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From:
Charles John Huffam Dickens
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
28 May 1850
Source of text:
IEE MS SC 2
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Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Sends on announcement of 'new planet Parthenope' from Annibal de Gasparis at Naples.
Reports that [Annibal] de Gasparis has discovered a new asteroid, Parthenope. Gasparis credits JH with the discovery because JH had proposed the name Parthenope when AG had discovered Hygeia.