From:
James Grahame
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[27 June 1826]
Source of text:
RS:HS 8.339
Summary:
Asks for information, on behalf of JG's father, about a Cambridge man.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Asks for information, on behalf of JG's father, about a Cambridge man.
Kept busy by writing. Works with Teodoro Monticelli. Expects Captain [Richard] Copeland to visit.
Thanks JH for material from AS of London. Mentions 'new comet.' Informs JH of being nominated to the list of foreign members in the American Philosophical Society.
J. J. Littrow's paper in F. X. von Zach's April [Correspondence astronomique, géologique, hydrographique et statistique] is only 'a new hash' of [F. W.] Bessel and no improvement.
Send plan of furnace to TY or Michael Faraday before tomorrow's committee meeting.
Describes the pendulum experiments he and G. B. Airy are carrying out in Dolcoath Mine.