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Letter from Sir John F.W. Herschel, Collingwood, to the Royal Society

Reference number: MC/3/306

Date: 19 October 1843

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Requesting to relinquish the grant of £100 from the Wollaston Fund for the construction of an instrument for photographic research. Herschel gives details of his original plan and the loss of progress due to prohibitive costs and the employment of local workmen.
[Matter discussed by Council on 19 October 1843.]
[The second and third page of the letter are on a separate sheet, with the fourth page being on the reverse of the first. The separate sheet is labelled within the volume as MC/3/306a.]

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MC/3/306
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19 October 1843
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4 pages
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John Frederick William Herschel

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John Frederick William Herschel, Letter from Sir John F.W. Herschel, Collingwood, to the Royal Society, 19 October 1843, MC/3/306, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/mc_3_306/letter-from-sir-john-fw-herschel-collingwood-to-the-royal-society, accessed on 15 April 2026

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