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Incomplete copy letter, from Sir John Herschel to Edward Sabine, dated at [Slough]

Reference number: HS/15/75

Date: 16 December 1839

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Contemporary copy in sender's hand, signed by sender, incomplete. Declines to take steps to call a special committee or council meeting of the Royal Society [of London] regarding foreign communications of the observatories, noting his own wish to stay out

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HS/15/75
Earliest possible date
16 December 1839
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1 page
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Manuscript
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John Frederick William Herschel

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John Frederick William Herschel, Incomplete copy letter, from Sir John Herschel to Edward Sabine, dated at [Slough], 16 December 1839, HS/15/75, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/hs_15_75/incomplete-copy-letter-from-sir-john-herschel-to-edward-sabine-dated-at-slough, accessed on 25 April 2025

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