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Thanks for suggestion of gold plating the telescope mirrors. Mentions idea of mounting a reflector horizontally but finds its execution 'insufferable'. Thanks for work on photometric measurement of light of stars. Disagrees on some results. Encloses new photographic specimens.
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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