Letter, from Thomas Galloway to Sir John Herschel, dated at Serjeants' Inn

Reference number: HS/8/25

Date: 14 December 1846

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Autograph letter signed by sender. Is obliged for his encouraging note. G. B. Airy has sent him two useful pamphlets on F. W. Bessel, which John Frederick William Herschel may care to see. Duties of the President of the Royal Astronomical Society should not prove too difficult as W. H. Smyth can do most of the duties.

Reference number: HS/8/25
Earliest possible date: 14 December 1846
Page extent: 4 pages
Format: Manuscript
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Thomas Galloway, Letter, from Thomas Galloway to Sir John Herschel, dated at Serjeants' Inn, 14 December 1846, HS/8/25, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/hs_8_25/letter-from-thomas-galloway-to-sir-john-herschel-dated-at-serjeants-inn, accessed on 13 May 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 8 Galbraith-J Grahame
1810-1870 Reference number: HS/8

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