Has requested of Admiralty £485 for equatorial telescope, from Merz in Munich, for Cape of Good Hope Observatory. Ask JH to estimate cost for 'next year's Estimates.'
Letter details
Record number
Herschel14770
From
William A. Baillie-Hamilton
To
George Biddell Airy
Date
[6 December 1845]
Sent from
Admiralty
Source of text
TxU:H/M-0996.1; Reel 1083
Physical description
C 1p
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