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Letter, from Adam Sedgwick to Sir John Herschel, dated at Cambridge

Reference number: HS/15/446

Date: 17 December 1855

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Autograph letter signed by sender. Has John Frederick William Herschel received the second or third of Adam Sedgwick's Cambridge Paleozoic? Asks about William Whewell's pamphlets regarding the University. Describes trip to Scotland.

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HS/15/446
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17 December 1855
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4 pages
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Manuscript

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Adam Sedgwick

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Adam Sedgwick, Letter, from Adam Sedgwick to Sir John Herschel, dated at Cambridge, 17 December 1855, HS/15/446, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/hs_15_446/letter-from-adam-sedgwick-to-sir-john-herschel-dated-at-cambridge, accessed on 02 December 2024

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