From:
Mary Somerville
To:
John Murray III
Date:
?? Aug 1835
Source of text:
87, MS 41131, NLS
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse
No summary available.
Received his February letter and is pleased to hear that things are progressing. No one has seen Halley's Comet yet. His work on the reduction of the Cape observations is proceeding slowly. Had no idea he gave such a poor impression of the Cape climate. David Brewster and J. D. Forbes have not visited Edinburgh recently.