From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Richard Jones
Date:
[13 June 1849]
Source of text:
RS:HS 23.69
Summary:
Family news, questions of son Willy's position, frost in the garden, and JH met Louis Philippe.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Family news, questions of son Willy's position, frost in the garden, and JH met Louis Philippe.
Invites CW to come out to Collingwood next week when some other friends are coming, too.
Is pleased CW is coming [see JH's 1849-6-29]; JH asks CW to bring some of his apparatus to do polarized light experiments.
A number of copies of the Cape Results were sent out, including one to Charles Ludwig Littrow [see GA's 1849-6-22]; JH will now try to trace the books whereabouts.
Comments on JH's Treatise Astr. in the Cabinet Cyclopaedia, mentioning its continued publication, misstatements he wishes to correct, and his addition of A. de Gasparis's newly-discovered planet [Hygeia].