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Please cite as “Herschel12258,” in Ɛpsilon: The Sir John Herschel Collection accessed on 28 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/herschel/letters/Herschel12258
JH may recall meeting him at the Cape in March 1836. Now had a query regarding the size and limits of zodiacal light. Quotes case of errors in observations made by the Captain and Mate of a ship on which RN was returning from the Cape. Has now retired from the service.
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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