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Draft letter, from Sir John Herschel to Woronzow Greig, dated at Collingwood

Reference number: HS/9/38

Date: 2 August 1856

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Draft letter. Returns Mary Somerville's note and the papers. Does not feel competent to give his opinion on the papers as a whole as there are parts outside his field of study. Comments on some of the points raised, and on the whole he disagrees with the conclusions of the papers.

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HS/9/38
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2 August 1856
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7 pages
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Manuscript
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John Frederick William Herschel

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John Frederick William Herschel, Draft letter, from Sir John Herschel to Woronzow Greig, dated at Collingwood, 2 August 1856, HS/9/38, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/hs_9_38/draft-letter-from-sir-john-herschel-to-woronzow-greig-dated-at-collingwood, accessed on 13 August 2026

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