Copy letter, from Sir John Herschel to William Whewell, dated at Feldhausen Copy of letter, copied as part of the correspondence project led by Colonel John Herschel FRS following the death of his father. Thanks for William Whewell's History of the Inductive Sciences and for dedicating it to John Frederick William Herschel. Has read volume I, being especially impressed by William Whewell's stress on hypothesizing. Recounts difficulties in getting tidal observations for William Whewell. Is sending back a large number of John Frederick William Herschel's astronomical observations. 20 August 1837