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From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Robert John Kane
Date:
[11 October 1847]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0210.1; Reel 1054
Summary:

Thanks for information [on latest platina research]. Has encountered 'a totally new metallic chemistry.' Searching for papers by Mr. Gros and Mr. Beiset. Describes JH's experiments with 'Platinoids,' which JH named like asteroids: Heberum, Astraeum, and Neptunium.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Robert John Kane
Date:
[11 October 1847]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0210.2; Reel 1054
Summary:

Encloses JH's letter of 11 Oct., which was not mailed to RK. Discovered traces of titanium in Astraeum. Puzzled by saline compounds that appear in JH's experiments with 'Platinoids.'

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Anne Elise Knipping
Date:
[17 October 1847]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0214; Reel 1054
Summary:

Grateful that AK withheld 'fanatical letter' addressed to Caroline Herschel. JH authorized Drummonds Bank in London to honor any check from [A. A.] Mühry up to £50 to pay for Caroline's needs. Tell Miss [Sophie] Beckedorff and Dr. Mühry to use this channel, rather than writing to JH directly.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Edward Sabine
Date:
[9 October 1847]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0364.2; Reel 1054
Summary:

Agrees that H. C. Schumacher and foreign institutions should be added to list of recipients for catalogs. Please submit recommended names to B.A.A.S. Needs addresses of [W. S.] Stratford and Paramatta observatory. Complications in mailing B.A.A.S. catalog to foreign recipients.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Baron de Linden
Date:
[6 October 1847]
Source of text:
WT 63313.5
Summary:

Agrees to a request to forward some work to BL.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
[Alexander V. Bewley]
Date:
[17 October 1847]
Source of text:
WT B.7
Summary:

Tells AB about the state of education in South Africa when JH was there, comments on his part in such reforms as were made, and gives all the credit to Sir George Napier.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Edward Sabine
Date:
[9 October 1847]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.209 (C: RS:HS 22.329)
Summary:

Discusses use of 'force' versus use of 'power' in translating [Alexander von] Humboldt's Cosmos. Says science has outgrown 'force.' [See 1847-10-8]

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Adolphe Quetelet
Date:
[15 October 1847]
Source of text:
Académie belgique: #25
Summary:

Thanks AQ for package No. 32. Asks AQ to acknowledge receipt of JH's Cape Results. Commends AQ for outstanding work on magnetic meteorological and periodic phenomena.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Rowan Hamilton
Date:
[6 October 1847]
Source of text:
TCD 1493:411
Summary:

Thanks WH for 'plan' of [asteroid] Iris. Family is happy to have WH's son (JH's son William's friend) with them for holidays. Recounts their playful and adventurous activities.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
1847-10-6 or later
Source of text:
RGO 6.203.383
Summary:

Has dealt with the problem of thanking H. C. Schumacher [see GA's 1847-10-6].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Richard Sheepshanks
Date:
[13 October 1847]
Source of text:
RS:HS 16.73 (C: RS:HS 25.9.46)
Summary:

Gives information from W. R. Hamilton on the location of the asteroid Iris. Proposes R.A.S. begin collecting observations of sunspots, the goal being a complete series of 'the sun's aspect for every day of every year.' Offers the observations of H. Griesbach for 1846 as a 'nest egg' as well as some of his own. Requests address of G. Schwinck, who prepared a star atlas. Reports on F. G. W. Struve's Neptune observations.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Caroline Lucretia Herschel
Date:
[14 October 1847]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0592.9; Reel 1058 & Reel 1089
Summary:

JH expects that CH has received the copy of his Cape Results that he sent recently.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[28 October 1847]
Source of text:
RGO 6.230.187
Summary:

Clarifies the agenda for the next R.A.S. meeting, and reports that the large refracting telescope is on the way to the Cape.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Henry Smyth
Date:
[25 October 1847]
Source of text:
RS:HS 22.331
Summary:

Thanks WS for copy of W. S. Jacob paper on American telescope. Hopes that Jacob will attempt Talbotypes of sun spots while at Aden.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Charles James Fox Bunbury
Date:
[17 October 1847]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.119 & 22.330
Summary:

Sending him details of the system of Education used at the Cape.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Bancroft
Date:
1] October [1847
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 10/5.133.2; Reel 9
Summary:

Thanks GB for making exception. Will send copies [of JH's Cape Results] immediately to American legation. Offers personal copy to GB. Notes national and private efforts at astronomy in America.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Radcliffe Birt
Date:
[7 October 1847]
Source of text:
RS:HS 19.126 (C: RS:HS 22.328)
Summary:

JH avoids participating in meteorological enquiry. Suggests improvements on WB's plan to establish government office to collect and publish meteorological reports from worldwide network of military stations. Has read Francis Ronalds's papers.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
1847-10-1 or earlier
Source of text:
RGO 6.368.682
Summary:

About observing stars with the transit circle, and timing the annulus [of an eclipse?].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
1847-10-1 or later
Source of text:
RGO 6.368.686
Summary:

Was too cloudy to observe the eclipse; very worried about the health of Thomas Maclear.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Henry Fox Talbot
Date:
23] October [1847
Source of text:
Science Museum Talbt 1/37
Summary:

Thanks for excellent Talbotypes. Notes how few photographs are 'perspective representations on a vertical plane' and suggests how to correct this.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project