Letter from Sir John F W [Frederick William] Herschel, Collingwood, to the Marquis of Northampton, [President of the Royal Society]
Reference number: MC/3/291
Date: 21 June 1843
Description
Updating the Council on the current state of the Cape Observation and deficiencies that need to be corrected, including for the observation of the Great Comet in March 1843. He offers an overview of the instruments and the types of repairs needed, including for his father's Newtonian reflector.
[Council to re-equip the observatory in cooperation with Admiralty, see related records.]
[The last four pages are on a separate sheet, labelled within the volume as MC/3/291a.]
- Reference number
- MC/3/291
- Earliest possible date
- 21 June 1843
- Page extent
- 8 pages
- Format
- Manuscript
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John Frederick William Herschel, Letter from Sir John F W [Frederick William] Herschel, Collingwood, to the Marquis of Northampton, [President of the Royal Society], 21 June 1843, MC/3/291, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/mc_3_291/letter-from-sir-john-f-w-frederick-william-herschel-collingwood-to-the-marquis-of-northampton-president-of-the-royal-society, accessed on 15 May 2026
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John Frederick William Herschel
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Spencer Joshua Alwyne Compton
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