Record

RefNoMC/3/306
LevelItem
TitleLetter from Sir John F.W. Herschel, Collingwood, to the Royal Society
Date19 October 1843
DescriptionRequesting to relinquish the grant of £100 from the Wollaston Fund for the construction of an instrument for photographic research. Herschel gives details of his original plan and the loss of progress due to prohibitive costs and the employment of local workmen.
[Matter discussed by Council on 19 October 1843.]
[The second and third page of the letter are on a separate sheet, with the fourth page being on the reverse of the first. The separate sheet is labelled within the volume as MC/3/306a.]
Extent4p
FormatManuscript
AccessStatusOpen
RelatedRecordCMP/1/174
URLAlso available on Epsilon: https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/herschel/letters/Herschel3368
Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA8238Herschel; Sir; John Frederick William (1792 - 1871); astronomer1792 - 1871
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