From:
Caroline Lucretia Herschel
To:
Carl Friedrich Gauss
Date:
[3 April 1833]
Source of text:
RS:HS 21.133
Summary:
Sends on a copy of JH's orbital elements for Gamma Virginis.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
Sends on a copy of JH's orbital elements for Gamma Virginis.
Unable to visit, but has sent two papers on the orbits of double stars. Discusses double stars, noting that four double stars are now known to orbit with periods less than a century long. Wilhelm Olbers is seriously ill.
Informs CG of the awarding to CG of the Copley medal for CG's magnetic researches; hopes that the British government will support such magnetic researches around globe.
Comments on CG's paper on the south magnetic pole, and on British efforts now underway to make magnetic observations.