The transcript of this letter is not available online on Ɛpsilon.
Please cite as “Herschel1079,” in Ɛpsilon: The Sir John Herschel Collection accessed on 11 May 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/herschel/letters/Herschel1079
Believes that rather than asking the government for more money to continue making magnetic observations, the six years of observations should be studied to see if further observations can be justified.
Record created for the Calendar of the Correspondence of Sir John Herschel (CUP: Cambridge), 1998 by Michael J. Crowe ed., David R. Dyck and James J. Kevin assoc. eds
Digital record created by Dr Marvin Bolt and Steven Lucy at the Webster Institute of the Adler Planetarium
Converted to TEI by Michael Hawkins, Epsilon Project, Cambridge University Library
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