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Copy of letter, copied as part of the correspondence project led by Colonel John Herschel FRS following the death of his father. Thanks George Gabriel Stokes for a number of his papers on railway bridge fractures, gravitation, and the spectrum.

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HS/25/10/1
Earliest possible date
13 November 1849
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1 page
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 George Gabriel Stokes, dated at Collingwood, 13 November 1849, HS/25/10/1, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/hs_25_10_1/copy-letter-from-sir-john-herschel-to-george-gabriel-stokes-dated-at-collingwood, accessed on 07 February 2025

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