From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
James Wood
Date:
[26 July 1832]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.298b
Summary:
Flattered by JW's request [see JH's 1832-6-8] for portrait. Business matters delay JH selecting artist.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Flattered by JW's request [see JH's 1832-6-8] for portrait. Business matters delay JH selecting artist.
Received JH's 'Fourth Series of Observations...' [1831] on double stars. Donated it to College library.
Delighted by JH's discovery of orbit of Gamma Virginis. JH has conclusively established 'the indefinite extent and uniformity of the principle of gravitation.' Invites JH and wife to visit Cambridge.
Commissioned to ask JH to select painter and to sit for half-length portrait to be placed in Old House at St. John's. Received JH's paper on the measures of double stars.