RefNo | HS/12/308 |
Level | Item |
Title | Letter, from Matthew Fontaine Maury to Sir John Herschel, dated at Observatory, Washington |
Creator | Maury; Matthew Fontaine (1806–73); American oceanographer; naval officer; superintendent of the Hydrographic Office. |
Date | 10 June 1859 |
Description | Autograph letter signed by sender. Thanks for John Frederick William Herschel's article on Physical Geography from the new edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica. Comments on this and gives details of some of his own researches into the causes of ocean currents. |
Language | English |
Extent | 21pp |
Format | Manuscript |
Place origin | Naval Observatory, Washington, United States |
Origin coordinates | 38.921389, A77.066944 |
AccessStatus | Open |
URLDescription | Also available on Epsilon |
URL | https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/herschel/letters/Herschel11946
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Fellows associated with this archive
Code | PersonName | Dates |
NA8238 | Herschel; Sir; John Frederick William (1792 - 1871); astronomer | 1792 - 1871 |