Text Online
From:
John Tyndall
To:
John Tyndall, Snr
Date:
Sunday morning, (August 15th, 1841)
Source of text:
MS JT/1/10/3236-7, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
No summary available.
Complains further about French specific gravity designation [see JH's 1841-8-14 or earlier], and describes observing colored fringes on the edge of clouds.
Discusses meteor showers of 9 August 1840, emanating from a point in the constellation Perseus. Calls attention to a report on these meteors as seen from near Vesuvius in 1779 by William Hamilton.