From:
Robert Main
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[4 August 1847]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 10/5.18; Reel 9
Summary:
Received JH's Cape Results.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Received JH's Cape Results.
Notes strengths and weakness of heliometer for observing double stars. Calls it 'laborious, troublesome instrument.'
Directs RM and Charles Pritchard to examine late JH's manuscript on history of double stars, sent to Radcliffe Observatory.
Acknowledges, in G. B. Airy's absence, receipt of a letter from JH.
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