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Letter, from Charles Piazzi Smyth to Sir John Herschel, dated at Hillside Crescent, Edinburgh

Reference number: HS/16/227

Date: 5 September 1846

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Autograph letter signed by sender. Thanks John Frederick William Herschel for spotting error in a publication about the Edinburgh Observatory. Discusses 'the planet that is expected to be found beyond Uranus.' Asks John Frederick William Herschel to help him send astronomical news to Thomas Maclear.

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HS/16/227
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5 September 1846
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4 pages
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Charles Piazzi Smyth, Charles Piazzi Smyth, Letter, from Charles Piazzi Smyth to Sir John Herschel, dated at Hillside Crescent, Edinburgh, 5 September 1846, HS/16/227, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/hs_16_227/letter-from-charles-piazzi-smyth-to-sir-john-herschel-dated-at-hillside-crescent-edinburgh, accessed on 10 June 2026

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