From:
Johann Wilhelm Pastorff
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1820 to 1824]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 6/2.10 verso; Reel 8
Summary:
Sends paper on photospheres to be read to Astronomical Society.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
Sends paper on photospheres to be read to Astronomical Society.
Announces new Astronomical Society. Invites WO to become associate.
Congratulates on having obtained position at St. John's. Asks whether Cambridge University Press would publish new edition of Giuseppe Piazzi's star catalog.
JH presented JP's paper on photospheres to Society.