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Copy of a letter, from John Frederick William Herschel, Collingwood to the Committee of Physics

Reference number: HS/25/7/3

Date: 11 November 1846

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Contemporary copy in Herschel's hand.

Herschel was unable to attend the committee meeting to consider recommendations for the Royal Medal, elaborates reasons for thinking Edward Sabine's memoirs on terrestrial magnetism are worthy of the award.

Reference number
HS/25/7/3
Earliest possible date
11 November 1846
Physical description
Ink on paper.
Page extent
3 pages.
Format
Manuscript

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John Frederick William Herschel

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John Frederick William Herschel, Copy of a letter, from John Frederick William Herschel, Collingwood to the Committee of Physics, 11 November 1846, HS/25/7/3, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/hs_25_7_3/copy-of-a-letter-from-john-frederick-william-herschel-collingwood-to-the-committee-of-physics, accessed on 10 November 2025

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