From:
Alfred Brothers
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[27 October 1864]
Source of text:
RS:HS 4.296
Summary:
Is preparing a lecture on photography and wonders if JH was the inventor of the hyposulfite fixing process.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Is preparing a lecture on photography and wonders if JH was the inventor of the hyposulfite fixing process.
Is grateful for his letter regarding the claim for the discovery of the hyposulfite fixing process.
Regarding the differences between portraits and photographs. Is sending him some magnesium for photographic purposes.
Would like to publish his letter on the hyposulfite fixing process.
Encloses photographs taken of the last eclipse. Draws his attention to certain aspects of the eclipse.
Explaining why the moon's disc is circular.
Outlines his claim as being the inventor of the hyposulfite fixing process.
Thanks for, and comments on, some photographs of the solar corona.