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From:
James David Forbes
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[18 September 1847]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 10/5.120; Reel 9
Summary:

Gratitude for gift of JH's Cape Results. Just returned from geological tour of highlands with [Bernhard] Studer from Bern [Switzerland]. Hopes to purchase Madame Witte's 'model of the Moon...for Edinburgh,' if it has not been bought in London. Observed Neptune at Oxford in company with U. J. J. Leverrier, J. C. Adams, and Wilhelm Struve.

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John Herschel Project
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