From:
Alfred Gautier
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[9 February 1848]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 10/5.130; Reel 9
Summary:
Informs JH that JH has been made an honorary member of the Physical and Natural History Society of Geneva; the Society thanks JH for a copy of his Cape Results. Comments on F. V. Mauvais's discovery of a comet and on the illness and death of Caroline Herschel. Will send comments on some of JH's astronomical work later.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project