Draft letter, from Sir John Herschel to Jean Baptiste Biot, dated at Cambridge

Reference number: HS/4/87

Date: 25 April 1820

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Draft letter. Fears that a letter written to him in November may not have reached him. Will send him a copy of his paper of colors. A Philosophical Society has been formed at Cambridge.

Reference number: HS/4/87
Earliest possible date: 25 April 1820
Page extent: 2 pages
Format: Manuscript
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John Frederick William Herschel

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John Frederick William Herschel, Draft letter, from Sir John Herschel to Jean Baptiste Biot, dated at Cambridge, 25 April 1820, HS/4/87, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/hs_4_87/draft-letter-from-sir-john-herschel-to-jean-baptiste-biot-dated-at-cambridge, accessed on 09 February 2026

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Copy of draft letter, from Sir John Herschel to Jean Baptiste Biot, dated at Cambridge
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This collection of nearly 10,900 letters, drafts, copies and notes is the largest repository of scientific correspondence from and to Sir John Herschel, leading figure of Victorian science.

Dates: 1807 - 1875

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