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From:
unknown
To:
Royal Society
Date:
11 January 1868
Source of text:
MM/14/209, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
Martha Somerville
To:
John Murray III
Date:
27 Jan 1868
Source of text:
19, MS 41131, NLS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse
From:
Martha Somerville
To:
John Murray III
Date:
[1868]
Source of text:
21, MS 41131, NLS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse
From:
Henry Hudson
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[4 January 1868]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.29
Summary:

Makes no claim to originality for his experiments; thinks highly of Dr. W. C. Wells but would like to know whether [Pierre] Prévost's theory is tenable.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Henry Samuel King
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[11 January 1868]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.39
Summary:

Did not contemplate gratuitous contributions from JH.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Eliza Susan Quincy
Date:
[13 January 1868]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.285 (C: RS:HS 24.5)
Summary:

Received memoirs of [Josiah] Quincy. Has not had time to peruse the work in its entirety. Thanks EQ for the book.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Photographic News
Date:
[25 January 1868]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.160
Summary:

Points out that [Joel?] Spiller's article, 'Hyposulphite of Ammonia for fixing,' is 'copied verbatim' from a work of JH's.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles G. B. Daubeny
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1868 or 1869]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.28
Summary:

Printed prospectus for volume of poems on Natural History and Physical Science.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
William Rutter Dawes
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[8 January 1868]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.126
Summary:

Is grateful for his prompt reply about his father's papers on double-stars. Had no idea that Angelo Secchi's Means were so inaccurate. Gives the principle on which his own Means are based. The weather has been wretched and most unsuitable for any observations.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Friedrich August Theodor Winnecke
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[8 January 1868]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.272
Summary:

Needs some information about the astronomical sweeps carried out by JH's father, William. FW comments about the location and shape of some nebulae, and what seem to be differences with other catalogues.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Henry Fox Talbot
Date:
[12 January 1868]
Source of text:
Science Museum Talbt 1/44
Summary:

Asks WT whether WT made a certain claim about the spectrum of strontium. Recounts observations of the strontium spectrum made by JH in 1822.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Photographic News
Date:
[31 January 1868]
Source of text:
Photographic News, 12 (Jan. 31, 1868), 57
Summary:

Discusses the action of hyposulphite of ammonia on muriate of silver. Gives directions for preparing hyposulfite of silver.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Georg Adolph Erman
Date:
[1868 or later]
Source of text:
RS:HS 7.113
Summary:

Comments on the bad habits creeping into the language of the German Academies. Sends list of papers and also a transcript of GE's paper for the Astronomische Nachrichten.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
John Herschel (son)
Date:
[26 January 1868]
Source of text:
JHS 6.50
Summary:

Has heard from Emma, son William's wife, that the solar eclipse will occur in the rainy season, and thus will not likely be visible [see JH's 1867-9-29]; JH is wondering if the equipment from the R.S.L. arrived safely.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
John Gorham
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[14 January 1868]
Source of text:
RS:HS 8.223
Summary:

Some years ago JH witnessed his experiments on the rotation of discs. Has written a paper on this subject and would be glad of his comments on whether he has chosen the right forms for the colors of the circle.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Miles Joseph Berkeley
Date:
--1868?
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.274, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project
Text Online
From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
[…]
Date:
1868
Source of text:
MEL 684132, National Herbarium of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
Text Online
From:
George Bentham
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
18 January 1868
Source of text:
RB MSS M4, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
Text Online
From:
George Story
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
29 January 1868
Source of text:
DX19, Cotton/Story papers, University of Tasmania Archives, Hobart
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
Text Online
From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
William Hyndman
Date:
31 January 1868
Source of text:
No. 4125, unit 733, VPRS 3181/P Town Clerk's file series 1, VA 511 Melbourne, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project