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Herschel11492

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
John William Lubbock
Date:
[1845-3]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.405 (C: RS:HS 25.13.11)
Summary:

Has received the books. Began with Karl Holtzmann's and finds the reasoning at fault. Comments on this. [Marked 'not sent.']

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11599

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Humphrey Lloyd
Date:
[5 February 1845]
Source of text:
RS:HS 22.222
Summary:

Question of procedure about considering the magnetic observations for publication.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel116

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[3 April 1845]
Source of text:
RGO 6.675.389
Summary:

Wants to know if GA's opinions [see GA's 1845-4-1] are available for public information, or only for JH.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11600

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Humphrey Lloyd
Date:
[30 May 1845]
Source of text:
RS:HS 22.236
Summary:

Is trying to organize a meeting of the Magnetic Committee before the meeting of the B.A.A.S. in Cambridge, to deal with reporting and committee membership.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11601

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Humphrey Lloyd
Date:
[5 June 1845]
Source of text:
RS:HS 22.238
Summary:

Further to arrangements about meeting [see JH's 1845-5-30].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel117

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[12 June 1845]
Source of text:
RGO 6.675.509
Summary:

Arranging a meeting of the Magnetic Committee to set the agenda for the magnetic conference to be held during the B.A.A.S. meetings in Cambridge.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1173

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Whewell
Date:
[1845 to 1850?]
Source of text:
RS:HS 25.14.33
Summary:

Comments on WW's publication on education [Liberal Education, 1845 ?], especially as it applies to the teaching of mathematics. JH has been teaching JH's son William mechanics by WW's book on the subject.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel118

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[2 August 1845]
Source of text:
RGO 6.675.520
Summary:

No news yet about the request to Robert Peel for money for magnetic observations.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel119

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[8 October 1845]
Source of text:
RGO 6.675.522
Summary:

How does one jog the memory of the First Lord of the Treasury [see GA's 1845-10-3]?

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1194

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Richard Taylor
Date:
[16 April 1845]
Source of text:
RS:HS B26.11
Summary:

Is very critical of a series of three foreign memoirs that JH believes certainly should not be published. Concludes with a strange postscript on catalepsy.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11970

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
John Stuart Mill
Date:
16?] July [1845
Source of text:
RS:HS 12.332 & 22.245
Summary:

Do as JM suggests. Further comments on JH's dispute with the theories of Auguste Comte.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel120

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[10 October 1845]
Source of text:
RGO 6.675.525
Summary:

S. J. A. Compton [Lord Northampton] has addressed a private letter to Robert Peel [see GA's 1845-10-9].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1201

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Bellas Greenough
Date:
1845-12-24 or later
Source of text:
RS:HS B26.18
Summary:

AS JH understands the matter [see GG's 1845-12-23], GG is the only knowledgeable member of the committee, and so it will be up to GG to present information and propose some means of moving ahead. JH makes some critical remarks about the nature of B.A.A.S. committees.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel121

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
1845-9-29 or earlier
Source of text:
RGO 6.675.528
Summary:

Robert Peel has suggested that the Admiralty has money available to pay for improvements in scientific instruments of value to navigation.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel123

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[30 September 1845]
Source of text:
RGO 6.675.532
Summary:

Encourages GA to ask the Admiralty about the implications of Robert Peel's statements [see JH's 1845-9-29 or earlier].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel12473

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Hasledine Pepys
Date:
[9 November 1845]
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.339 & 22.256
Summary:

Asks WP to recall the particulars of an experimental session [see WP's 1823-3-11] where JH tried to demonstrate the polarization of light by an electrical current in a coil of wire.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel12490

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Hugh Percy (3rd Duke of Northumberland)
Date:
[12 June 1845]
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.356 inc & 22.243
Summary:

Sends copies of plates and details about them, and expects printing of JH's Cape Results to begin early in 1846.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel12592

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Georg Merz & Son
Date:
[7 November 1845]
Source of text:
RS:HS 25.6.29
Summary:

Is now finally empowered to order the telescope he inquired about [see JH's 1843-9-2].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel12593

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Georg Merz & Son
Date:
[24 December 1845]
Source of text:
RS:HS 25.6.31
Summary:

Some modifications to the telescope ordered [see JH's 1845-11-7].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel12596

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[11 May 1845]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0015; Reel 1054
Summary:

Gives reasons why telescope for Cape Observatory should be as perfect as possible. Doubts that its 'finder' is adequate.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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