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Herschel2579

From:
William Selwyn
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[6 March 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.483
Summary:

William Whewell died peacefully that afternoon. The place of burial has not been determined. WS will speak about him on Friday. Takes comfort in his writings.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel2580

From:
William Selwyn
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[8 March 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.484
Summary:

William Whewell will be buried in Trinity College Chapel. The thought of speaking about Whewell depresses WS.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel2581

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Selwyn
Date:
[7 March 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.147
Summary:

Thanks WS for communicating the events of William Whewell's last days.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel2582

From:
William Selwyn
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[29 March 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.485
Summary:

Compiling three year series of helioautographs. Wants suggestions for noting the position of planets supposedly influencing sunspots. Discusses a passage from one of Galileo's letters concerning the influence of the planets on the sun's face.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3361

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
[3 March 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.399b (C: 24.144)
Summary:

Describes experiment involving viewing spectrum of a light flash as it advances and recedes. [Marked 'not sent on further consideration.']

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4902

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1 March 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.290
Summary:

Has sent the 1854 Greenwich Magnetical and Meteorological Observations. Illness of the Master of Trinity College, Cambridge (William Whewell). Undulating theory of stars in motion.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel5747

From:
Edward William Brayley
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[8 March 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 4.234
Summary:

Has answered Smith's request by letter this evening. Thanks for the specimen of the meteorite.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7310

From:
Edmund B. Denison
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[23 March 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.489
Summary:

Sending a small book he has written on astronomy. Owes all his knowledge to JH's Outlines Astr. Comments on the changes that could be made should any new edition of the Outlines be contemplated.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7784

From:
Francis Diedrich Wackerbarth
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[6 March 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.1
Summary:

Bemoans lack of complete collection in English of William Herschel's works. Questions quality of J. W. A. Pfaff's 1826 German work on WH, whose English nomenclature for stellar astronomy is not yet adopted in other languages. Suggests English government or R.A.S. underwrite cost of publication.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8414

From:
Rudolf Wolf
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[25 March 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 19.299
Summary:

Is sending JH a copy of some of RW's writings on sun spots. RW has been considering writing about the work of William and Caroline Herschel before the discovery of Uranus.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8793

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Stanley Jevons
Date:
[8 March 1866]
Source of text:
John Rylands University Library of Manchester (C: RS:HS 24.148)
Summary:

Agrees to WJ's request to make use of an earlier letter of JH's [see WJ's 1866-3-7].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8852

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Herbert Spencer
Date:
[17 March 1866]
Source of text:
Univ. of London Library (CC: RS:HS 16.489 & C: 23.298)
Summary:

Will subscribe to HS's work as requested [see HS's 1860-3-5], but dissents 'from very large portions' of HS's views. Especially objects to HS's adoption of the 'Shibboleth of the Hegel & Schelling School of German Philosophy—"the Absolute."' [This letter misdated; correct date: 1860-3-17.]

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel9631

From:
J. Fitzmaurice
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[3 March 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 7.370
Summary:

A relation of JF has a handsome portrait of a William Herschel dressed in Jewish costume, to dispose of and wonders if JH would be interested in it. [Note by Herschel that this is Rabbi Herschel and no relation to the family.]

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel9760

From:
Katherine A. S. Gibson
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
7 March [1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 8.107
Summary:

Announcing the death of William Whewell and plans for his funeral. Hopes JH will not come in his present state of health.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel9800

From:
James Glaisher
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[5 March 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 8.135
Summary:

Editor of the Leisure Hour would like an article on the Correlation of the Physical forces. Would JH be prepared to write such an article?

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

JHC1146

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Dr Thomas Anderson
Date:
16 March 1866
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/1 f.90-91, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project
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FVM-66-03-01

From:
Joseph Hooker
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
1 March 1866
Source of text:
RB MSS M3, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
Text Online

FVM-66-03-02d

From:
Thomas Purves
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
2 March 1866
Source of text:
MS 12521 Victorian Horticultural Society, box 3401, p. 278, La Trobe Australian Manuscripts Collection, State Library of Victoria, Melbourne
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
Text Online

FVM-66-03-05

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Thomas Purves
Date:
5 March 1866
Source of text:
MS 12521 Victorian Horticultural Society, box 3401, pp. 278-9, La Trobe Australian Manuscripts Collection, State Library of Victoria, Melbourne
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
Text Online

FVM-66-03-10

From:
David Coller
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
10 March 1866
Source of text:
W70/5147, unit 576, VPRS 3991/P inward registered correspondence, VA 475 Chief Secretary's Office, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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