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
Remarks on JH's Southern astronomy volume [Cape Results].
Will forward copies of JH's Cape Results to recipients in Denmark.
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."
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.
Will distribute copies [of JH's Cape Results] if JH will forward them to French embassy.
Thanks from curators of Durham Observatory for Cape Results.