The transcript of this letter is not available online on Ɛpsilon.
Please cite as “Herschel4147,” in Ɛpsilon: The Sir John Herschel Collection accessed on 28 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/herschel/letters/Herschel4147
Thanks JH for meteorological observations and tells how he will apply them to predictions for Calcutta. Describes need to correct barometer observations. Compiles and compares barometer reading from points of India and Central Asia. Thanks JH for double star observations, which he sends to Madras Observatory.
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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