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Letter, from [Charles] R[igobert Marie] Bonne to Sir John Herschel, dated at Paris

Reference number: HS/4/183

Date: 6 March 1825

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Autograph letter signed by sender. Edward Sabine's and John Frederick William Herschel's memoir on the differences of the meridian between Greenwich and Paris. Hopes to print a notice of the same operation with similar results. Operations last year between Paris and Brest were not a success so hopes to repeat them this year.

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HS/4/183
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6 March 1825
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Charles Rigobert Marie Bonne

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Charles Rigobert Marie Bonne, Letter, from [Charles] R[igobert Marie] Bonne to Sir John Herschel, dated at Paris, 6 March 1825, HS/4/183, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/hs_4_183/letter-from-charles-rigobert-marie-bonne-to-sir-john-herschel-dated-at-paris, accessed on 13 August 2026

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