The transcript of this letter is not available online on Ɛpsilon.
Please cite as “Herschel2852,” in Ɛpsilon: The Sir John Herschel Collection accessed on 18 January 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/herschel/letters/Herschel2852
Expresses his approval of James Ross's Antarctic survey, providing some of the details of it and his determination of the south magnetic pole. Gives details of Ross's plans.
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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