From:
[George Gabriel Stokes]
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[19 November 1858]
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library 7656/TR63
Summary:
Thanks for paper on magnetism, and other minor matters.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
Thanks for paper on magnetism, and other minor matters.
No summary available.
Encloses copy of a letter addressed to GA from Toronto University (dated 30 October 1858 and stating that the Toronto Observatory has not been closed in spite of what the R.S.L. and B.A.A.S. joint committee have stated). Difficulties because of Edward Sabine's illness.
Sends an account of different colours and shapes of seeds raised from ordinary seeds of scarlet runner. [See Cross and self-fertilisation, p. 151.]
Describes JH's visit to an old, bedridden friend [Bullar?]; JH has seen son John on board ship at Southampton, and then comments on the beauty of the country, which JH enjoyed as he traveled.