From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
the Athenaeum
Date:
[6 September 1864]
Source of text:
WT B.14
Summary:
Sends a circular and JH's response to it for possible publication.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Sends a circular and JH's response to it for possible publication.
Expresses his views on how the British should select their standard of length. Also discusses John Taylor's views of the Great Pyramid.
[Following up on JH's 1860-4-23,] notes another numerical relationship between the dimensions of the Great Pyramid and those of the earth.
Calls attention to a report of a lake in Central America that 'gives rise to two rivers.'
Calls attention to James Grahame's History of the United States of North America. Criticizes the Saturday Review for having slighted that work.