The transcript of this letter is not available online on Ɛpsilon.
Please cite as “Herschel9897,” in Ɛpsilon: The Sir John Herschel Collection accessed on 29 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/herschel/letters/Herschel9897
His letter has been forwarded. JH's correspondence with the Mint to which J. G. Hubbard refers has been published in the Report of the Commissioners on International Coinage 1868. Thinks expansion of mercurial amalgam is due to hydrogen. Hopes JH will accept a small medallion.
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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