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From:
J. S. Henslow
To:
William Whewell
Date:
30 April 1859
Source of text:
Trinity College Cambridge Whewell Add.Ms.a.206: 73
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Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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Asks WW to check JH's draft report for the Meteorological and Magnetic Committee. Illness will keep him from attending the B.A.A.S. meeting.
Asks JH for his impressions of the Aberdeen B.A.A.S. meeting and of U. J. J. Leverrier's claim that there may be an intermercurial planet.
Asks JH about two publications: [Felix Eberty's anonymous] The Stars and the Earth and J. C. Maxwell's theory of compound colors, WW recommending the latter.