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Herschel8571

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
[Charles] Wentworth Dilke
Date:
[15 November 1848]
Source of text:
BostonPubLib Ms.KF, v.3, No. 296
Summary:

Regarding the letter on the planet Neptune, which JH submitted to the Athenaeum [see Athenaeum, #1100 (Nov. 25, 1848), 1176], JH requests suppression of the final paragraph 'referring to certain peculiar ideas of Professor [Benjamin] Peirce.'

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John Herschel Project

Herschel3166

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Edward Sabine
Date:
[15 November 1848]
Source of text:
RS Sa.658
Summary:

Supports proposed course of action to procure for [Francis] Ronalds half of the grant and recognition given to [Charles] Brooke alone for similar photographic invention.

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