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Draft letter. Would not like to become President and shirk the duties it involves, but if the Royal Astronomical Society cannot find someone else for the President then he will consent to let his name go forward. Has had a letter from W. H. Smyth on the same subject.

Reference number
HS/6/231
Earliest possible date
4 December 1846
Page extent
3 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 Augustus De Morgan, 4 December 1846, HS/6/231, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/hs_6_231/draft-letter-from-sir-john-herschel-to-augustus-de-morgan, accessed on 01 December 2024

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