From:
William Henry Sykes
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1852?]
Source of text:
RS MM.16.165
Summary:
Suggests possible times to meet with JH.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Suggests possible times to meet with JH.
Agrees with papers demonstrating falsity of present methods of correcting barometer for moisture and 'dogma of one gas being a vacuum to another.'
Asks JH to look at a letter by John Forbes Watson, whose paper the R.S.L. recently refused to read.
Encloses newly-discovered proof that John Forbes Watson's wet bulb depression was not a clerical error.
Plans date and time for first ascent of balloon experiment. WS's daughter has fallen in love with JH's son William.