<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<rdf:Description rdf:about="https://catalogues.royalsociety.org:443/CalmView/record/catalog/HS/12/161" xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">
  <dc:title>Letter, from Thomas Maclear to Sir John Herschel, dated at Royal Observatory, Cape of Good Hope</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Autograph letter signed by sender. Regrets to hear of the ill health of John Frederick William Herschel. Believes that a sea voyage to the Cape would work wonders. The transit circle is in full working order. Comments on some of the work connected with it. Has heard that an accident had occurred to William Parsons' (3rd Earl of Rosse) 6-foot speculum. No news of David Livingstone.</dc:description>
  <dc:date>23 February 1855</dc:date>
</rdf:Description>