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Herschel3158

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
James Clark Ross
Date:
[27 July 1839]
Source of text:
RS Sa.649
Summary:

Because of R.S.L. council meeting on Thursday, suggests Friday meeting with JL and several others.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3296

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Henry Sykes
Date:
[12 April 1839]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.140 (C: RS:HS 22.8)
Summary:

Thanks WS for offer of professorship of astronomy at Oxford, but declines it, partly because of other pursuits and health reasons, and considers his astronomical career terminated.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3364

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Edward Sabine
Date:
[19 July 1839]
Source of text:
RS Sa.648
Summary:

Sends plans for and detailed explanation of device to suspend cot or couch in ship so as to 'destroy' ship's motion and alleviate seasickness.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3410

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
James David Forbes
Date:
[30 March 1839]
Source of text:
St. Andrews 24 (C: RS:HS 22.5)
Summary:

Discusses prospects for meteorological committee of B.A.A.S., on which they both will serve. Lacks time for it. Does not need hourly observations made by Committee of Physico-Mathematical Society of Edinburgh.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3467

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
James Clark Ross
Date:
[29 March 1839]
Source of text:
RS Sa.646
Summary:

On instruments for fixed stations. Fears that naval expedition will be detained.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3560

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
James David Forbes
Date:
[6 June 1839]
Source of text:
St. Andrews 32 (C: RS:HS 22.15)
Summary:

Writes 'in haste' to thank JF for a pair of papers. Comments on Louis Daguerre's pictures in Paris.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3601

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
[John William Lubbock?]
Date:
[1839?]
Source of text:
RS LUB.H.353
Summary:

Advice on obtaining magnetical and meteorological apparatus for Van Diemen's Land observatory. Need to clear up finances.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3606

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
James Clark Ross
Date:
[4 April 1839]
Source of text:
RS Sa.647
Summary:

Concerns about equipment for fixed observatories, for which aid will come from B.A.A.S., and for [naval] expedition. Expresses vital importance of meteorological observatory on Van Diemen's Land.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3642

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Rowan Hamilton
Date:
[11 December 1839]
Source of text:
TCD 1493:182
Summary:

Requests another copy of WH's paper on light, recently read at Royal Irish Academy, having sent JH's own copy to Prague's [Karl] Kreil for description of [Humphrey] Lloyd's vertical magnetometer contained therein. Has WH yet found the three axes of the universe? Comments on WH's sister's 'charming' poetry.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3663

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Richard Sheepshanks
Date:
[29 April 1839]
Source of text:
RS:HS 16.5 (C: RS:HS 25.9.2)
Summary:

Discusses arrangements for the printing of a portrait of JH in some copies of a forthcoming volume [JH's Cape Results].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3666

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Richard Sheepshanks
Date:
[14 July 1839]
Source of text:
RS:HS 16.8 (C: RS:HS 25.9.3)
Summary:

On the difficulties of writing his book [Cape Results]. Feels he has been at everyone's disposal but his own and is finding notes made at the Cape difficult to decipher. Asks RS to report to him from Germany on the state of telescope manufacturing there and on the progress of F. G. W. Struve's great refractor.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3764

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Caroline Lucretia Herschel
Date:
[1 March 1839]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0584.1; Reel 1058
Summary:

Prepared to send to CH copies of the Index to John Flamsteed.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3861

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Rowan Hamilton
Date:
[13 February 1839]
Source of text:
unknown
Summary:

In reply to WH's 1839-2-8 inquiry, JH believes that 'Skotodynamics' (the propagation of light waves) is a new line of research. Caroline Herschel is ecstatic about her Royal Irish Academy medal.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3945

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Robert Hunt
Date:
[14 December 1839]
Source of text:
George Eastman House 1.17 (draft: RS:HS 10.81 & C: 22.32)
Summary:

Intrigued by RH's experiments with photographic papers; will buy six sheets of RH's specimens. Admits having conducted numerous experiments himself and asks to include some of RH's results in a forthcoming paper on the subject.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3987

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Caroline Lucretia Herschel
Date:
[26 June 1839]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0584.4.b; Reel 1058
Summary:

Has enclosed with the letter 'a letter sketch of the 40 feet [telescope] (as it now stands) made without hands, by Photography.'

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3988

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Caroline Lucretia Herschel
Date:
[7 August 1839]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0584.5.a; Reel 1058
Summary:

The 20-ft. reflecting telescope used at Cape Town was delivered safely to Slough.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3989

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Caroline Lucretia Herschel
Date:
[23 October 1839]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0584.7; Reel 1058
Summary:

Reports the birth of JH's seventh child, Maria Sophia. Met Adolphus Frederick, the Duke of Cambridge, who asked about CH.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4092

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Thomas Maclear
Date:
[21 June 1839]
Source of text:
Cape Archives/Maclear Papers File 100
Summary:

J. C. Ross goes to Cape; will establish the proposed Magnetic Observatory for three years. TM should seek a site for the Magnetic Observatory.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4119

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Whewell
Date:
[28 January 1839]
Source of text:
Harvard: Houghton fMS Am 1301.1 (18)
Summary:

Invites WW to Slough before JH travels to Midhurst [to consider property for sale].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4350

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
John Phillips
Date:
[6 April 1839]
Source of text:
RS:HS 22.7
Summary:

Sends plans to construct barometer that he never built; invites JP to use the plans.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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