From:
William Henry Fox Talbot
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[15 June 1840]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.302a
Summary:
Sends a few photographs and says he has read JH's recent memoir. Will comment later.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Sends a few photographs and says he has read JH's recent memoir. Will comment later.
No objection to JH publishing soundings of J. C. Ross. FB will send JH detailed records of these. Any letters to Ross must arrive by 18 June for dispatch to Hobart Town. FB has copies of Thomas Maclear's correspondence about magnetic observations.
Has no objection to the recipient's republication of the 'Examples of the Differ. & Integl Calculus by Mr. Peacock,' to which JH contributed.
Sending officially the thanks of the Council of the R.A.S. to JH and Caroline Herschel for their gift of the telescope. Hopes JH will convey these thanks to Miss Herschel.