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Letter, from Robert Hunt to Sir John Herschel, dated at Falmouth

Reference number: HS/10/111

Date: 1 May 1844

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Autograph letter signed by sender. Thanks John Frederick William Herschel for the application [HS/10/110]. It would be a great relief to him to "procure a presentation for either of my children". Succeeded in experiments demonstrating the absorption of the chemical action of the sunlight. This will show chemists "that the results of well conducted analysis are materially different, accordingly as they are obtained by day or artificial light

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HS/10/111
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1 May 1844
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2 pages
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Robert Hunt

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Robert Hunt, Letter, from Robert Hunt to Sir John Herschel, dated at Falmouth, 1 May 1844, HS/10/111, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/hs_10_111/letter-from-robert-hunt-to-sir-john-herschel-dated-at-falmouth, accessed on 25 March 2025

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    Dates: 1807 - 1875

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