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From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Edward Sabine
Date:
[28 October 1859]
Source of text:
RS:HS 23.281
Summary:

Requests information concerning a letter to the Treasury, which ES had asked JH to write, regarding funding for [meteorological] stations in Vancouver, Shanghai, Newfoundland, and the Falkland Islands.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Edward Sabine
Date:
[8 November 1859]
Source of text:
RS:HS 23.283
Summary:

Will accompany ES to Kew Observatory. Serving as legatee for the recently deceased Elizabeth Baily, sister of Francis Baily.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Edward Sabine
Date:
[13 November 1859]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.252 (C: RS:HS 23.287)
Summary:

Reluctant to recommend undertaking major scientific projects in colonies at government expense. Believes situation there will work itself out.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Edward Sabine
Date:
[15 March 1850]
Source of text:
RS Sa.664
Summary:

Thanks Mrs. Sabine for translation of third volume of Alexander von Humboldt's Kosmos. Admires its author. Questions references in notes. Discusses meeting for Wintringham Committee.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Edward Sabine
Date:
[8 May 1858]
Source of text:
RS Sa.667
Summary:

Describes in detail proceedings of a committee meeting, particularly noting remarks made about ES and stressing committee's wish to see evidence of progress.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Edward Sabine
Date:
[22 May 1850]
Source of text:
RS Sa.663
Summary:

Mentions cirrus cloud formations foreshadowing aurora. Is unable to attend R.S.L. committee meetings and concerned that 'outlying' members be able to relay opinions through letters.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Edward Sabine
Date:
[24 October 1858]
Source of text:
RS MC.5.364
Summary:

Regarding report on magnetic observatories to be laid before R.S.L. president and council.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Edward Sabine
Date:
[10 March 1850]
Source of text:
RS Sa.661-2
Summary:

Thanks to [Francis] Ronalds for supply of paper. Comments on ES's discovery about direction of change in earth's magnetism, relating it to sun's and other electric currents. In this light, discusses auroras. Mentions abolishing of R.S.L. scientific committees and possible successor to John Caldecott.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Edward Sabine
Date:
[23 November 1851]
Source of text:
RS Sa.665
Summary:

Remarks on a correction in manual regarding some fluctuation of heating and cooling.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Edward Sabine
Date:
[25 February 1858]
Source of text:
RS Sa.666
Summary:

Is glad to sign certificate. Complains about tendency of Alexander von Humboldt, whose volume Mrs. Sabine is translating, to ignore other scientists' work.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Edward Sabine
Date:
[24 April 1855]
Source of text:
R.A.S.M.N., 15 (1855), 158-9
Summary:

Recommends use of photography to prepare records of sunspot activity. Makes suggestions on how this could be done most effectively.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Edward Sabine
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
3 September [1859]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0517.8; Reel 1093
Summary:

Returns JH report with one correction, substituting Kazan for North Cape, because [Christopher] Hansteen cannot find Norwegian observers. Will make copies of its final form and take one to B.A.A.S. meeting in Aberdeen. Mr. Bolyani has visited every magnetic observatory in Europe. 1854 was the year of minimum magnetic disturbances in Peking.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Edward Sabine
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
7 September [1859]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0517.9; Reel 1093
Summary:

Sends Council report to be read next week. Instructed printers Taylor & Francis to accept any changes that JH may request. Sent copies of JH's report to Humphrey Lloyd and G. B. Airy. Gives ES's address in Scotland.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Edward Sabine
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
16 November [1850]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0524; Reel 1093
Summary:

Received series of actinometer observations from [Joseph] Dayman aboard Rattlesnake. JH's trip to Continent. Completion of Francis Ronalds's magnetographs. Improved access to Kew Observatory by railway. Next committee meeting. Bakerian lecture by Michael Faraday.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Edward Sabine
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[16 April 1858]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0525.1; Reel 1093
Summary:

Replies to specific requests by committee for summary of benefits from research in terrestrial magnetism and meteorology and for ES's opinion on continuance of observatories. [JH annotation: Routing list to G. B. Airy, George Peacock, and William Whewell.]

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Edward Sabine
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[21 April 1858]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0525.2; Reel 1093
Summary:

Sends proofs of editor's notes from vol. 4 of [Elizabeth J. Sabine's] translation of Alexander von Humboldt's] Cosmos. Assumes that JH and magnetic committee members all have copies of 'Introduction' to vol. 3 of Toronto observations. Managed to clear up 'mystification' in J. B. Biot's account of pendulum experiments.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Edward Sabine
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[27 April 1858]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0525.3; Reel 1093
Summary:

ES's paper on magnetic observatories in colonies is same as 'Introduction' to vol. 3 of Toronto observations. Publisher has delayed [Elizabeth J. Sabine's] translation of vol. 4 of Cosmos; please send JH's copy of 'Editor's Notes' to other members of magnetic committee. J. B. Biot intentionally subordinated English pendulum experiments to French experiments, and Alexander von Humboldt was misled.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Edward Sabine
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[8 May 1858]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0525.4; Reel 1093
Summary:

Current activities at magnetic observatories at Cape of Good Hope, Hobart [Tasmania], and Toronto. Future avenues for research in terrestrial magnetism include correlation with sunspot cycles, annual seasons, parallels of latitude, and lunar position. Urges establishment of many more observing stations. [JH annotation: Routing list to G. B. Airy, George Peacock, and William Whewell.]

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Edward Sabine
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
15 May [1858]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0525.5; Reel 1093
Summary:

Forwards report, just received, of three years of lunar diurnal variation at Cape of Good Hope. [JH annotation: Routing list to G. B. Airy, George Peacock, and William Whewell.]

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Edward Sabine
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[10 June 1858]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0525.6; Reel 1093
Summary:

Will leave London for several weeks when ES's wife is well. Alexander von Humboldt is pleased with English translation of Cosmos. Preparations for magnetic research in Australia, Bavaria, [British] Guiana, and Mauritius. [JH annotation: Routing list to G. B. Airy, George Peacock, and William Whewell.]

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John Herschel Project