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Copy letter, from James David Forbes to Sir John Herschel, dated at Edinburgh

Reference number: HS/7/289

Date: 25 October 1835

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Copy letter in John Herschel's hand. Unable to assist John Frederick William Herschel's friend Major [Abraham] Cloete as JF was away from home. Comments on results of John Frederick William Herschel's table and JF's own papers and scientific occupations. B.A.A.S. would welcome John Frederick William Herschel's ideas for meteorological work. S. D. Poisson has published a new work on heat, in which he attacks J. B. Fourier.

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HS/7/289
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25 October 1835
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4 pages
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James David Forbes, Copy letter, from James David Forbes to Sir John Herschel, dated at Edinburgh, 25 October 1835, HS/7/289, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/hs_7_289/copy-letter-from-james-david-forbes-to-sir-john-herschel-dated-at-edinburgh, accessed on 25 March 2025

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