Item 44 - Letter from John Herschel

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Add. MS a/207/44

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Letter from John Herschel

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  • 12 Apr. [1840] (Creation)

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3 pp

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Slough - JH playing on WW's enthusiasm for hexameters. Edward Sabine has proposed to spend £520 of the British Association's grant on a portable declination magnetometer on Weber's construction to send to [James Reddie?]. Have WW and Peacock anyread more

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