| Reference number | MC/3/291 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Letter from Sir John F.W. Herschel, Collingwood, to the Marquis of Northampton, [President of the Royal Society] |
| Date | 21 June 1843 |
| Description | Updating the Council on the current state of the Cape Observation and deficencies that need to be corrected, including for the observation of the Great Comet in March 1843. He offers an overview of the instruments and the types of repairs needed, including for his father's Newtonian reflector.
[Council to re-equip the observatory in cooperation with Admiralty.]
[The last four pages are on a separate sheet, labelled within the volume as MC/3/291a.] |
| Extent | 8p |
| Format | Manuscript |
| Access status | Open |
| Related records in the catalogue | CMP/1/173 |
| MC/3/296 |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | Name | Dates |
| NA8238 | Herschel; Sir; John Frederick William (1792 - 1871); astronomer | 1792 - 1871 |
| NA2272 | Compton; Spencer Joshua Alwyne (1790 - 1851); 2nd Marquess of Northampton | 1790 - 1851 |