From:
Edward Sabine
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[5 December 1861]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.259
Summary:
Requests JH sign certificate for [W. F.] Hook. Asks JH to forward it to William Whewell for his signature.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
Requests JH sign certificate for [W. F.] Hook. Asks JH to forward it to William Whewell for his signature.
Admires LR’s book [Die Fauna der Pfahlbauten (1861)].
Will attempt to arrange for skull of wild white Chillingham cattle to be sent by Earl of Tankerville.
CD has come to same conclusion as LR on zebus.
CD’s MS of Variation is half-prepared.
JH's 'scientific activity' has long been at zero, but JH has of late been preparing a lecture on the sun and translating Homer's Iliad.