Letter, from James David Forbes to Sir John Herschel, dated at Locarno

Reference number: HS/7/279

Date: 2 October 1832

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Autograph letter signed by sender. Has postponed answering his letter until he has some worthwhile results to transmit. Local savants are unwilling to take much trouble but has met a German meteorologist, L. F. Kämtz, and together they have carried out observations on some of the mountains. Encloses some of the actinometer readings. Has 80 series of magnetic observations.

Reference number: HS/7/279
Earliest possible date: 2 October 1832
Page extent: 4 pages
Format: Manuscript
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James David Forbes, Letter, from James David Forbes to Sir John Herschel, dated at Locarno, 2 October 1832, HS/7/279, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/hs_7_279/letter-from-james-david-forbes-to-sir-john-herschel-dated-at-locarno, accessed on 25 March 2025

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Correspondence of Sir John Frederick William Herschel
1812-1870 Creator: Sir; John Frederick William Herschel Reference number: HS
Correspondence of John Frederick William Herschel: volume 7 Eardley Wilmot-F
1820-1871 Reference number: HS/7

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