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Herschel10675

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Sir William Huggins
Date:
[5 August 1868]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.223
Summary:

Comments on WH's finding the carbon line in WH's spectroscopic examinations of cometary tails.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10676

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Sir William Huggins
Date:
[14 October 1868]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.233
Summary:

A note to accompany JH's biographical sketch of William Dawes.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10677

From:
Sir William Huggins
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[20 November 1868]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.46
Summary:

Sending a photograph of a solar prominence he has received from Major J. F. Tennant. Comments on various features. At the Transit of Mercury he saw the phenomenon described by J. H. Schröter.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10678

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Sir William Huggins
Date:
[22 November 1868]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.239
Summary:

Thanks to WH for the photograph of solar protruberances; comments on polarization of light from the sun.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10679

From:
Sir William Huggins
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[15 December 1868]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.47
Summary:

Has arranged for the last R.A.S.M.N. to be sent to him. Lieut. John Herschel has detected a fourth line in the spectrum of the Nebula in Orion.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10872

From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[9 November 1868]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.221
Summary:

Has placed Mr. Frosmard's letter before the Geological Society, and also discussed the matter with R. I. Murchison, but regrets he is unable to help.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10994

From:
Henry Bence Jones
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1868]-7-6.
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.340
Summary:

John Tyndall left London in a hurry, but he has urged the claims of JH's son [Alexander] as a professor at the School of Mines.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11096

From:
Frederic J. Jackson
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[18 August 1868]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.431
Summary:

Thanks for his article on musical scales. Misses a description of the elements of the simple scale. Comments on various theories.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11151

From:
Henry Samuel King
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[11 January 1868]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.39
Summary:

Did not contemplate gratuitous contributions from JH.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11199

From:
George Knott
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[15 June 1868]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.88
Summary:

Regarding JH's comments on a paper of Francis Abbott read at the R.A.S.'s meeting on 12 June. Believes the paragraph in question came from a paper of Sir William Herschel. Understands that Lieut. John Herschel has just examined this nebula.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11207

From:
S. Langley
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
19 October [1868?]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.96
Summary:

Is preparing a sketch of Sir John Lubbock for a weekly, and would be glad of JH's opinion regarding Lubbock as a man of science and his advanced political views.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11208

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
S. Langley
Date:
[25 October 1868]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.97 & 24.235
Summary:

Answer has been delayed as SL's letter was directed to MacMillans. Can be no two opinions on the contribution to scientific knowledge of Sir John Lubbock. Has full confidence in his political opinions.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11209

From:
S. Langley
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[5 November 1868]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.98
Summary:

Can he publish JH's statement regarding John Lubbock? Outlines the wishes of other scientists regarding the printing of their views.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11275

From:
William Lassell
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[24 March 1868]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.168
Summary:

Sending his impression, formed during a recent visit to Dublin, of the Great Telescope destined for Melbourne. Considers it a triumph of mechanical invention.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11436

From:
Edward Loyd
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[14 March 1868]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.348
Summary:

The Archbishop [of Canterbury, C. T. Longley] will be lunching with EL on the 24th and if JH is able will he join them for lunch.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11529

From:
Sir Charles Lyell
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[6 July 1868]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.444
Summary:

Much obliged for calling his attention to M. C. E. Du Four's paper, though he cannot reconcile the general reasoning. Comments on the effect of the Sirocco on the Föhn of the Alps.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11530

From:
Sir Charles Lyell
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[11 July 1868]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.445
Summary:

Sends Captain [P. F.] Shortland's account of his recent soundings and temperatures of the sea. Comments on these readings in the light of theory. What does JH think of the matter.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11647

From:
George A. MacFarren
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[3 November 1868]
Source of text:
RS:HS 12.12
Summary:

Has read with great interest JH's paper on the musical scales. Comments on JH's paper and expounds some of his own theories on the musical scales. Would like JH's comments on his paper.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11648

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George A. MacFarren
Date:
[16 November 1868]
Source of text:
RS:HS 12.13 & 24.238
Summary:

Is obliged for GM's letter and for the trouble he has taken over JH's paper on musical scales. Object in writing this paper was to clear the ground as it were. Elucidates some of the points in his own paper and comments on parts of GM's paper.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11649

From:
George A. MacFarren
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[21 November 1868]
Source of text:
RS:HS 12.14
Summary:

Appreciates JH's beautiful simplification of the numerals in musical arithmetic. Wishes JH would give up the point of the variability of the supertonic and transfer it to the submediant. Agrees with JH over the need for a keyboard instrument possessing a perfect chromatic scale in any particular key.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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