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From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Charles Babbage
Date:
1814-11
Source of text:
RS:HS 2.33 (C: RS:HS 20.21)
Summary:

Has executed all of CB's commissions. Hopes to meet Charles Shadwell when in town. Is in the throes of exams. Thinking of taking up mathematics. Relates further chemical experiments.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Unidentified
Date:
1814-11
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0640; Reel 1089
Summary:

Finds no experimental evidence connecting index of capillary action to index of refraction.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Babbage
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[14 November 1814]
Source of text:
RS:HS 2.32
Summary:

Thanking him for the paper on analysis. Has been to see Sir Joseph Banks. Hopes to see JH soon.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project