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Herschel3587

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Henry Clifton Sorby
Date:
[11 September 1856]
Source of text:
RS:HS 23.179
Summary:

Thanks HS for response to and explains further JH's letter to John Tyndall regarding explanation of origin of geological slaty cleavage.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4109

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Henry Smyth
Date:
[11 September 1856]
Source of text:
RS:HS 23.180
Summary:

Success of C. P. Smyth's Teneriffe expedition pleases JH; anxious for declination of nebulae taken from high altitudes. Upset over G. J. Stoney's reproduction of JH's collimating telescope without giving him credit.

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John Herschel Project
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