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From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
2 December 1835
Source of text:
IEE MS SC 2
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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From:
Michael Faraday
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
3 December 1835
Source of text:
RGO 6/693, f.60
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[14 February 1835]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.68
Summary:

Has just been made president of the R.A.S. No news of John Pond's retirement. R. A. Cauchoix's telescope has arrived. Printing of his 1834 observations are well advanced.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[10 July 1835]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.69
Summary:

Sends his 1834 observations. Has received JH's weather observing instructions. Likely to accept the post of Astronomer Royal when John Pond resigns. Further remarks on new telescope and of E. J. Cooper's (near Sligo) - planetary disks - errors of divisions of circles. Possibility of small observatory in Upper Canada.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[20 February 1835]
Source of text:
RGO 6.368.596 (C: RS:HS 25.4.7)
Summary:

Describes the tests and adjustments JH has recommended to Thomas Maclear to try to remove anomalies from the functioning of the transit circle at the Royal Observatory, Cape of Good Hope; also comments on the beauty of some southern nebulae.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[19 September 1835]
Source of text:
RGO 6.368.598 (drafts RS:HS 1.70 & 21.187)
Summary:

Congratulates GA on being honored by H. M. Government [GA was offered a knighthood, which he declined], and of being appointed Astronomer Royal, and further tells GA about some of JH's observations, and the instruments in use [letter finished 11 Oct.].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project