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Herschel179

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[17 March 1857]
Source of text:
RGO 6.251.265
Summary:

Expresses unease about P. S. Laplace's formulation of the barometric determination of height; in a postscript comments that Michael Faraday's lecture on conservation of force is a 'strange production.'

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel2370

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Edward Sabine
Date:
[15 March 1857]
Source of text:
RS:HS 23.191
Summary:

Writing article [for Encyclopaedia Britannica] on meteorology. Asks questions regarding work of [H. W.] Dove and [Thomas?] Taylor regarding cyclone and storm theory. Discusses barometric fluctuation.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel2371

From:
Edward Sabine
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[19 March 1857]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.240
Summary:

Discusses [H. W.] Dove's works regarding rotating storms. New information from Russian observatories gives a more complete understanding of the phenomenon. Has not seen Keith Johnson's new edition of Physical Atlas.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3303

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[20 March 1857]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.387 (C: RI 504)
Summary:

Remarks on physical properties of ice and their bearing on glacial phenomena. Asks for help inventing term for idea of 'fracture and renewal' of glacial bendings.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3566

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[2 March 1857]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.385 (C: RI 503)
Summary:

Sends sketch of lecture on structure and motion of glaciers. Wants to conduct experiments on physical properties of ice, and applying polarized light. Beyond paper, is interested in cleavage of ice.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3567

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
[17 March 1857]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.386
Summary:

Thanks for lecture on glacier cleavage. Wonders how 'regelation' occurs when two masses of ice at 32° are placed in contact.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4192

From:
Samuel Tyler
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[10 March 1857]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.455
Summary:

Informs JH that he wrote a book on Baconian philosophy inspired by JH's Prelim. Discourse.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4220

From:
William Henry Smyth
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[3 March 1857]
Source of text:
RS:HS 16.304
Summary:

JH's letter of recommendation for C. P. Smyth misdirected. Little time remains for nomination.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4251

From:
Charles Piazzi Smyth
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[19 March 1857]
Source of text:
RS:HS 16.234
Summary:

Sends atmospheric observations to JH before transmission to Admiralty.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4844

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[20 March 1857]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.233 (C: RGO 6.251.167)
Summary:

Regarding P. S. Laplace's barometric measurements. Michael Faraday.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7061

From:
Augustus De Morgan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[29 March 1857]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.295
Summary:

Sees by the announcement that he is to be out in April. Is there anything he can do in the way of proof reading? Is preparing answers to 65 queries of S. J. Loyd (1st Baron Overstone) on the decimal coinage.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8611

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Roderick Impey Murchison
Date:
[18 March 1857]
Source of text:
Royal Geographical Society
Summary:

JH's health is improving. Sends a portion of a letter from Thomas Maclear regarding Dr. [David] Livingstone's observations. Suggests the portion be read at the Geographical Society. Asks RM to invite Livingstone to visit JH.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8642

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Hannah M. Bouvier
Date:
[2 March 1857]
Source of text:
Huntington Library
Summary:

Thanks for HB's Familiar Astronomy. Praises it as a good introduction to astronomy.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

JHC1061

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
William Mitten
Date:
?-3-1857
Source of text:
WILLIAM MITTEN LETTERS MIT f.146, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC138

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
29 March 1857
Source of text:
JDH/2/22/1/1 f.6-9, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

JDH thanks Asa Gray for his note of 10 Mar [1857]. Is impatient for LESSONS, apologises for not reviewing the MANUAL in the JOURNAL OF BOTANY. William Jackson Hooker wants JDH to review [Miles Joseph] Berkeley's INTRODUCTION TO CRYPTOGAMIC BOTANY, JDH praises its content but calls it 'appallingly written & arranged', a common failing of parson-authors such as Sedgwick & Buckland, Copewell[?] & Baden-Powell. An abstract of the Linnean Society's ideas on genera will appear in the LITERARY GAZETTE & a summary by Bentham in the Linnean journal. JDH is critical of the way Germans approach a subject, A. Braun's work on genera is an exemplar. JDH dismisses [Berthold Carl] Seemann's 'twaddle' about genera being objective or subjective, gives Rosa & Salix as examples of the former & Unbellifers as the 'confoundedly bad' latter. Discusses [Thomas] Thomson's paper on germination & embryos of Careya & Barringtonia. JDH worries about Gray doing a book on forest trees. Notes [Richard] Spruce is stranded in Tarapoto, in the Andes, en route to Lima. Mentions UK government expedition to the source of the Missouri & the East Rocky Mountains, [Eugène] Bourgeau is the botanist & the commander Mr Palliser. JDH's children & wife [Frances Hooker] are in Brighton. JDH suggests a visit to the UK would stimulate Gray's work on the Flora of North America. [Walter Hood] Fitch has produced plates of British natural orders, designed by [John Stevens] Henslow, for the National Schools under the Board of Trade. In a post script dated 30 Mar JDH gives a detailed opinion of Gray's ELEMENTS. JDH cannot visit Canada & USA until 1858, he has too much work, with the Indian Herbarium & Tasmanian flora for the Van Diemen's Land government, & not enough money. Comments briefly on Gray's notices in SILLIMAN & at length on De Candolle's botanical geography, referring to the work of de Heer, Henfrey, Brown, Forbe's Atlantis theory & Duchastre's encyclopaedia. Recommends that Gray get the GARDENERS' CHRONICLE.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

Tyndall1345

From:
John Tyndall
To:
John Frederick William Herschel
Date:
2nd. March 1857
Source of text:
HS 17.385, RS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Tyndall1346

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
1857 March 3
Source of text:
MS.RGO 6/471.157; MS JT 1/TYP/1/19; MS JT/1/A/29, RGO; RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Tyndall1347

From:
John Tyndall
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
4th March 1857
Source of text:
MS.RGO 6/471.158-9, RGO; RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Tyndall1348

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
1857 March 4
Source of text:
MS.RGO 6/471.160, RGO
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Tyndall1349

From:
James David Forbes
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
6 March 1857
Source of text:
MS JT/1/F/31; MS JT/1/TYP/1/3941, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
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