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astronomical t&e: camera lucida
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astronomical t&e: telescope component: stand
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meteorological t&e: barometer, mercury: barometer, stick(marine)
meteorological t&e: thermometer
meteorological t&e: thermometer component: case
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ivory
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Bell, Charles Davidson
Cameron, Julia Margaret
Hanhart, Michael
Hanhart, Nicholas
Herschel, Caroline Lucretia
Herschel, Margaret Louisa
Herschel, William
Johann Alexander Herschel
M & N Hanhart
Mayall, John Jabez Edwin
Molyneux, Robert
Pickersgill, Henry William
Pound, Daniel J.
Schenk, W.
Smith, Hezekiah Wright
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Ward, William
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Bern, Switzerland
Clay Hall near Windsor, completed in Slough.
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Baily, Francis
Cavendish, Henry
Colonel John Herschel
Davy, Humphry
Herschel, Alexander Stewart
Herschel, Caroline Lucretia
Herschel, John Frederick William
South, James
William James Herschel
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'J.F.Wm. Herschel' (Print)
'J F. Wm Herschel' (Print)
'Education in the Early Days at The Cape' (Drawing)
J.F.W. Herschel (Drawing)
'J.F. Wm. Herschel. For the Quarterly Journal of Science No.19' (Print)
'J F W Herschel' (Print)
John Herschel (Print)
Sir John Frederic William Herschel, M A (Print)
Eyepiece mounts
Thermometer case
Camera lucida
Prism
Cabinet
Stick barometer
Theodolite
20ft (reflector) telescope stand (Telescope stand)
'J F. Wm Herschel' (Print)
'Sir John F. W. Herschel, Bart' (Print)
40-foot Herschelian (reflector) telescope tube remains (Telescope tube)
Pill box (Cabinet contents)
Cabinet
Silk thread (Cabinet contents)
Thermometer case
Pill box and wire (Cabinet contents)
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