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From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
John Phillips
Date:
[17 December 1840]
Source of text:
RS:HS 22.73
Summary:

Requests JP send JH's projected barometer observation to W. R. Birt.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
James Constantine Adamson
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[17 December 1840]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.10
Summary:

Difficulties over affairs of South African College, Cape Town. Observations on tornados.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Francis Beaufort
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
21 December [1840]
Source of text:
RS:HS 3.403 (ACC: Hydrographic Office Letter Book)
Summary:

Apologizing for the delay. Sends various map locations. Also extract from Captain F. W. Beechy's letter regarding magnetic operations.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Francis Baily
Date:
[10 December 1840]
Source of text:
RS:HS 3.193 (C: RS:HS 25.8.31)
Summary:

Regarding the arrangement of the constellations.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Francis Baily
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[15 December 1840]
Source of text:
RS:HS 3.194
Summary:

Regarding the planning of the constellations. Is having success with his own Cavendish experiments.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Francis Baily
Date:
[30 December 1840]
Source of text:
RS:HS 3.195 (C: RS:HS 25.8.32)
Summary:

Giving news of his own recent work on the grouping of the constellations.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Wallace
Date:
[16 December 1840]
Source of text:
RS:HS 22.72
Summary:

Gratified by WW's volume. Recalls JH's catenary theorems. Writes function to complete theory of exponential transcendents. WW's applications have greater practical bearing than JH's early efforts, which JH now finds difficult to decipher. Sorry that WW declared Mr. Gilbert's tables defective.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Radcliffe Birt
Date:
[14 December 1840]
Source of text:
RS:HS 19.85
Summary:

Sends barometer observations from Flushing series, Elias Loomis in U.S., and [J. S.] McCord in Montreal. Can WB prepare these before next B.A.A.S. meeting?

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Radcliffe Birt
Date:
[28 December 1840]
Source of text:
RS:HS 19.86
Summary:

Returns WB's 'Curves,' which JH presented to B.A.A.S. Sends results of 1837-1838 [barometer] observations by Captain [Edward] Belcher along Pacific coast of North and Central America.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project