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Letter from John Frederick William Herschel, 37 Tavistock Place to [James Clark] Ross

Reference number: MS/257/2/272

Date: 5 May 1847

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Herschel speculates on a name for Ross’s 'hot and cold basins' giving examples and discusses the causes of equatorial heat and polar cold. Herschel proposes the ‘circles of deep-sea temperature’ and asks Ross’s opinion.

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MS/257/2/272
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5 May 1847
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Ink on paper
Page extent
4 pages
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Manuscript

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John Frederick William Herschel

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John Frederick William Herschel, Letter from John Frederick William Herschel, 37 Tavistock Place to [James Clark] Ross, 5 May 1847, MS/257/2/272, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/ms_257_2_272/letter-from-john-frederick-william-herschel-37-tavistock-place-to-james-clark-ross, accessed on 21 January 2026

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