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Herschel5370

From:
Charles Babbage
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[19 August 1847]
Source of text:
RS:HS 2.317
Summary:

Remarks on JH's Southern astronomy volume [Cape Results].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7497

From:
Count [Frederik] Reventlow
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[19 August 1847]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 10/5.14; Reel 9
Summary:

Will forward copies of JH's Cape Results to recipients in Denmark.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-1111

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Thomas De la Beche
Date:
19 Aug [1847]
Source of text:
National Museum of Wales, Department of Natural Sciences (De la Beche)
Summary:

Bernhard Studer has been at Down. Studer will not be able to join HDelaB’s Ordnance Survey working party.

CD is glad to hear about very old rocks under Silurians. "There is something grand and mysterious at these depths."

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel7581

From:
James Cosmo Melvill
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[19 August 1847]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 10/5.98; Reel 9
Summary:

Gratitude for copy of JH's Cape Results received by HEIC library. Will forward copies to HEIC observatories in Madras and Bombay and to library of Asiatic Society of Bengal.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7567

From:
Phillipe Jarnac
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[19 August 1847]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 10/5.84; Reel 9
Summary:

Will distribute copies [of JH's Cape Results] if JH will forward them to French embassy.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7516

From:
Temple Chevallier
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[19 August 1847]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 10/5.33; Reel 9
Summary:

Thanks from curators of Durham Observatory for Cape Results.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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