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From:
John Williams
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[6 December 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.410
Summary:

Acknowledges receipt by R.A.S. of papers relating to William Herschel's observations of double stars.

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John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
John Williams
Date:
[21 April 1871]
Source of text:
RAS: MSS Add.29 [suppl.]
Summary:

Encloses copy of JH's letter to R.A.S. [see JH's 1864-6-29] that accompanied JH's submission of W. L. Newman's tables for determining radii of aplanatic lenses. Suspects that there was more than one volume of tables.

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John Herschel Project
From:
John Williams
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[24 April 1871]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.411
Summary:

In Nov. 1864, R.A.S. council instructed secretary Charles Pritchard to write to JH regarding tables by late [W. L.] Newman of York, but JW finds no evidence that Pritchard complied. Cannot find Newman's tables. Pritchard may have taken them.

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