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From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Edward Magrath
Date:
23 July 1826
Source of text:
RI MS F1 B06
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Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Reports on interest at the Astronomical Society, especially of [Thomas J.] Hussey, in the plan of the Berlin Academy for a new star chart. JH cannot participate due to JH's commitment to re-examine his father's nebulae, which requires that JH reside far from London.
Appointed Professeur au Jardin du Roi.
Reports the death of Giuseppe Piazzi.
About plans to spend the winter at Hastings.
Sends roots of the "new everlasting pea" 'Lathyrus grandiflorus'. Compliments to Sir Thomas [Gery Cullum].
Is coming to Shrewsbury. Finds little to do but hunt rabbits. Has heard from Nathan Hubbersty and Frederick Watkins.