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Letter, from George Phillips Bond to Sir John Herschel, dated at Cambridge, [Mass.]

Reference number: HS/4/179

Date: October 1862

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Autograph letter signed by sender. Forwarding account of the great comet of 1858. Regarding illustrations for astronomical monographs. Includes several publications of Harvard Observatory.

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HS/4/179
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October 1862
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2 pages
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Manuscript

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George Phillips Bond

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George Phillips Bond, Letter, from George Phillips Bond to Sir John Herschel, dated at Cambridge, [Mass.], October 1862, HS/4/179, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/hs_4_179/letter-from-george-phillips-bond-to-sir-john-herschel-dated-at-cambridge-mass, accessed on 04 December 2024

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