Comments on inaccuracies in earlier Southern Hemisphere star catalogues, along with an extended description of comet observations.
Letter details
Record number
Herschel12485
From
Sir John Herschel
To
Hugh Percy (3rd Duke of Northumberland)
Date
[25 November 1836]
Sent from
Feldhausen
Source of text
RS:HS 13.351 & 21.214
Physical description
draft 4pp
Additional information
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