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From:
George Gabriel Stokes
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[27 February 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.62
Summary:

Comments against the paper of Ernst Klinkerfüss about observations of dispersed star light [see JH's 1866-2-24].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[27 February 1866]
Source of text:
RGO 6.381.444
Summary:

About William Whewell's accident, and the ideas of E. F. W. Klinkerfüss on the behavior of light due to the motion of a star source.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
William Selwyn
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[27 February 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.476
Summary:

William Whewell has gotten up to walk several times. The left side of his body and face is still 'not quite right.'

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Gabriel Stokes
Date:
[28 February 1866]
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library 7656/H710
Summary:

Agrees with GS's assessment of Ernst Klinkerfüss's paper [see GS's 1866-2-27].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project