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From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Carl Friedrich Gauss
Date:
[4 September 1842]
Source of text:
NSUB Cod.Ms.Gauss 99 (ACCS 2pp RS:HS 25.6.12)
Summary:

The instructions for making magnetic and meteorological observations are to be revised. JH asks CG's advice about this.

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John Herschel Project

Herschel9731

From:
Carl Friedrich Gauss
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[24 October 1842]
Source of text:
RS:HS 8.78
Summary:

Pleased to hear that the magnetic observations are to be continued for a further three years. Mode of conducting observations in some foreign observatories would seem to need improvement. Has made a series of observations of magnetic inclination, which will be published in the sixth volume of Resultate.

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