Copy letter, from Sir John Herschel to Robert Hunt

Reference number: HS/25/14/15

Date: 1842-12-9 or later

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Copy of a letter. Is anxious for some means to be developed to get a measurable quantity [preferably by weight] from the action of a beam of light on a surface. John Frederick William Herschel has been experimenting in photography with 'flouric' compounds.

Reference number: HS/25/14/15
Earliest possible date: 1842-12-9 or later
Page extent: 2 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 Robert Hunt, 1842-12-9 or later, HS/25/14/15, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/hs_25_14_15/copy-letter-from-sir-john-herschel-to-robert-hunt, accessed on 25 March 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 25 Copies of outgoing letters
1873-1875 Reference number: HS/25
Copies of Sir John Herschel's letters to various correspondents with uncertain dates
1875 Creator: John Frederick William Herschel Reference number: HS/25/14

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John Frederick William Herschel
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Robert Hunt
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Herschel Letters

This collection of nearly 10,900 letters, drafts, copies and notes is the largest repository of scientific correspondence from and to Sir John Herschel, leading figure of Victorian science.

Dates: 1807 - 1875

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