Royal College of Chemistry | 315 Oxford Street | April 16th 62
My dear Sir
Your welcome letter has reached me safely here this morning and it cannot fail to be the most valuable assistance that I shall receive to further my suit at the Andersonian Institution.2 I have requested Messrs Groombridge and Sons3 to send to you at the Museum of Practical Geology a copy of their April number of the ‘Intellectual Observer’4 in which they published a short account of observations on the heights of meteors and shooting stars made by united amateurs and professional observers last August, which I hope you will accept, with much gratitude,
from | yours very faithfully | Alexr S. Herschel.
RI MS JT/1/H/81
Alexander Stewart Herschel: (1836–1907). Astronomer, son of John F. W. Herschel.
Andersonian Institution: technical college based in Glasgow, Scotland founded in 1796, also known (from 1828) as Anderson’s University.
Messrs Groombridge and Sons: London–based publisher.
Intellectual Observer: The full title was Intellectual Observer: A Record and Remembrancer of Intellectual Observation in the Various Branches of Physical Science.
Please cite as “Tyndall1883,” in Ɛpsilon: The John Tyndall Collection accessed on