From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers
Date:
[1820-1]
Source of text:
RS:HS 19.9
Summary:
Announces new Astronomical Society. Invites WO to become associate.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
Announces new Astronomical Society. Invites WO to become associate.
Congratulates on having obtained position at St. John's. Asks whether Cambridge University Press would publish new edition of Giuseppe Piazzi's star catalog.
JH presented JP's paper on photospheres to Society.
Would he please send back some of his papers on astronomy as he wants them in order to draw up a prospectus.
Arrangements for paying dues to the Royal Society of Edinburgh; some comments about light passing through crystals.