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Herschel366

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[29 March 1861]
Source of text:
RGO 6.476.391
Summary:

Recognizes the validity of GA's claim to the eyepiece theory [see GA's 1861-3-27]; JH did not have space to deal adequately with the subject of telescopes.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4582

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Thomas Maclear
Date:
[1 October 1861]
Source of text:
Cape Archives/Maclear Papers File 100
Summary:

Expresses condolences on death of Mary Maclear.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6448

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Richard Christopher Carrington
Date:
[28 February 1861]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.216 & 23.326
Summary:

Has no means of knowing what course the University of Cambridge will take in the event of the resignation of James Challis. Hopes that RC will not cease from his astronomical labors.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6625

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Elizabeth Colling
Date:
[12 July 1861]
Source of text:
RS:HS 23.333
Summary:

Sends a work on physical geography in return for a receipt of some lines of poetry.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6713

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Gabriel Auguste Daubrée
Date:
[28 November 1861]
Source of text:
RS:HS 23.351
Summary:

Thanks GD for memoir on the subject of geological transformations.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6839

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Warren de La Rue
Date:
[7 November 1861]
Source of text:
RS:HS 23.346
Summary:

Thanks for pictures of Mars; speculates on the atmospheres of some planets.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7134

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Augustus De Morgan
Date:
[14 July 1861]
Source of text:
RS:HS 23.334
Summary:

Raised from his lethargy by the appearance of the comet; comments on the nature of the sun; can AD recommend a book on surveying for JH's son John.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7281

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Daily News
Date:
1861-2
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.461
Summary:

Regarding the question of forged documents by the Indigo planters of Bengal and the advantages they hold over the Ryotts, who cannot read or write.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8161

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Alfred P. Wire
Date:
[26 September 1861]
Source of text:
RS:HS 23.340
Summary:

AW's 'Thaumatrope' is ingenious, but applies only to periodic movement. JH aims to reproduce non-periodic motion. Commends AW's suggestion to employ government schoolmasters as meteorology observers.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8566

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
[Adam and Charles Black]
Date:
[9 January 1861]
Source of text:
BostonPubLib Ms. Eng. 204
Summary:

Sending first 64 pages of JH's Physical Geography with some insertions and corrections. Requests proofs in duplicate.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8583

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Walter White
Date:
[24 June 1861]
Source of text:
Columbia Univ. Library
Summary:

Asks that various papers by JH be sent along with the R.S.P.T. to four foreign locations.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8635

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
H[enry] Stevens
Date:
[27 March 1861]
Source of text:
Huntington Library
Summary:

Expresses thanks for sending Smithsonian Contribution to Knowledge, a report by A. D. Bache, and materials from the American Philosophical Society.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8790

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Stanley Jevons
Date:
[30 July 1861]
Source of text:
John Rylands University Library of Manchester (C: RS:HS 23.337)
Summary:

Thanks WJ for his papers on clouds [see WJ's 1861-7-21]. JH had not seen these, but praises their contents.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel884

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
John Herschel (son)
Date:
[12] January 1861
Source of text:
JHS 5.5
Summary:

Writes to inform son John of the sudden death [after only a very brief illness] of John's sister Margaret Louisa. [The letter is quiet and accepting, praising God for the happy and blameless life that 'Looey' had led and what joy she had brought to the family.]

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8932

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
The London Review
Date:
[12 May 1861]
Source of text:
London Review, 2 (May 18, 1861), 568-9
Summary:

Discusses the theory of rainbow formation, especially for rainbows seen as reflections from bodies of water.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8933

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
The London Review
Date:
[6 July 1861]
Source of text:
London Review, 3 (July 13, 1861), 46-7
Summary:

Reports JH's observations of a comet [Comet II Tebbutt ?] first seen from England ca. 29 June 1861. Remarks that it 'far exceeded in brightness any comet I have before observed.'

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel9209

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Whewell
Date:
[5 December 1861]
Source of text:
TC, Camb. Add. Ms.a.207101 (C: RS:HS 23.353)
Summary:

JH's 'scientific activity' has long been at zero, but JH has of late been preparing a lecture on the sun and translating Homer's Iliad.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel9210

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Whewell
Date:
[12 December 1861]
Source of text:
TC, Camb. Add. Ms.a.207100 (C: RS:HS 23.357)
Summary:

Asks WW's opinion of JH's hexameter translation of the opening section of Homer's Iliad. Comments on the value of hexameter verse.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel9451

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
[24 July 1861]
Source of text:
RS:HS 23.336
Summary:

More on lacunae in JH's set of MF's writings [see JH's 1838-10-3].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel9517

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Robert FitzRoy
Date:
[6 May 1861]
Source of text:
RS:HS 23.330
Summary:

On the effect of the earth passing through a comet's tail.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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