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Herschel5863

From:
John Bullar
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[3 September 1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS 4.332
Summary:

Is grateful for the ? which made him laugh. Hopes that Lady Herschel will accept the enclosed.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6842

From:
Warren de La Rue
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[14 September 1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.150
Summary:

Regarding the pictures of the moon by M. M. Gussew. Gives details of the eclipse of 1860. Heliograph has been working at his observatory since February. G. Sabler has now left and will doubtless do good work when he receives his instrument from J. H. Dallmeyer.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7654

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[2 September 1862]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 12/1.1.8; Reel 10
Summary:

Sorry to hear about JH's pain. Encloses notes from GA's testimony to parliamentary committee investigating changing standards of weights and measures. GA's work continues on 'veritable precessions.'

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7671

From:
William Parsons (Lord Rosse)
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[26 September 1862]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 12/1.2.19; Reel 10
Summary:

Encloses letter from G. J. Stoney, who had journal of WP's nebulae observations. Hopes WP's observations will be helpful for JH's proposed catalogue of nebulae.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7694

From:
William Lassell
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[26 September 1862]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 12/1.7.4; Reel 10
Summary:

Delighted with performance of WL's telescopes in Maltese climate. Invites JH to visit. Awaiting JH's catalogue of nebulae. Seeking assistant.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7695

From:
William Lassell
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[26 September 1862]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 12/1.7.5; Reel 10
Summary:

Describes galaxy-like gaseous nebula with interior elliptical ring.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7700

From:
Heinrich Louis d'Arrest
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[29 September 1862]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 12/1.8.12; Reel 10
Summary:

More about the nebula catalog JH is preparing [see HA's 1862-3-12], and still wondering if there is some way HA's observations might be used.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8136

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Joseph Whitworth
Date:
[27 September 1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.403 (C: 23:387)
Summary:

Quotes report of limitations in JW's new artillery shell for penetrating ironclad vessels. Recounts JH's [Apr. 1836] experiments at Cape of Good Hope to increase explosive power of gunpowder by adding [Luke] Howard's fulminating mercury.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8938

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
The London Review
Date:
[17 September 1862]
Source of text:
London Review, 5 (Sept. 20, 1862), 264
Summary:

Congratulations on the balloon ascent to 30,000 feet by James Glaisher and Henry Coxwell. Suggests far greater heights are possible using compressed oxygen to breathe and the 'Peruvian coca leaf' [cocaine] as a source of strength.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Tyndall1924

From:
John Tyndall
To:
John Murray
Date:
2nd Sept. 1862
Source of text:
John Murray Archive, Ms. 41214, NLS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Tyndall1925

From:
C. K. Akin
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
September 8th. /62
Source of text:
SC MS Add.7656/A615, CUL
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Tyndall1926

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Heinrich Debus
Date:
11th, Sept.
Source of text:
MS JT/1/TYP/7/2401, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Tyndall1927

From:
Jacques-Louis Soret
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
11 Sept. 1862
Source of text:
MS JT/1/S/86, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Tyndall1928

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Julius Haast
Date:
17th Septr. 1862
Source of text:
MS-Papers Turnbull 0037-143, Alexander Turnbull Library
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Tyndall1929

From:
Charles Lyell
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Sept. 26th./ 62
Source of text:
MS JT/1/L/48; MS JT/1/TYP/3/847, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Tyndall1930

From:
John Couch Adams
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Sept. 29th 1862
Source of text:
MS JT/1/TYP/1/1, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Tyndall1931

From:
Johann Christian Poggendorff
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
29 Sept. 62
Source of text:
MS JT/1/P/133, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Tyndall1932

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Juliet Pollock
Date:
Friday
Source of text:
MS JT/1/T/1208; MS JT/1/TYP/6/2049, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
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FVM-62-09-17

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
William Hooker
Date:
17 September 1862
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Directors' letters, vol. LXXV, Australian and Pacific letters 1859-65, letter no. 156
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
Text Online

FVM-62-09-20

From:
Joseph Hooker
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
20 September 1862
Source of text:
RB MSS M3, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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