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[Letter to Sir John Lubbock on the subject of his paper "On shooting stars"]

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Type of record: Book

Title: [Letter to Sir John Lubbock on the subject of his paper "On shooting stars"]

Level: Piece

Classmark: Leeds Phil. and Lit. J/HER

Creator(s): Herschel, Sir John F W (1792-1871)

Additional creator(s): Lubbock, Sir John (1834-1913) (Other)

Related people: Lubbock, John

Publisher: s.n

Publication city: [s.l]

Date(s): [1861]

Size and medium: 4 p

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/266271

Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991017395919705181

Collection group(s): Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society

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Bound with 18 other publications, mostly by Herschel, in volume lettered Scientific & other papers. Sir J.F.W. Herschel . Volume contents: 1. An address delivered at a special general meeting of the Astronomical Society of London ..., 1827. -- 2. An address delivered by J.F.W. Herschel, esq. ..., [1828?]. -- 3. An address delivered at the anniversary meeting of the Astronomical Society of London ..., 1829. -- 4. Lettre addressée à MM. les rédacteurs des Annales de chimie et de physique ..., [ca. 1832]. -- 5. On the absorption of light by coloured media ..., [1833?]. -- 6. Address of the president, Sir J.F.W. Herschel, bart. ..., [1841?]. -- 7. On the action of the rays of the solar spectrum on the Daguerrotype plate, [1843?]. -- 8. Memoir of Francis Baily, esq., 1845. -- 9. [Address to the Royal Astronomical Society, February 9, 1849], 1849. -- 10. Sensorial vision, 1838. -- 11. On a new projection of the sphere, [1860]. --12. Remarks on colour-blindness, 1859. -- 13.
[Letter to Sir John Lubbock on the subject of his paper On shooting stars ], [1861]. -- 14. Chain suspension roofs, [1865]. -- 15. The great nebula round ē Argûs, [1869]. -- 16. Dante.: L'inferno of Dante, canto 1, []. -- 17. Notice of a remarkable occurrence of serpentine at the junction of sienite with the dolomite at the Tyrol, [ca. 1835?]. -- 18. On atoms, [ca. 1850?]. -- 19. On the origin of force, [ca. 1850?]

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