RefNo | HS/12/422 |
Level | Item |
Title | Letter, from Sir John Herschel to Roderick Impey Murchison, dated at Collingwood |
Creator | John Frederick William Herschel |
Date | 24 April 1859 |
Description | Autograph letter signed by sender, with diagrams. Comments on Robert Stephenson's theory regarding the presence of fossil plants in Arctic regions and on possible astronomical causes of such fossilization; gives some of his own theories. |
Language | English |
Extent | 4pp |
Format | Manuscript |
Place origin | Collingwood, Hawkhurst, Kent |
Origin coordinates | 51.035306, 0.513556 |
AccessStatus | Open |
RelatedMaterial | HS/23/263 |
RelatedRecord | HS/23/263 |
URLDescription | Also available on Epsilon |
URL | https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/herschel/letters/Herschel12056
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Fellows associated with this archive
Code | PersonName | Dates |
NA8238 | Herschel; Sir; John Frederick William (1792 - 1871); astronomer | 1792 - 1871 |
NA8081 | Murchison; Sir; Roderick Impey (1792 - 1871); geologist and geographer | 1792 - 1871 |