From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
David Brewster
Date:
[8 August 1817]
Source of text:
RS:HS 20.48
Summary:
Sends one mathematical article on isoperimetrical problems and asks to write the article on variations as well.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
Sends one mathematical article on isoperimetrical problems and asks to write the article on variations as well.
Family news, and the sad state of current poetry.
Encloses paper by DeWitt Clinton for "Linnean Transactions" [unknown], with plants and seeds to follow. Appends an addition to his paper on "the Carolina fungus" in case it is published. Has sent a box of books.
Sending Professor [Josef August] Schultes' new botanical publication, [presumably "Osterreichs Flora"], by request of the author.