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From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
30 October 1846
Source of text:
RI MS F1 N/3/18
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
No summary available.
Discusses controversy over the discovery of Neptune. Astronomical committee of R.S.L. advised to award U. J. J. Leverrier the Copley Medal.
Regarding his paper about the new planet. Attacks by article in the Athenaeum.