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Letter, from Roderick Impey Murchison to Sir John Herschel, dated at Buxton

Reference number: HS/12/415

Date: 30 August 1846

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Autograph letter signed by sender. Thanks for his letter and C. F. Schönbein's. Will go on board the Excellent via rail to Gosport. Encloses what he has written on Michael Faraday for John Frederick William Herschel's amendments. Regarding the dinners at the meeting.

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HS/12/415
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30 August 1846
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3 pages
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Manuscript

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Roderick Impey Murchison

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Roderick Impey Murchison, Letter, from Roderick Impey Murchison to Sir John Herschel, dated at Buxton, 30 August 1846, HS/12/415, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/hs_12_415/letter-from-roderick-impey-murchison-to-sir-john-herschel-dated-at-buxton, accessed on 10 September 2026

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