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From:
George Gabriel Stokes
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1 December 1868]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.72
Summary:

Organizational matters regarding paper reports; comments on light from sun's corona [see JH's 1868-11-8].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
John Tyndall
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1 December 1868]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.405a (C: RI 551-2)
Summary:

Continues experiments with carbonic acid and electric light [see JT's 1868-11-30], hoping to 'explode' idea that atmosphere's polarization is due to reflection by air particles.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project