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From:
Michael Faraday
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
1 December 1846
Source of text:
RGO 6/227, f.476
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
No summary available.
Asks a number of questions that need answers before considering the purchase of a large new telescope for the Royal Observatory.
Seeking information to help JH prepare an obituary notice, for the R.A.S., of F. W. Bessel.
Sends some books in response to JH's request for information about F. W. Bessel [see JH's 1846-12-20]; GA's daughter Hilda is very ill.
Lists the contents of a parcel being sent.
Domestic news. Further regarding telescopes and slow motion in declination.