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Letter, from William Radcliffe Birt to Sir John Herschel, dated at Bethnal Green

Reference number: HS/4/115

Date: 3 April 1847

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Autograph letter signed by sender. Is very grateful for his assistance and encloses the page of the report in which he publicly acknowledges this. Further results since the return of the great atmospheric wave of 1845.

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HS/4/115
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3 April 1847
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3 pages
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Manuscript

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William Radcliffe Birt

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William Radcliffe Birt, Letter, from William Radcliffe Birt to Sir John Herschel, dated at Bethnal Green, 3 April 1847, HS/4/115, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/hs_4_115/letter-from-william-radcliffe-birt-to-sir-john-herschel-dated-at-bethnal-green, accessed on 14 November 2025

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