The transcript of this letter is not available online on Ɛpsilon.
Please cite as “Herschel3468,” in Ɛpsilon: The Sir John Herschel Collection accessed on 12 October 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/herschel/letters/Herschel3468
Thanks to [Francis] Ronalds for supply of paper. Comments on ES's discovery about direction of change in earth's magnetism, relating it to sun's and other electric currents. In this light, discusses auroras. Mentions abolishing of R.S.L. scientific committees and possible successor to John Caldecott.
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
John Herschel Project[View Ɛpsilon collection]