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From:
John Frederick William Herschel
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
4 July 1826
Source of text:
SM MS 478/3, p.335-6
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Chemical constitution of meteorites. JH suspects lead-iron alloy. Believes this has not been proposed before. Send specimen for JH's analysis.
Comments on GA's observing in Cornwall, and on the geodetic calculations made by GA in a paper read by JH.
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Reports on interest at the Astronomical Society, especially of [Thomas J.] Hussey, in the plan of the Berlin Academy for a new star chart. JH cannot participate due to JH's commitment to re-examine his father's nebulae, which requires that JH reside far from London.