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From:
Gilbert Elliot, Second Earl of Minto
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
25] June [1822
Source of text:
RS:HS 7.33
Summary:

Would like very much to see JH as soon as possible. Has an instrument of [J. C.?] Schenk to show him. There is one on the way to him now from Paris.

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John Herschel Project

Herschel8585

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Joseph Johann Littrow
Date:
[25 June 1822]
Source of text:
Columbia Univ. Library (ACCS: RS:HS 19.8 & C: 20.145)
Summary:

Thanks for the publications sent; lists materials JH is sending JL. Asks about quality of Josef Fraunhofer's large telescopes. JH read part of JL's letter of 2 Jan. 1822 at Astronomical Society meeting. Discusses proper motion of sun, JL's work on latitude of the pole star, observatory clocks, micrometers, and the Cambridge Observatory.

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