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Herschel6346

From:
John C. Broun
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[4 February 1864]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.110
Summary:

Further regarding the lectureship at the Cape of Good Hope.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6394

From:
Julia Margaret Cameron
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[26 February 1864]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.159
Summary:

Photographic news. Has heard about the JHs.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6798

From:
William Rutter Dawes
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[26 February 1864]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.115
Summary:

Would like account of the telescope of Warren de La Rue which JH has. E. J. Stone of the Royal Observatory has seen objects on the sun's surface like grains of rice.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7160

From:
Augustus De Morgan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[12 February 1864]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.368
Summary:

Hopes all are well. Comments on Charles Babbage's latest book. Intends telling the truth about James Ivory's delusions. Sends proof that ten is an even number.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7727

From:
James Samuelson
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[5 February 1864]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 13/1.5; Reel 10
Summary:

Received JH's drawings. Will send proof of plate.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7728

From:
James Samuelson
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[20 February 1864]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 13/1.6; Reel 10
Summary:

Send JH's manuscript immediately, or JS must postpone JH's article for next issue. Received Henry Draper's article on 'Silverised Glass Telescopes & Celestial Photo[graphy]' mentioning JH and 'Miss Herschel.'

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7729

From:
James Samuelson
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[24 February 1864]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 13/1.7; Reel 10
Summary:

JH's request for three proofs contradicts printer's policy of issuing only one of each. Assurance that JH's manuscript will be examined carefully for errors.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7730

From:
James Samuelson
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[26 February 1864]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 13/1.8; Reel 10
Summary:

Corrections on JH's manuscript on sunspots. Please keep alterations to minimum. Will send complimentary copies of Quarterly Journal of Science. Please write brief note on 'vaporous ring' and its bearing upon sunspots.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7741

From:
Richard Christopher Carrington
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[2 February 1864]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 13/2.3; Reel 10
Summary:

Copy of RC's book will be sent to JH from R.S.L. Thanks JH's son for letter.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7747

From:
M. & N. Hanhart, Lithographers
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[29 February 1864]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 13/3.99; Reel 10
Summary:

Sends proofs and originals of plates [for JH's catalogue of nebulae], as directed by Mr. Churchill.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8173

From:
Edwin Richard Windham Wyndham-Quin
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[10 February 1864]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.440
Summary:

Augusta Wyndham-Quin and EW enjoyed visit by JH's daughter, who delivered JH's essay on pendulum (1863) and 'one of the best photographs' EQ ever saw. Send another.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8351

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Richard Hodgson
Date:
[18 February 1864]
Source of text:
RS:HS 19.153 (C: RS:HS 24.31)
Summary:

Charles Pritchard was wrong in ascribing priority for diagonal reflecting telescope in Pritchard's address to R.A.S. As early as 1825, JH was first to use diagonal reflector. Describes its construction.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8352

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Richard Hodgson
Date:
[27 February 1864]
Source of text:
RS:HS 19.154 (C: RS:HS 24.32)
Summary:

Did not insinuate that RH plagiarized JH's idea of 'diagonal reflector,' but feels justified in defending JH's claim to being first to apply it.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8393

From:
Richard Hodgson
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[16 February 1864]
Source of text:
RS:HS 19.278
Summary:

Correction to R.A.S. report regarding eyepiece that RH invented for viewing sun, but which was attributed to JH by Charles Pritchard.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel9219

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Whewell
Date:
[10 February 1864]
Source of text:
TC, Camb. Add. Ms.a.207110 (C: RS:HS 24.30)
Summary:

Responds to WW's comments on parts of JH's translation of Homer's Iliad. Is sending his rendering of Book V. Has been ill.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

JHC235

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Reverend John Gunn
Date:
20 February 1864
Source of text:
JDH/2/22/2 f.64, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

JDH thanks his Uncle, Reverend John Gunn, for a copy of his work: GEOLOGY OF NORFOLK. JDH sends Gunn Sir Edward Frankland's hypothesis on the glacial epoch. [Leonard] Horner is 80 & dying. JDH saw [Charles] Lyell, who was in shock about the bone caves in Borneo. Mentions subscriptions in support of Bishop [John William] Colenso. JDH's Father William Jackson Hooker is well. JDH is going to [Sir Joseph] Prestwitch's lecture on flint implements. Asks when Gunn is coming to London, suggests he attends upcoming Royal Society parties. Discusses: latest additions to his own & Francis 'Frank' Darwin's collections of Wedgewood pottery; a medallion of William Gifford 'Giffy' Palgrave made by [Thomas] Woolner; & [Sir Roderick Impey] Murchison's butter boats.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

Tyndall2067

From:
Thomas Sterry Hunt
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
February 1, 1864
Source of text:
27 (1864), pp. 236-7, Phil. Mag.
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Tyndall2068

From:
Francois-Napoleon-Marie Moigno
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Undated
Source of text:
MS JT/1/M/103, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Tyndall2069

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
1864 February 3
Source of text:
MS JT/1/A/38; MS JT/1/TYP/1/28, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Tyndall2070

From:
Gustav Kirchhoff
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
3ten Febr. 1864
Source of text:
MS JT/1/K/9, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
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