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
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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.
Asks if JE or the Academy of Sciences wish to participate in the British plan to make worldwide magnetic observations.