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Letter, from James David Forbes to Sir John Herschel, dated at Trinity Lodge, Cambridge

Reference number: HS/7/310

Date: 29 May 1849

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Autograph letter signed by sender. Regarding the possibility of a new edition of John Frederick William Herschel's Treatise Astr. originally published in Lardner's Cyclopaedia. Has found it very useful for his students.

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HS/7/310
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29 May 1849
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4 pages
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James David Forbes, James David Forbes, Letter, from James David Forbes to Sir John Herschel, dated at Trinity Lodge, Cambridge, 29 May 1849, HS/7/310, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/hs_7_310/letter-from-james-david-forbes-to-sir-john-herschel-dated-at-trinity-lodge-cambridge, accessed on 18 January 2026

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