Item 117 - Letter from Henry Brougham

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Letter from Henry Brougham

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  • 26 July 1847 (Creation)

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Thanks WW for his kind letter and hopes he really can do something for him [one of the candidates for the Professorship at St. Andrews in Natural Philosophy]. The evidence [for the discovery of Neptune] is decisively in favour of John Couch Adams.

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