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From:
Thomas Maclear
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[3 April 1839]
Source of text:
RS:HS 12.117
Summary:

Presents suggestions for improving and extending Land Station observatories. Will study parallax of Alpha1 and Alpha2 Centauri. Government will survey the colony. Quarantine due to measles outbreak. Boers hostile.

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John Herschel Project

Herschel4470

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Thomas Maclear
Date:
[28 April 1839]
Source of text:
Cape Archives/Maclear Papers File 100
Summary:

Sends Michael Faraday's analysis of TM's meteorite specimen. Cape Observatory will receive theodolite and sidereal telescopes. Government orders Antarctic Magnetico-Explorative Expedition. JH's photography work results in unfixed images. Will report on TM's paper concerning the [N. L.] Lacaille's Stations.

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