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Herschel1920

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
[Joseph Goodall?]
Date:
n.d.
Source of text:
WT B.18
Summary:

Accepts an invitation to dinner.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1926

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Unidentified
Date:
n.d.
Source of text:
DMC 695A.885.3
Summary:

Comments on the use of a particular phrase and its italicization.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3033

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Thomas Edward Colebrooke
Date:
n.d.
Source of text:
unknown
Summary:

Reports on considerations that led to the election in 1824 of Henry T. Colebrooke to the presidency of the Astronomical Society.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3120

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Adolphe Quetelet
Date:
n.d.
Source of text:
Académie belgique: #29
Summary:

Tells AQ of his daughters's fevers. Rejoices in the power of science to distract him temporarily from worries. Hopes to complete his Catalogus generalis nebularum by end of R.S.L. session.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3127

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Sotheby
Date:
n.d.
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.222b
Summary:

Replies positively to WS's invitation to a party.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3129

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Chairman of R.S.L. Physical Committee
Date:
n.d.
Source of text:
RS RR.1.234
Summary:

Recommends unreservedly for publication in R.S.P.T. papers by G. G. Stokes and Baden Powell.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3344

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Edward Sabine
Date:
n.d.
Source of text:
RS Sa.677
Summary:

Thanks for gelatine [?] paper. Hopes to photograph the sun.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3352

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Edward Sabine
Date:
n.d.
Source of text:
RS Sa.682
Summary:

Invites to dinner. Will try to arrange meeting between ES and Danish hydrographer Captain Lahrtman[?].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3371

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
n.d.
Source of text:
RI 487-8 F3B
Summary:

Discusses dispersive power of enclosed prism.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3407

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
n.d.
Source of text:
RI 367 F3B
Summary:

Maintains opinion that would be improper to append remarks from JH's note to MF's paper.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3476

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Unidentified
Date:
n.d.
Source of text:
RS MM.3.6
Summary:

Fragment of a letter, discussing unity of an R.S.L. committee.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3609

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
[R.S.L. Council]
Date:
n.d.
Source of text:
RS RR.[1?]
Summary:

Reports on and recommends for publication [William?] Baxter's paper detailing experiments 'on living and recently dead animals' to determine signs of current electricity manifested during 'organic process of secretion.'

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4211

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Unidentified
Date:
n.d.
Source of text:
Harvard: Houghton fMS Eng 945 (112)
Summary:

Gives permission for a publisher to copy an engraving for a work by Richard Sheepshanks.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel5412

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Charles Babbage
Date:
n.d.
Source of text:
RS:HS 2.359
Summary:

Copy formula and send it to [Richard?] Taylor.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel5416

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Charles Babbage
Date:
n.d.
Source of text:
RS:HS 2.363
Summary:

Bad news: a Frenchman has submitted a design for a mathematical machine.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel5417

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Charles Babbage
Date:
n.d.
Source of text:
RS:HS 2.364
Summary:

Unable to attend the Astronomical Society meeting. Encloses two papers for him to deal with.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel5421

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Charles Babbage
Date:
n.d.
Source of text:
RS:HS 2.368
Summary:

Hopes to see him in town and then they can go to see Joseph Clement. His observations are being spoilt by bad weather.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel5423

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Charles Babbage
Date:
n.d.
Source of text:
RS:HS 2.370
Summary:

News concerning Edward Ryan.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel5425

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Charles Babbage
Date:
n.d.
Source of text:
RS:HS 2.372
Summary:

Will call on him tomorrow.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel5426

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Charles Babbage
Date:
n.d.
Source of text:
RS:HS 2.373
Summary:

Introducing a Mr. Wartam of the Armenian church at Vienna, who knows CB's work on mathematics.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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