From:
Heinrich Christian Schumacher
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[26 April 1850]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.408
Summary:
Sends [J. W.] Pastorff's solar observations [see HS's 1850-4-16] as JH's own property.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Sends [J. W.] Pastorff's solar observations [see HS's 1850-4-16] as JH's own property.
Reports that [Annibal] de Gasparis has discovered a new asteroid, Parthenope. Gasparis credits JH with the discovery because JH had proposed the name Parthenope when AG had discovered Hygeia.
Alexander von Humboldt requests that JH answer questions about 'coal sacks (plur.)' [Coal Sack of the Southern heavens].
Wilhelm Struve stayed several days with HS enroute from England to Pulkowa, but forgot to leave copies of [JH's Cape Results] for HS and K. L. C. Rümker. Later, Struve forgot to give these to G. B. Airy, who was visiting Pulkovo, for delivery to HS. HS has not yet seen Cape Results, or J. J. Lalande's catalogue to be sent by B.A.A.S. Happy to publish R.A.S. invitation for observations of solar spots. Short poem about Rümker losing a comet.
Please forward biography of WH and a list of WH's papers to J. W. A. Pfaff, who plans to translate William Herschel's works into German.