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

Reference number: HS/7/305

Date: 23 January 1843

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Autograph letter signed by sender. Is grateful for his letter and photographs. Will send him his paper on glaciers, which he is pleased to see interests him. Thomas Brisbane must be in error about the refusal of the Royal Society of Edinburgh to print his magnetic observations.

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HS/7/305
Earliest possible date
23 January 1843
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2 pages
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Manuscript

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James David Forbes

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James David Forbes, Letter, from James David Forbes to Sir John Herschel, dated at Edinburgh, 23 January 1843, HS/7/305, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/hs_7_305/letter-from-james-david-forbes-to-sir-john-herschel-dated-at-edinburgh, accessed on 25 March 2025

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