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Herschel6676

From:
H. Cubitt
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[20 January 1843]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.380
Summary:

Is planning to blow down part of the cliffs near Dover for the railway and gives details of how he plans to do it.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6677

From:
H. Cubitt
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[23 January 1843]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.381
Summary:

Details of arrangements for reaching Dover in preparation for the blasting of the cliffs.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel67

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[19 January 1843]
Source of text:
RGO 6.368.660
Summary:

Intends to accept offer [see GA's 1843-1-18]; JH questions the correctness of P. S. Laplace's theory of capillary action.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel827

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Margaret Brodie Herschel
Date:
1843
Source of text:
JHS 3.32
Summary:

Is visiting Dr. [Richard?] Hobson, where JH has met some European scientists, such as F. W. Bessel and G. A. Erman; JH anticipates they will come to visit at Collingwood.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8294

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
[William Radcliffe Birt]
Date:
[1 January 1843]
Source of text:
RS:HS 19.99
Summary:

Reduction of barometer curves is nearly complete. Must have all papers within two weeks to prepare for B.A.A.S. meeting.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8295

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
[William Radcliffe Birt]
Date:
[19 January 1843]
Source of text:
RS:HS 19.100
Summary:

WB's packet arrived safely today.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8296

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Radcliffe Birt
Date:
[20 January 1843]
Source of text:
RS:HS 19.101
Summary:

Ask Edward Sabine for authority to insert additional notes [on barometric observations] into report already at printer's. Does not advise publishing observations. Asked Howard Elphinstone to send observations to WB.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8886

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
the Athenaeum
Date:
[31 January 1843]
Source of text:
Athenaeum, #797 (Feb. 4, 1843), 111
Summary:

Reports his observations on the explosion at Dover of 19,000 pounds of gunpowder.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel9567

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
James David Forbes
Date:
[19 January 1843]
Source of text:
RS:HS 7.304 & 22.146
Summary:

Protesting about the refusal of the Royal Society of Edinburgh to publish Thomas Brisbane's magnetic observations; hopes it will be reconsidered. Thinks JF's theory on glaciers has good points, but comments on some of its shortcomings.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel9568

From:
James David Forbes
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[23 January 1843]
Source of text:
RS:HS 7.305
Summary:

Is grateful for his letter and photographs. Will send him his paper on glaciers, which he is pleased to see interests him. Thomas Brisbane must be in error about the refusal of the Royal Society of Edinburgh to print his magnetic observations.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel9591

From:
Thomas I. M. Forster
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[4 January 1843]
Source of text:
RS:HS 7.332
Summary:

Has taken a house in Bruges. Comments on some of his own recent work on stars. Strange reports in French newspapers of James South and his instruments. Does he know a cure for double vision? Sends drawing of a colored meteor. Has another paper by L. A. J. Quetelet on falling stars with which he disagrees.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

JHC341

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Sir William Jackson Hooker
Date:
--[1843]
Source of text:
JDH/1/2 f.223, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

JDH explains why he has not been able to see his father, Sir William Jackson Hooker. He had Captain [James Clark] Ross's permission to leave the ship for home as soon as they arrived at Deptford or Woolwich but Mr Bird, the Commander, refused JDH leave.

Contributor:
Hooker Project
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Tyndall0182

From:
Thomas Charles Higginson
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
January 28th. 1843.
Source of text:
MS JT/1/11/3733, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
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Tyndall0183

From:
William Ginty
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Monday Night, (Jan. 30th, 1843)
Source of text:
MS JT/1/11/3591, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
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FVM-43-00-00

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller?
To:
Husum's phanerogamische Flora.?
Date:
1843
Source of text:
Inv. Nr 563, Botanisches Institut und Botanischer Garten, Universität Kiel, Germany
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-43-01-30

From:
Clara Müller
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
30 January 1843
Source of text:
RB MSS RB MSS M106.4, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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