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Reference numberMC/6/210
LevelItem
TitleLetter from J F W [John Frederick William] Herschel, Collingwood, to Professor [George Gabriel] Stokes, Secretary of the Royal Society
Date3 March 1862
DescriptionRegarding Herschel's work in collecting, reducing, and arranging a general index catalogue of the places of all the nebulae and clusters of stars. This is based on observations by his father [William Herschel] and him.
Extent4p
FormatManuscript
Access statusOpen
URLAlso available on Epsilon: https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/herschel/letters/Herschel3604
Fellows associated with this archive
CodeNameDates
NA8238Herschel; Sir; John Frederick William (1792 - 1871); astronomer1792 - 1871
NA8283Stokes; Sir; George Gabriel (1819 - 1903); physicist1819 - 1903
NA8060Herschel; Sir; William (1738 - 1822); astronomer1738 - 1822
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