Copy letter, from Sir John Herschel to Edward Sabine, dated at Collingwood
Reference number: HS/23/322
Date: 20 December 1860
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Copy of a letter. Thanks for declination readings from photograms at Kew. Thinks meteorological observatory on Vesuvius is good idea, but not sure a magnetic one is. Includes two charts of world.
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- HS/23/322
- Earliest possible date
- 20 December 1860
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- 1 page
- Format
- Manuscript
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John Frederick William Herschel, Copy letter, from Sir John Herschel to Edward Sabine, dated at Collingwood, 20 December 1860, HS/23/322, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/hs_23_322/copy-letter-from-sir-john-herschel-to-edward-sabine-dated-at-collingwood, accessed on 22 April 2025
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Correspondence of Sir John Frederick William Herschel
1812-1870 Creator: Sir; John Frederick William Herschel Reference number: HS -
Correspondence of John Frederick William Herschel: volume 23 Copies of outgoing letters
1873-1875 Reference number: HS/23
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John Frederick William Herschel
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Edward Sabine
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Dates: 1807 - 1875
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