Copy letter, from Sir John Herschel to James P. Murchison, dated at Collingwood
Reference number: HS/25/7/6
Date: 23 March 1847
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Copy of letter, copied as part of the correspondence project led by Colonel John Herschel FRS following the death of his father. Thanks James P. Murchison for a copy of the Correspondence of the Late J. Watt. In commenting on it, John Frederick William Herschel discusses at some length the doctrine of phlogiston as it relates to the discovery of the composition of water.
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- HS/25/7/6
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- 23 March 1847
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- 4 pages
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John Frederick William Herschel, Copy letter, from Sir John Herschel to James P. Murchison, dated at Collingwood, 23 March 1847, HS/25/7/6, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/hs_25_7_6/copy-letter-from-sir-john-herschel-to-james-p-murchison-dated-at-collingwood, accessed on 08 December 2025
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This item is part of:
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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. 7, from 27 September 1846 to March 23 1847
1873 Creator: John Frederick William Herschel , John Herschel Reference number: HS/25/7
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Dates: 1807 - 1875
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