Letter from John Frederick William Herschel, Collingwood to Edward Sabine
Reference number: MS/257/2/289
Date: 29 April 1864
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Herschel hoped to attend Sabine's soiree but has influenza. Herschel praises Sabine's report on Mr McClintock's magnetic observations at Port Barrow. Refers to the solar diurnal deviation. Herschel hopes Mrs [Elizabeth Juliana Leeves] Sabine is recovered from her illness.
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- MS/257/2/289
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- 29 April 1864
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- Ink on paper
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- 3 pages
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John Frederick William Herschel, Letter from John Frederick William Herschel, Collingwood to Edward Sabine, 29 April 1864, MS/257/2/289, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/ms_257_2_289/letter-from-john-frederick-william-herschel-collingwood-to-edward-sabine, accessed on 22 April 2025
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