From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Elizabeth Colling
Date:
[17 October 1859]
Source of text:
RS:HS 23.280
Summary:
Apology for delay in returning a biographical note; some concern about state of Indian society.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
Apology for delay in returning a biographical note; some concern about state of Indian society.
Encloses note from R. J. Kane. JH observed oscillating wave created by small waterfall in EW's garden at Holybourne. Requests diagram and measurements of it.
Testimony to the value of HF's work when JH was Master of the Mint.
Requests information concerning a letter to the Treasury, which ES had asked JH to write, regarding funding for [meteorological] stations in Vancouver, Shanghai, Newfoundland, and the Falkland Islands.