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
Description
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.
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- HS/25/7/3
- Earliest possible date
- 11 November 1846
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- Ink on paper.
- Page extent
- 3 pages.
- Format
- Manuscript
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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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