribution of nebulae.
Is grateful for his constructive letter on the Coal Sack. Regarding the work of the Schlaginweit brothers.
News of the astronomical activities of his colleagues. Astronomical queries.
Astronomical queries, with particular reference to the Coal Sack. [Probably to JH, but unclear from letter.]