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Faraday4029

From:
John Frederick William Herschel
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
24 July 1861
Source of text:
IET MS SC 2
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday4030

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Second Earl Granville and Robert Lowe
Date:
Late July 1861
Source of text:
IET MS SC 2/3/1
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday4031

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Margaret Barnard
Date:
27 July 1861
Source of text:
private possession
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday4032

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
William Pigott
Date:
27 July 1861
Source of text:
LMA CLC/526/MS 30108/4/118
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday4033

From:
Jane Barnard
To:
Rachel Barnard
Date:
28 July 1861
Source of text:
RI MS F1 L/5/5
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday4034

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
John Frederick William Herschel
Date:
29 July 1861
Source of text:
RS MS HS 7.198
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday4035

From:
Norman MacLeod
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
29 July 1861
Source of text:
IET MS SC 2
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel10975

From:
William Stanley Jevons
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[21 July 1861]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.319
Summary:

Sending two papers he published some years ago, which agree with JH's theories regarding clouds. JH does not appear to know of their existence.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11267

From:
William Lassell
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[26 July 1861]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.159
Summary:

Is on the point of departure for Malta and would welcome letters of introduction from JH.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1560

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
S[amuel] P[ickworth] Woodward
Date:
[23 July 1861]
Source of text:
BL Aaa 42580.137
Summary:

Thanks SW for a copy of the reviews of JH's Meteorology and Physical Geography. Comments on related matters such as importing English birds into Australia, observations made by Alexander von Humboldt, and catching specimens behind a sailing ship.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1698

From:
George Smith
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[26 July 1861]
Source of text:
RS:HS 16.184
Summary:

About repayment of a loan made from JH.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel2403

From:
Edward Sabine
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[29 July 1861]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.256
Summary:

Sends letter regarding meteorology from the Smithsonian to JH. Pleased with magnetic work of [A. D.] Bache at Girard College.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3088

From:
Adolphe Quetelet
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[25 July 1861]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.253
Summary:

Sends list of works received on an official form. Followed by letter. Suffers deeply from death of his wife, daughter, and her son. Had hoped to see JH in London, but JH was absent.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3390

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Marc Seguin
Date:
[1861-7 or later]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.185
Summary:

Thanks for MS's works, communicated through [Picot] Tremblay. Worries that JH has insufficient time and lags behind in the physical sciences. Comments on ideas put forward in 1824 by JH and discussed by MS. Has found MS's name connected with suspension bridge over Rhone River.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3396

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
[21 July 1861]
Source of text:
RS:HS 23.335 (ACCS: RS:HS 17.388a; C: RI 505-6)
Summary:

Thanks for and comments on paper and lectures on 'diathermancy &c' of gases, scientific teaching, and solar chemistry. Regrets that JT mentioned all names connected with light research except JH's. Remarks on absorption of light, molecular vibrations.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3579

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[24 July 1861]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.388 (C: RI 507)
Summary:

Apologizes for not having seen JH's paper on spectra of colored flames and thus having overlooked JH's prior claims [see JH's 1861-7-21]. Will try to make amends.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6176

From:
William Henry Barton
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[17 July 1861]
Source of text:
RS:HS 3.301
Summary:

Further regarding the Pyx accounts.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6469

From:
James Challis
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[10 July 1861]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.237
Summary:

Encloses sketch of the comet seen on night of 30 June. Comments on various aspects of the comet.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6625

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Elizabeth Colling
Date:
[12 July 1861]
Source of text:
RS:HS 23.333
Summary:

Sends a work on physical geography in return for a receipt of some lines of poetry.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7133

From:
Augustus De Morgan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1 July 1861]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.346
Summary:

Has not heard from him for a long time. Did he receive his red and black logarithms? JH's son Alexander has sent him a mathematical problem. George Bishop has died and the observatory and instruments are to be sold. Sends two riddles. Sees that JH has proved that the sun is liquid fire.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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