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Herschel7569

From:
Paul Auguste Ernest Laugier
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[24 November 1847]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 10/5.86; Reel 9
Summary:

Thanks JH for a copy of JH's Cape Results and makes admiring comments on it.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7570

From:
Félix Victor Mauvais
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[29 November 1847]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 10/5.87; Reel 9
Summary:

Thanks JH for a copy of JH's Cape Results and compliments JH and his illustrious family.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7592

From:
Johann Franz Encke
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[22 November 1847]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 10/5.109; Reel 9
Summary:

The excellence of JH's Cape Results has humbled JE. Much of the letter is taken up with more in the same vein, citing specific examples.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7598

From:
Filipp Ivanovich Brunnov
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[12 November 1847]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 10/5.115; Reel 9
Summary:

Encloses letter from K. V. Nesselrode.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7607

From:
John Cruickshank
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[2 November 1847]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 10/5.124; Reel 9
Summary:

Senate of Marischal College acknowledges gift of JH's Cape Results.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7608

From:
Duncan Macfarlane
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[2 November 1847]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 10/5.125; Reel 9
Summary:

Gratitude for receipt of JH's Cape Results by University of Glasgow.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7611

From:
Johan Gothard, Baron de Rehausen
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[9 November 1847]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 10/5.128; Reel 9
Summary:

Received JH's letter to JG's late predecessor at Swedish legation, Count Björnstjerna. Will forward copies of JH's Cape Results to Swedish institutions named by JH.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7623

From:
John Russell Bartlett
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[2 November 1847]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 10/5.139; Reel 9
Summary:

Gratitude for receipt of JH's Cape Results by New York Historical Society.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7624

From:
Matthew Fontaine Maury
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[2 November 1847]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 10/5.140; Reel 9
Summary:

Gratitude for receipt of JH's Cape Results. Outlines MM's project to catalogue all ninth and tenth magnitude stars by duplicate sweeps with different instruments and observers. Can JH offer suggestions?

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7625

From:
Walter R. Johnson
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[2 November 1847]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 10/5.141.1 and 141.2; Reel 9
Summary:

[Form letter] Acknowledges receipt of JH's Cape Results by Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. [Personal note on verso] Reports Association of American Geologists and Naturalists has extended its scope of interest and changed name to 'American Association for the Promotion of Science,' hoping to attract foreign scientists. As secretary, WJ invites JH to attend September meeting in Philadelphia.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7626

From:
Joseph Lovering
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[3 November 1847]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 10/5.142; Reel 9
Summary:

Gratitude for receipt of JH's Cape Results. Recently resolved Orion nebula with new refractor from Munich. Working now on annular nebula in Lyra.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7627

From:
Theodore Dwight Woolsey
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[27 November 1847]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 10/5.143; Reel 9
Summary:

Gratitude for receipt of JH's Cape Results by Yale library. Pleased by references to recently deceased alumnus E. P. Mason.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7642

From:
Edward Sabine
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
22 November [1847]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 10/6.9; Reel 9
Summary:

Send presentation copies [of JH's Cape Results] to foreign recipients in name of R.S.L. Treasury charges duty only if books are presented by individuals. Will present JH's list [of recipients] at next meeting of B.A.A.S. council. Congratulates JH on winning Copley Medal. Will transmit copy [of Cape Results] to Naples.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7836

From:
Henry Warburton
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[14 November 1847]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.40
Summary:

Close to finding expeditious, symmetric method for computing Bernoulli's numbers. Resolves four formulas that HW sent to JH earlier today.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7837

From:
Henry Warburton
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[22 November 1847]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.41
Summary:

Thanks for comments on HW's paper and work on properties of Bernoulli's numbers. Claims HW's method of continued subtraction is convenient process for determining numerical coefficients. Found error, long perpetuated in literature, regarding Bernoulli's 13th number. Offers correct solution.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7838

From:
Henry Warburton
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[23 November 1847]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.42
Summary:

More calculations showing continued subtraction method in solution of Bernoulli's 13th number.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7839

From:
Henry Warburton
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[24 November 1847]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.43
Summary:

More calculations using continual subtraction method to test Bernoulli's 15th number.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7840

From:
Henry Warburton
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[25 November 1847]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.44
Summary:

More continual subtractions to resolve Bernoulli's 17th number. Error in official value given in Encyclopaedia Metropolitana. Also working on Bernoulli's 18th number.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7841

From:
Henry Warburton
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[29 November 1847]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.45
Summary:

Will submit paper to Cambridge [Philosophical] Society revising all [Leonhard] Euler's values for Bernoulli's numbers. Doubts accuracy of values up to B=49 quoted by George Peacock.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8334

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Eden
Date:
20 November [1847]
Source of text:
RS:HS 19.137 (RS:HS 23.51)
Summary:

Agrees to gather and edit contributions to Admiralty Manual and supervise its printing. Will correspond next month with all [scientists] chosen by GE.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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