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Herschel9102

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Whewell
Date:
19 December [1838]
Source of text:
TC, Camb. Add. Ms.a.20735 (C: RS:HS 21.272)
Summary:

Asks WW, and through him George Peacock, to judge whether B.A.A.S. funds should provide some instruments for the Breslau Magnetic Observatory.

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John Herschel Project

Herschel9239

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
John Timbs
Date:
[19 December 1838]
Source of text:
Yale Univ.
Summary:

Apologizes for delay in responding to JT's wish to publish JH's portrait as the frontispiece of JT's Arcana of Science; adds that the only portrait of JH of which JH is aware is that at St. John's College, Cambridge.

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John Herschel Project
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