Letter from John Frederick William Herschel, Collingwood to Edward Sabine
Reference number: MS/257/2/275
Date: 31 July 1848
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Herschel cannot give his support for an application to the government ‘to take on itself the support of the Kew Observatory’ as he believes the Observatory will be ineffective if it is not the private observatory of the British Association. Therefore, Herschel wishes not to attend a meeting to draw up an application for government support. However, he approves of the committee revising the report.
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- MS/257/2/275
- Earliest possible date
- 31 July 1848
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- Ink on paper
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- 2 pages
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John Frederick William Herschel, Letter from John Frederick William Herschel, Collingwood to Edward Sabine, 31 July 1848, MS/257/2/275, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/ms_257_2_275/letter-from-john-frederick-william-herschel-collingwood-to-edward-sabine, accessed on 22 April 2025
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John Frederick William Herschel
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Science in the Making presents selected items from the 'Manuscripts General' series, notably astronomical observations, investigations of discrete topics, and indices and registers of papers read before the Royal Society.
Dates: 1551 - 1951
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