From:
Gabriel Auguste Daubrée
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[11 November 1861]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.29
Summary:
Asking JH to accept his book on the rock crystals.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
Asking JH to accept his book on the rock crystals.
Thanks GD for memoir on the subject of geological transformations.
Correspondence relating to the fall of a meteorite in South Africa on 13 Oct. 1838, and the provision of samples from Thomas Maclear by way of JH. [Letter illegible in parts.]
Further details about exhibiting samples of the South African meteorite [see GD's 1864-1-3]. [Letter illegible in parts.]
Says JH will receive an official letter of thanks from the administration of the Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle for the meteorite samples [see GD's 1865-1-23].
Officially writes on behalf of the Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle to thank JH for his assistance in providing samples of the South African meteorite.