Letter, from Robert Treat Paine to Sir John Herschel, dated at Boston, Mass.

Reference number: HS/13/209

Date: 24 May 1836

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Autograph letter signed by sender. Wonders if people at the Cape observed the large fall of meteors during the night of 12 Nov. 1833; comments on this and gives theories of one professor. John Frederick William Herschel's name was used for newspaper article on discoveries on the moon; the person responsible was R. A. Locke. Encloses one of his own memoirs on the eclipse.

Reference number: HS/13/209
Earliest possible date: 24 May 1836
Page extent: 3 pages
Format: Manuscript
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Robert Treat Paine, Letter, from Robert Treat Paine to Sir John Herschel, dated at Boston, Mass., 24 May 1836, HS/13/209, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/hs_13_209/letter-from-robert-treat-paine-to-sir-john-herschel-dated-at-boston-mass, accessed on 19 July 2026

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Correspondence of Sir John Frederick William Herschel
1812-1870 Creator: John Frederick William Herschel Reference number: HS
Correspondence of John Frederick William Herschel: volume 13 M miscellaneous-Plana
1812-1869 Reference number: HS/13

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Dates: 1807 - 1875

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