Copy letter, from Sir John Herschel to Georg Adolph Erman, dated at Collingwood
Reference number: HS/25/7/7
Date: 12 October 1870
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Contemporary copy in sender's hand, signed by sender. Corrects a misunderstanding about the date to which magnetic observations are to be reduced.
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- HS/25/7/7
- Earliest possible date
- 12 October 1870
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- 1 page
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- Manuscript
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John Frederick William Herschel, Copy letter, from Sir John Herschel to Georg Adolph Erman, dated at Collingwood, 12 October 1870, HS/25/7/7, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/hs_25_7_7/copy-letter-from-sir-john-herschel-to-georg-adolph-erman-dated-at-collingwood, accessed on 23 January 2026
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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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John Frederick William Herschel
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Georg Adolf Erman
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Dates: 1807 - 1875
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