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From:
Gideon Algernon Mantell
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
c December 1847
Source of text:
RI MS Conybeare Album, f.45
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Sends JH a copy of sailing tables, and asks JH's opinion as to the value of printing them.
John Lubbock entitled to bring his proposal before R.A.S., and to the best advice they can give, but the idea of explaining new views on physical astronomy strikes RS as 'objectionable' in principle. No one will understand his presentation. How to proceed with this. RS's work on the standard yard.