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HENSLOW-288

From:
J. S. Henslow
To:
William Whewell
Date:
30 April 1859
Source of text:
Trinity College Cambridge Whewell Add.Ms.a.206: 73
Summary:

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Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project

Herschel9205

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Whewell
Date:
[4 September 1859]
Source of text:
TC, Camb. Add. Ms.a.20798 (C: RS:HS 23.275)
Summary:

Asks WW to check JH's draft report for the Meteorological and Magnetic Committee. Illness will keep him from attending the B.A.A.S. meeting.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel9206

From:
William Whewell
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[29 September 1859]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.214
Summary:

Asks JH for his impressions of the Aberdeen B.A.A.S. meeting and of U. J. J. Leverrier's claim that there may be an intermercurial planet.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel9207

From:
William Whewell
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[27 November 1859]
Source of text:
inc RS:HS 18.215
Summary:

Asks JH about two publications: [Felix Eberty's anonymous] The Stars and the Earth and J. C. Maxwell's theory of compound colors, WW recommending the latter.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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