The transcript of this letter is not available online on Ɛpsilon.
Please cite as “Herschel3977,” in Ɛpsilon: The Sir John Herschel Collection accessed on 7 May 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/herschel/letters/Herschel3977
JH describes his sweeps of Scorpio. Writes that the Milky Way is 'extremely curious and interesting.' Has collected a large catalog of southern nebulae, many never before detected. JH's search for Halley's Comet has been unsuccessful thus far.
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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