From:
Carl Friedrich Gauss
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[10 November 1821]
Source of text:
RS:HS 8.73
Summary:
Has been absent the whole summer and fears that his letter acknowledging his election to the Astronomical Society may have gone astray. Is grateful for the honor. Sends a paper of his own on a new method of making observations with the heliotrope. Comments on the usefulness of this instrument.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project