The transcript of this letter is not available online on Ɛpsilon.
Please cite as “Herschel2550,” in Ɛpsilon: The Sir John Herschel Collection accessed on 18 March 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/herschel/letters/Herschel2550
Praises AS for commencing his fifty-second course of lectures at age 84. Laments his own frailty. Recommends an array of meteorological books . Lists 'useful' meteorological instruments. Mentions family matters.
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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