From:
George Gabriel Stokes
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[20 July 1869]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.75
Summary:
Extended comments on John Herschel's [JH's son] observations of the spectrum of the solar corona.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
Extended comments on John Herschel's [JH's son] observations of the spectrum of the solar corona.
Has been asked by Henry Powell [new vicar of Down] for help to build a house at Down; asks for CD’s advice.
Responds to questions about sex ratios at birth and mortality in either sheep or cattle.
Sends C. M. Browne’s notes on transmission of colour in greyhounds [see Variation, 2d ed., 2: 40]
and a letter from Major Holland.
WBT to visit America.