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Herschel8345

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Jacques Babinet
Date:
[24 February 1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS 19.148
Summary:

JB's solution to torsion thread arrangement is simpler and more ingenious than JH's. Enquires about details of gravimetric balance. Pendulum measurements. Density of continents. Clarification of JH's privileges as foreign associate of Institute. Death of J. B. Biot.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8347

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
the London Times
Date:
[13 May 1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS 19.149b
Summary:

Times of 12 May called for remedy to industrial pollution. In 1838 JH visited soda production plant near Newcastle and suggested profitable modification to fume chimneys that removed harmful vapors and generated useful compounds.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8348

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Smith
Date:
[1 October 1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS 19.150 (C: RS:HS 23.388)
Summary:

Sends JH's translation of Book II of Homer's Iliad (1862). Hopes to publish it in Cornhill Magazine. Three reasons for wanting it to appear soon.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel850

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Margaret Brodie Herschel
Date:
11 February [1862]
Source of text:
JHS 4.2
Summary:

Mostly family news, concluding with concerns about family finances.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8706

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Sir Henry Taylor
Date:
[7 April 1862]
Source of text:
Bodleian Library, Oxford
Summary:

Thanks for HT's St. Clement's Eve. Has been reading it with much interest. Praises it.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8707

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Henry Wentworth Dyke Acland
Date:
[25 October 1862]
Source of text:
Bodleian Library, Oxford
Summary:

Discusses standards of weight and measure, especially the idea of a proposed unit called the 'Medical Grain.' JH strongly opposes this.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8709

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Augustus De Morgan
Date:
[30 July 1862]
Source of text:
Bodleian Library, Oxford
Summary:

Discusses various etymologies, some coming out of JH's efforts to translate Homer's Iliad. Also discusses a book sale and some anagrams.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8755

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Parsons (Lord Rosse)
Date:
[23 June 1862]
Source of text:
Rosse Papers K2.8
Summary:

Thanks WP for WP's paper on nebulae and on WP's giant reflecting telescope. Comments on and/or raises questions about various nebulae.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8756

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Parsons (Lord Rosse)
Date:
[25 December 1862]
Source of text:
Rosse Papers K2.9
Summary:

Discusses plans for a memorial for Thomas Maclear. Requests change in manner in which WP records positions of nebulae observed at WP's observatory.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8802

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
J[ames] M[osey] Cranswick
Date:
[27 May 1862]
Source of text:
Science Museum Archives MS 1007 (ACCS: RS:HS 5.373 & C: 23.375)
Summary:

[Responding to JC's 1862-5-26], discusses JH's argument against the eternal self existence of matter. Gives reference to where argument appears in JH's Prelim. Discourse.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel886

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
John Herschel (son)
Date:
[26 June 1862]
Source of text:
JHS 5.7
Summary:

Expresses concern about son John's loneliness in India, and so JH proceeds to tell him of the Great Exhibition of 1862, and about scientific work being done such as improvements in meteorology, solar photography, and the work being done on JH's catalogue of nebulae. No decision has been made about the Edinburgh professorship for which son Alexander has applied.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8934

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
the London Times
Date:
[14 May 1862]
Source of text:
London Times (May 15, 1862), p. 11, col. 4
Summary:

Calls public attention to an inexpensive process JH devised in 1838 to eliminate noxious acid fumes coming from manufacturers of soda.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8935

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
the Athenaeum
Date:
[1 November] 1862
Source of text:
Athenaeum, #1881 (Nov. 14, 1863), 652 inc
Summary:

Calls attention to a report of a lake in Central America that 'gives rise to two rivers.'

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8936

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society
Date:
1862-[3]
Source of text:
Manchester Philosophical Society Proceedings, 2 (1862), 215-7
Summary:

Responds to some erroneous claims made at the Society regarding JH's views in meteorology, e.g., JH asserts his support for the Hadleian theory of winds.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8937

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
John R. Hind
Date:
[4 April 1862]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0193; Reel 1054
Summary:

Reports the disappearance of a nebula seen by William Herschel in Coma Berenices, but which H. L. d'Arrest did not locate in 1850.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8938

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
The London Review
Date:
[17 September 1862]
Source of text:
London Review, 5 (Sept. 20, 1862), 264
Summary:

Congratulations on the balloon ascent to 30,000 feet by James Glaisher and Henry Coxwell. Suggests far greater heights are possible using compressed oxygen to breathe and the 'Peruvian coca leaf' [cocaine] as a source of strength.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel9211

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Whewell
Date:
[22 January 1862]
Source of text:
TC, Camb. Add. Ms.a.207102 (C: RS:HS 23.359)
Summary:

Thanks for volume three of WW's Plato edition. Responds to WW's comments on JH's translation of the first section of Homer's Iliad.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel9212

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Whewell
Date:
[10 April 1862]
Source of text:
TC, Camb. Add. Ms.a.207103 (C: RS:HS 23.366)
Summary:

Responds to WW's comments on JH's Iliad translation. Is preparing a 'General Index Catalogue of Nebulae,' with help from computists supplied by G. B. Airy. Asks WW to recommend JH's son Alexander for a professorship at the Andersonian University of Glasgow.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel9213

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Whewell
Date:
[17 April 1862]
Source of text:
TC, Camb. Add. Ms.a.207104 (C: RS:HS 23.368)
Summary:

Sends, along with comments, JH's translation of part of Book II of Homer's Iliad. Is avoiding consulting other translations.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel9214

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Whewell
Date:
[8 May 1862]
Source of text:
TC, Camb. Add. Ms.a.207105 (C: RS:HS 23.374)
Summary:

Sends another section of JH's Iliad translation. Regrets he cannot come to the Cambridge B.A.A.S. meeting. Sends lines of the Iliad translated by Augustus DeMorgan.

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John Herschel Project
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