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Hall, Basil in correspondent 
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Herschel10311

From:
Basil Hall
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
n.d.
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.193bis
Summary:

Further explanation of a matter in gunnery. Can send further sketches if he is still interested.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10312

From:
Basil Hall
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
n.d.
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.194
Summary:

Has accepted an invitation to visit the Victory and hopes to meet the JH's at the same party. Is off to the dockyard to see about an anchor.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10313

From:
Basil Hall
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
n.d.
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.195
Summary:

Has been staying at Rome, where the climate did not suit him, but is now on a small ship touring the Mediterranean. Sends a letter of Feliciano Scarpelini, who has a man working a specula made of marble. Palermo Observatory is being put on a secure footing.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10315

From:
Basil Hall
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
n.d.
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.197
Summary:

Further about the experiments of T. T. Grant. Man presented him with a sealed packet on the subject of the precession of the equinoxes by means of the libration of the moon.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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