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Wallace, William in correspondent 
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From:
William Wallace
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[21 October 1840]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.27
Summary:

Notes loss of many old friends. Three years seclusion with bad health produced WW's treatise on conic sections, translated to Russian. Sends book on geometrical theorems and two memoirs. Discovered JH stated in 1813 what WW thought was recent discovery about catenary.

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John Herschel Project
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