From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
[30 May 1869]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.407a (C: 24.264; C: RI 563-4)
Summary:
Suggests experiments with regard to polarization and vaporization, and comets' tails.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Suggests experiments with regard to polarization and vaporization, and comets' tails.
Thanks for paper on comets. Offers questions, problems to be resolved, particularly on termination of comet.
Thanks for JH's suggestions on JT's outline of comet speculations. [G. B.] Airy, too, has replied. Includes more speculations on 'envelopes' and nucleus of comet.