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Draft letter from Humphrey Lloyd, London, to John Herschel

Reference number: MC/3/47

Date: 30 October 1839

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Containing Lloyd's report on the cooperation with Russian and German observatories. This involves collaboration with [Adolph Theodor] Kupffer regarding the observatories in St. Petersburg and Barnaoul. Lloyd references multiple collaborators at institutions in Munich, Breslau, Prague, and Milan.

[The last two pages are on a separate sheet, labelled within the volume as MC/3/47a.]

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MC/3/47
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30 October 1839
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6 pages
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Manuscript

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Humphrey Lloyd

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Humphrey Lloyd, Draft letter from Humphrey Lloyd, London, to John Herschel, 30 October 1839, MC/3/47, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/mc_3_47/draft-letter-from-humphrey-lloyd-london-to-john-herschel, accessed on 09 March 2026

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