The transcript of this letter is not available online on Ɛpsilon.
Please cite as “Herschel8267,” in Ɛpsilon: The Sir John Herschel Collection accessed on 10 May 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/herschel/letters/Herschel8267
Intricate enquiries at Paramatta observatory are a waste of time. Instruments are not first class. Energy would be better spent cataloguing smaller magnitude stars and measuring double stars. Urges triangulation survey, important for Asian and Pacific geography, and investigation of weights and measures, to avoid litigation as Australia develops.
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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