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Herschel12356

From:
Robert Treat Paine
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1 August 1840]
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.213
Summary:

Magnetic observations have been made regularly for a year and a half at the college at Cambridge by W. C. Bond. After JH's letter another set of instruments has been obtained to make another series of observations. Money from Hugh Smithson has been loaned to Arkansas. Comments on red auroral light seen. With the more frequent steamship service now hopes for quicker communications from JH.

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John Herschel Project

Herschel12357

From:
Robert Treat Paine
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1 May 1841]
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.214
Summary:

Sends pamphlet for JH from Philadelphia. Author [E. P.] Mason died at the early age of 22. Believes he used a Herschelian telescope. Has been a mild winter in Boston.

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John Herschel Project

Herschel7631

From:
Robert Treat Paine
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1 March 1848]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 10/5.148; Reel 9
Summary:

Acknowledges receipt of JH's Cape Results. Offers map of Massachusetts, constructed from RP's triangulation and astronomical observation. Zeal for astronomy is increasing in America. Reports discoveries by W. C. Bond and total solar eclipse of Nov. 1834.

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