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Letter, from [Osborne?] Turner to Sir John Herschel, dated at Bristol

Reference number: HS/17/450

Date: 21 November 1868

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Letter. Requests permission to include extract from Prelim. Discourse in The Sixth English Reading Book.

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HS/17/450
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21 November 1868
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2 pages
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Manuscript

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Osborne Turner

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Osborne Turner, Letter, from [Osborne?] Turner to Sir John Herschel, dated at Bristol, 21 November 1868, HS/17/450, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/hs_17_450/letter-from-osborne-turner-to-sir-john-herschel-dated-at-bristol, accessed on 17 December 2025

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