Stuk 79 - Letter from John Herschel

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Collingwood - JH is familiar with the action of air and light on the sulphuret of lead. He has taken service in the Royal Commission on the Universities: 'if moderate men and well disposed to the Universities were all to decline, the alternative must be the appointment of people not so disposed - to the great detriment of the cause of sound principles and learning'.