Letter, from Norman Pogson to Sir John Herschel, dated at Hartwell, Aylesbury
Reference number: HS/14/3
Date: 3 April 1860
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Autograph letter signed by sender. Thanks John Frederick William Herschel for supporting his proposed method of designating variable stars, adding that G. B. Airy, J. R. Hind, and W. H. Smyth also accept it. Hopes to succeed M. J. Johnson as director of Oxford's Radcliffe Observatory.
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- HS/14/3
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- 3 April 1860
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- 8 pages
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- Manuscript
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Norman Robert Pogson, Letter, from Norman Pogson to Sir John Herschel, dated at Hartwell, Aylesbury, 3 April 1860, HS/14/3, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/hs_14_3/letter-from-norman-pogson-to-sir-john-herschel-dated-at-hartwell-aylesbury, accessed on 17 March 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 14 Pogson-R miscellaneous
1810-1871 Reference number: HS/14
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