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From:
Robert Main
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[29 August 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 12.284
Summary:

Asks JH if he wants to make any changes in his article on meteorology for a new edition of the Admiralty Manual.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Robert Main
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[2 September 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 12.285
Summary:

Sends some remeasured double star positions from the Radcliffe Observatory, together with comments about other double star observations.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Main
Date:
6 Oct 1870
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.384)
Summary:

Regrets he is unable to correct his "little manual" ["Geology" in Manual of scientific enquiry (1849)]. Recommends that John Phillips revise it.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Huggins
To:
Robert Main
Date:
[13 June 1871]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 14/4.2.2; Reel 11
Summary:

Directs RM and Charles Pritchard to examine late JH's manuscript on history of double stars, sent to Radcliffe Observatory.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project