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From:
John Phillips
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[22 October 1859]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0428.24; Reel 1093
Summary:

JH appointed to a committee including George Wilson, David Brewster, Clerk Maxwell, William Thomson, and William Pole to study color blindness. They will be granted £10.

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John Herschel Project

Herschel8343

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Elizabeth White
Date:
[22 October 1859]
Source of text:
RS:HS 19.146 (C: 23.92)
Summary:

Encloses note from R. J. Kane. JH observed oscillating wave created by small waterfall in EW's garden at Holybourne. Requests diagram and measurements of it.

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John Herschel Project
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