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From:
Robert FitzRoy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[11 March 1863]
Source of text:
RS:HS 19.217
Summary:

Speculates on gravitational effect of sun and moon on earth's atmosphere.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel9533

From:
Robert FitzRoy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[10 March 1863]
Source of text:
RS:HS 7.263
Summary:

Book he intended to write has had to be postponed as he has been asked to prepare a second edition of his Weather Book. Sends a proof of the revision of the 18th chapter.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel9535

From:
Robert FitzRoy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[20 March 1863]
Source of text:
RS:HS 7.265
Summary:

Thanks for his opinion; it will save him from exposure, but it is too late to get the book altered. Comments on some parts of JH's book on meteorology. The atmosphere appears to be smaller in extent than John Dalton conceived.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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