From:
Marc August Pictet
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[30 April 1824]
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.400
Summary:
Sends some observations of Mars, and describes the functioning of some new equipment.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
Sends some observations of Mars, and describes the functioning of some new equipment.
Sorry to hear Smith cannot come to London on 4 May. Spent the last three weeks confined with gout and the "epidemic cold". Sir James Graham of Netherby, his nearest Cumberland neighbour, has died after a ten day illness. [Alexander] Macleay has called a Linnean Society council meeting but not indicated its subject. Enjoying Smith's new work ["English Flora"], hopes to live to see the cryptogamia.