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Herschel12029

From:
Roderick Impey Murchison
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[3 June 1837]
Source of text:
RS:HS 12.391
Summary:

JH's letter has appeared in print in Charles Babbage's Bridgewater Treatise. Comments on the books of Babbage and William Whewell. C. R. Darwin has read his paper on Coral Reefs. RM is to be General Secretary of the next B.A.A.S. meeting. [William?] Ayrton was elected F.R.S.

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John Herschel Project

Herschel1710

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Harry George Wakelyn Smith
Date:
[3 June 1837]
Source of text:
RS:HS 16.197 (C: RS:HS 21.221 & Rhodes Univ. Library inc)
Summary:

Comments on the shooting death in 1835 of Hintsa, leader of the Xhosa people. JH believes that no wrongdoing occurred.

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John Herschel Project
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