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Copy letter, from Sir John Herschel to Roderick Impey Murchison, dated at Feldhausen

Reference number: HS/25/5/3

Date: 15 November 1836

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Contemporary copy in sender's hand, signed by sender. Some geological samples have been lost on the way to England; John Frederick William Herschel comments on his ideas of the effect of the earth's hot core on the construction of the earth's crust.

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HS/25/5/3
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15 November 1836
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4 pages
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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 Roderick Impey Murchison, dated at Feldhausen, 15 November 1836, HS/25/5/3, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/hs_25_5_3/copy-letter-from-sir-john-herschel-to-roderick-impey-murchison-dated-at-feldhausen, accessed on 18 July 2026

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