From:
Sir Robert Harry Inglis
To:
John Herschel
Date:
27 Apr 1850
Source of text:
HS 10.246, RS
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse
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Hopes to present the petition on Monday. Had a letter from Mary Somerville at Turin introducing Count and Countess Grizzo.
Discusses balloon experiments to explain fall of barometer with humidity, and explains more discrepancies in vapor-pressure observations. Mentions new 'Hygrometric condenser' as an alternative to wet bulb experiments.