The transcript of this letter is not available online on Ɛpsilon.
Please cite as “Herschel11758,” in Ɛpsilon: The Sir John Herschel Collection accessed on 14 May 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/herschel/letters/Herschel11758
Presents suggestions for improving and extending Land Station observatories. Will study parallax of Alpha1 and Alpha2 Centauri. Government will survey the colony. Quarantine due to measles outbreak. Boers hostile.
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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