Copy letter, from Sir John Herschel to Wilhelm Struve, dated at Collingwood

Reference number: HS/22/96

Date: 10 October 1841

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Copy of a letter. Thanks Wilhelm Struve for Pulkowa Medal. Problematic health and large family make visit to Wilhelm Struve impossible. Mentions [Francis] Baily's hope of terminating 'Cavendish experiment.' Sends copy of 'Revision of Southern Constellations.'

Reference number: HS/22/96
Earliest possible date: 10 October 1841
Page extent: 4 pages
Format: Manuscript
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John Frederick William Herschel

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John Frederick William Herschel, Copy letter, from Sir John Herschel to Wilhelm Struve, dated at Collingwood, 10 October 1841, HS/22/96, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/hs_22_96/copy-letter-from-sir-john-herschel-to-wilhelm-struve-dated-at-collingwood, accessed on 17 June 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 22 Copies of outgoing letters
1873-1875 Reference number: HS/22

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Friedrich Georg Wilhelm Struve
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Dates: 1807 - 1875

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