From:
William Henry Fox Talbot
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[21 March 1839]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.289
Summary:
Comments on Louis Daguerre's use of muriatic ether, and encloses a photograph of hand writing.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Comments on Louis Daguerre's use of muriatic ether, and encloses a photograph of hand writing.
Speaks of his meeting with the acting general of artillery and the master general secretary, who approved of employing men and engineers in the fixed observation work in St. Helena and Canada. Encloses the remainder of the translation of C. F. Gauss's first volume.
Humphrey Lloyd has asked for magnetometers, assuming that the 'Authority' approves of the instruments. Remarks that Lloyd's observatory will be ready for visitors in late June and that Lloyd plans to go to the continent in July. States nothing more can be done regarding the selection of employees until the Authority acts. Believes an application will have to be made to the R.S.L.