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Herschel3589

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Otto Wilhelm Struve
Date:
[10 July 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.321
Summary:

Thanks for many works, especially double star catalogs, about which JH requests further information, and which will help JH's attempt to compile digest of all measures of all known double stars.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6867

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Warren de La Rue
Date:
[14 July 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.322
Summary:

Comments on sunspot activity; agrees to inclusion of some paragraphs in a paper WD is writing.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8738

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Richard Anthony Proctor
Date:
[28 July 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.323
Summary:

Approves RP's method of preparing isographic projection charts of the distribution of bright stars, noting that JH's gauges of the southern stars are incomplete.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6596

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Elizabeth Colling
Date:
[31 July 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.324
Summary:

Of talking fishes, a great meteor falling in Tripoli, and the 'madness of man' in the wake of the Franco-Prussian War.

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John Herschel Project
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