The transcript of this letter is not available online on Ɛpsilon.
Please cite as “Herschel9048,” in Ɛpsilon: The Sir John Herschel Collection accessed on 20 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/herschel/letters/Herschel9048
Comments favorably on a method developed by WW for designating the faces of crystals. Presents a method JH had worked out previously, but writes on the letter: 'Not sent—On rereading his letter I find it is his idea—strange!'
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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