Letter from to Sir John Frederick William Herschel, Collingwood, Hawkhurst, Kent, to the Chairman of the Committee of Physics, Royal Society
Reference number: MC/4/32
Date: 12 June 1844
Description
Forwarding a letter from Sabine proposing an excursion from the Cape of Good Hope in order to complete magnetical observations between specific meridians. Herschel includes his own opinion on the matter.
[The enclosed letter is MC/4/31 within the volume.]
[Read at Council on 13 June 1844.]
- Reference number
- MC/4/32
- Earliest possible date
- 12 June 1844
- Page extent
- 4 pages
- Format
- Manuscript
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John Frederick William Herschel, Letter from to Sir John Frederick William Herschel, Collingwood, Hawkhurst, Kent, to the Chairman of the Committee of Physics, Royal Society, 12 June 1844, MC/4/32, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/mc_4_32/letter-from-to-sir-john-frederick-william-herschel-collingwood-hawkhurst-kent-to-the-chairman-of-the-committee-of-physics-royal-society, accessed on 07 October 2026
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