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From:
Michael Faraday
To:
John Frederick William Herschel
Date:
8 February 1851
Source of text:
RS MS HS 7.191
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Questions a statement in JH's Outlines Astr. regarding the light of Sirius. Also repeated in Alexander von Humboldt's Cosmos.
Finds he made an error last night due to his bad memory. The Duke was asking for JH; hopes he met him after Richard Owen's discourse.