From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel
Date:
[22 January 1822]
Source of text:
RS:HS 19.1
Summary:
FB was elected associate of Astronomical Society.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
FB was elected associate of Astronomical Society.
Thanks JH for FB becoming Associate member of Astronomical Society; FB is planning to prepare a new major star catalogue.
Thanks JH for some papers, sends some of his own; comments about errors in Greenwich star catalogue.
Thanks for the publications by FB that FB sent. JH has sent the copies to the persons FB designated. Discusses the 'enigmatical difference in the places of the stars as observed here & on the Continent.' Cannot explain this.