The transcript of this letter is not available online on Ɛpsilon.
Please cite as “Herschel1983,” in Ɛpsilon: The Sir John Herschel Collection accessed on 27 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/herschel/letters/Herschel1983
Replies to JH's inquiries about Messier 80, noting that a bright star, since vanished, obliterated the cluster. Describes poor but improving instrumentation at the Madras Observatory. Asks about JH's son Alexander.
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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