Letter, from Sir John Herschel to Georg Merz & Son, dated at Collingwood
Reference number: HS/25/6/18
Date: 2 September 1843
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Autograph letter signed by sender. Is inquiring, on behalf of the Admiralty, about ordering an equatorially mounted achromatic telescope for the Royal Observatory at the Cape of Good Hope.
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- HS/25/6/18
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- 2 September 1843
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- 4 pages
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- Manuscript
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John Frederick William Herschel, Letter, from Sir John Herschel to Georg Merz & Son, dated at Collingwood, 2 September 1843, HS/25/6/18, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/hs_25_6_18/letter-from-sir-john-herschel-to-georg-merz-son-dated-at-collingwood, accessed on 12 February 2026
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Correspondence of Sir John Frederick William Herschel
1812-1870 Creator: 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 -
Copy book of Sir John Herschel's outgoing correspondence, vol. 6, from 3 March 1840 to 27 September 1846
1873 Creator: John Frederick William Herschel , John Herschel Reference number: HS/25/6
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Dates: 1807 - 1875
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