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Herschel11635

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
John Lubbock
Date:
[6 November 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.339
Summary:

Returns, with thanks, a copy of JL's father's [John William Lubbock] work on lunar theory, and compliments JL on his own writings on prehistoric man.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel12258

From:
Richard John Nelson
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[15 November 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.115
Summary:

JH may recall meeting him at the Cape in March 1836. Now had a query regarding the size and limits of zodiacal light. Quotes case of errors in observations made by the Captain and Mate of a ship on which RN was returning from the Cape. Has now retired from the service.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel5001

From:
Cleveland Abbe
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[28 November 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.379
Summary:

Acknowledging receipt of JH's Slough catalogues. Further news regarding the publication of Professor O. M. Mitchel[l]'s Observations.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel5036

From:
William H. Attree
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1 November 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.417
Summary:

Question regarding auroral streams. [Part of this letter is missing; digest was obtained by consulting JH's reply of 1870-11-3]

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel5037

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William H. Attree
Date:
[3 November 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.337
Summary:

Relationship of electricity to magnetism, and relevance to 'auroral streamers'.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel5038

From:
William H. Attree
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[8 November 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.418
Summary:

Thanking him for his reply to his query of 1870-11-1.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel5851

From:
Robert Brown
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[15 November 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 4.320
Summary:

Further comments on JH's paper on the musical scales.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6361

From:
Thomas G. Bunt
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[30 November 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.126
Summary:

Sending calculations on the relative proportions of land to sea on the surface of the globe. Would welcome any comments from JH.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6599

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Elizabeth Colling
Date:
[4 November 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.338
Summary:

Thanks for the clippings about an aurora; thoughts on the relationship of poetry to music.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7296

From:
William B. Davis
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[3 November 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.475
Summary:

Is looking for employment as a calculator and if JH has the superintendence of the reduction of C. F. Gauss's Constants he would like the position.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7924

From:
Andrew Scott Waugh
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
23 November [1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.127
Summary:

Acknowledges return of R.S.L. certificate signed by JH. Anticipating visit with JH's son John, whom AW appointed to Great Trigonometrical Survey of India.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8651

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Griffith
Date:
[3 November 1870]
Source of text:
Manchester Central Library (ACCS: TxU:H/M-0222.2; Reel 1087)
Summary:

Agrees with GG and G. G. Stokes that the 'Magnetic Reduction Grant' should be approved. G. A. Erman also agrees.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8796

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Stanley Jevons
Date:
[10 November 1870]
Source of text:
John Rylands University Library of Manchester
Summary:

[Responding to WJ's 1870-10-29], JH declines participating, suggesting that too many lobbying groups already exist and that such groups frequently end up agitating for ends others than those that led to their creation.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel919

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
John Herschel (son)
Date:
[17 November 1870]
Source of text:
JHS 5.41
Summary:

Asks son John whom he would like to have sign the certificate for fellowship in the R.S.L. [see JH's 1870-9-7]; JH talks about ways of dealing with local irregularities in geodetic surveying [see JH's 1869-11-25]; is wishing Amelia and family were out of China and into India.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel9758

From:
Katherine A. S. Gibson
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[25 November 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 8.105
Summary:

What are JH's views on a suitable person to write a memoir of William Whewell.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel9759

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Katherine A. S. Gibson
Date:
1870-11-[26 orlater]
Source of text:
RS:HS 8.106 (C: RS:HS 24.341)
Summary:

Outlines the difficulty of selecting a person to write a memoir of William Whewell.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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