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Copy of a letter. Thanks Rudolf Wolf for sending copies of Rudolf Wolf's memoir on John Frederick William Herschel's father. States that John Frederick William Herschel has now revised a catalogue of all John Frederick William Herschel's father's double stars.

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HS/24/202
Earliest possible date
7 July 1867
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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, Copy letter, from Sir John Herschel to Rudolf Wolf, dated at Collingwood, 7 July 1867, HS/24/202, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/hs_24_202/copy-letter-from-sir-john-herschel-to-rudolf-wolf-dated-at-collingwood, accessed on 06 December 2025

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