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From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Edward Sabine
Date:
[28 October 1859]
Source of text:
RS:HS 23.281
Summary:

Requests information concerning a letter to the Treasury, which ES had asked JH to write, regarding funding for [meteorological] stations in Vancouver, Shanghai, Newfoundland, and the Falkland Islands.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Elizabeth Colling
Date:
[17 October 1859]
Source of text:
RS:HS 23.280
Summary:

Apology for delay in returning a biographical note; some concern about state of Indian society.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Elizabeth White
Date:
[22 October 1859]
Source of text:
RS:HS 19.146 (C: 23.92)
Summary:

Encloses note from R. J. Kane. JH observed oscillating wave created by small waterfall in EW's garden at Holybourne. Requests diagram and measurements of it.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Henry W. Field
Date:
[27] October 1859
Source of text:
RS:HS 7.218 & 23.279
Summary:

Testimony to the value of HF's work when JH was Master of the Mint.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project