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From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Angela Georgina Burdett Coutts
Date:
29 December 1846
Source of text:
W.A.F. Burdett-Coutts
Summary:
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Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Nearly a year has passed since they received letters from the Herschels. Hopes JH's health is improving. Gives news of her own children, and the work of her husband at Orange River. The Equatorial has arrived safely.
Discusses possible meteorological and magnetic research possibilities in the colonies, particularly at Bermuda.
Discusses issues raised in JH's 'On the Chemical Action of the Rays of the Solar Spectrum on Preparations of Silver....'
Responding to a published statement by WW regarding the discovery of Neptune, JH presents in detail a different interpretation, giving more credit to U. J. J. Leverrier than WW favored. Suggests that some observatory make a photographic record of sunspots.