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Struve, Wilhelm in correspondent 
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Herschel3025

From:
Wilhelm Struve
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[4 October 1846]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.135
Summary:

Description of Pulkowa observatory sent fourteen days before. Included a listing of the library. Otto Struve works on micrometer measurements of double stars. Complains about [J. H. von] Mädler's unprofessional attitude at Dorpat. Announces 'Neptune' as new planet's name.

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John Herschel Project

Herschel3026

From:
Wilhelm Struve
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
1846-10-4 or later
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.136
Summary:

Sends paper on naming of Neptune. Denounces elimination of [J. C. ] Adams's part versus U. J. J. Le Verrier's role regarding Neptune. Will forward Otto Struve's paper on the expedition between Altona and Greenwich and his own Positiones mediae stellarum fixarum.

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John Herschel Project
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