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SOMERVILLE594

From:
Mary Somerville
To:
Adolphe Quetelet
Date:
16 Feb 1838
Source of text:
reprinted in Correspondance mathematique et physique, Quetelet (ed), Tome X, 1838, pg 463
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse

Herschel2955

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Adolphe Quetelet
Date:
[25 October 1838]
Source of text:
Académie belgique: #12
Summary:

Thanks for duplicates of horary observations. Requests that AQ and his associates cease them after December 1838. Questions 'whether any and what' corrections are applied to observations. Has successfully seen second satellite of Saturn.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel2954

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Adolphe Quetelet
Date:
[15 November 1838]
Source of text:
Académie belgique: #11
Summary:

Thanks AQ for meteorological observations for September 1838 and other materials sent. Singles 12 and 13 November as extraordinarily clear. Observed a 'paucity of shooting stars' and an Aurora Borealis.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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