From:
Johann Franz Encke
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[9 March 1839]
Source of text:
RS:HS 7.91
Summary:
JH has been elected to the Prussian Academy of Science; comments on JE's astronomical observations.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
Showing 1–2 of 2 items
JH has been elected to the Prussian Academy of Science; comments on JE's astronomical observations.
Asks JE to express JH's gratitude to the Royal Academy of Berlin for electing JH a foreign member. Discusses JE's observations of divisions in the ring of Saturn, JH's sightings of Saturn's satellites, the British Antarctic expedition, and comets.