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Herschel11279

From:
John Lee
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[17 September 1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.182
Summary:

James Glaisher has made two more balloon ascents and reached six miles high. W. R. Birt has been observing at Hartwell during the present lunation and discovered several new spots, a sea, and craters. Sends details. Is sending a petition to H. J. Temple (3rd Viscount Palmerston) for a pension for Birt and would be glad if JH would look it over and sign it.

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John Herschel Project

Herschel8938

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
The London Review
Date:
[17 September 1862]
Source of text:
London Review, 5 (Sept. 20, 1862), 264
Summary:

Congratulations on the balloon ascent to 30,000 feet by James Glaisher and Henry Coxwell. Suggests far greater heights are possible using compressed oxygen to breathe and the 'Peruvian coca leaf' [cocaine] as a source of strength.

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