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Add. MS a/204/56
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James David Forbes to William Whewell
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- 18 Mar. 1844 (Creation)
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4 pp
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Rome - JDF is pleased he decided to spend the winter abroad, and praises his Edinburgh colleagues (Thomas Henderson and Philip Kelland) who offered to fill in for him while he was absent. At Naples he saw small scale continual eruption within the crater of Vesuvius: 'I saw lava flowing and had an opportunity of comparing it in various states with the conditions of a glacier'. His findings are generally favourable to his glacier theory and he has communicated his observations in a letter to the Royal Society of Edinburgh.
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- Henderson, Thomas (1798-1844) astronomer (Subject)
- Kelland, Philip (1808–1879) mathematician (Subject)