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Letter, from D[aniel] Mackintosh to Sir John Herschel, dated at Malvern Link

Reference number: HS/13/7

Date: 11 September 1866

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Autograph letter signed by sender. Has been travelling around lecturing on geology since he left the London Polytechnic in 1861. Wishes that someone like John Frederick William Herschel would consider geological features from a dynamical point of view.

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HS/13/7
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11 September 1866
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3 pages
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Manuscript

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Daniel Mackintosh

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Daniel Mackintosh, Letter, from D[aniel] Mackintosh to Sir John Herschel, dated at Malvern Link, 11 September 1866, HS/13/7, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/hs_13_7/letter-from-daniel-mackintosh-to-sir-john-herschel-dated-at-malvern-link, accessed on 09 August 2026

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