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Letter, from Francis Cranmer Penrose to Sir John Herschel, dated at Cathedral Surveyor's Office, St Paul's

Reference number: HS/13/334

Date: July 1864

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Autograph letter signed by sender. Is sending John Frederick William Herschel a paper on standardization of measurement, using decimalization but not the meter.

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HS/13/334
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July 1864
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4 pages
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Manuscript
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Francis Cranmer Penrose

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Francis Cranmer Penrose, Letter, from Francis Cranmer Penrose to Sir John Herschel, dated at Cathedral Surveyor's Office, St Paul's, July 1864, HS/13/334, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/hs_13_334/letter-from-francis-cranmer-penrose-to-sir-john-herschel-dated-at-cathedral-surveyors-office-st-pauls, accessed on 14 May 2026

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