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Herschel5675

From:
Johann Elert Bode
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[17 October 1820]
Source of text:
RS:HS 4.163
Summary:

Thanks JH for news of newly formed Astronomical Society; will be pleased to be a foreign correspondent for it.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel5774

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
David Brewster
Date:
[30 January 1820]
Source of text:
RS:HS 20.82
Summary:

Arrangements for paying dues to the Royal Society of Edinburgh; some comments about light passing through crystals.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel5775

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
David Brewster
Date:
[3 February 1820]
Source of text:
RS:HS 20.84
Summary:

Clarifies areas of disagreement with DB in JH's explanation of the results of colored tints of light passing through polarizing crystals.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel5776

From:
David Brewster
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[11 February 1820]
Source of text:
RS:HS 4.251
Summary:

Thanks for the extract of his paper. Comments on this and his own discoveries on the polarization of light. His fees for the articles will pay his subscription to the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel5777

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
David Brewster
Date:
[19 April 1820]
Source of text:
RS:HS 4.252-4 (C: RS:HS 20.90)
Summary:

Sending all his papers on the deviations of tints, suitably amended to give DB due acknowledgement. Queries regarding some of DB's statements. Supports his theories in a new paper he has written for the Cambridge Philosophical Society.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel5882

From:
Agnes Baillie
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[26 March 1820]
Source of text:
RS:HS 3.7
Summary:

Invitation to dine with them; Sir Walter Scott is expected as well.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel5883

From:
Agnes Baillie
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[4 April 1820]
Source of text:
RS:HS 3.8
Summary:

Invitation to spend the morning with them on the day they are expecting Sir Walter Scott.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel5884

From:
Agnes Baillie
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[26 April 1820]
Source of text:
RS:HS 3.9
Summary:

Further invitation to breakfast with them and Sir Walter Scott.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel5892

From:
Joanna Baillie
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[9 April 1820]
Source of text:
RS:HS 3.17
Summary:

Invitation to dine with them and Sir Walter Scott.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel5911

From:
Francis Baily
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[22 January 1820]
Source of text:
RS:HS 3.34
Summary:

Regarding the printing and distribution of JH's Address.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel5912

From:
Francis Baily
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[24 January 1820]
Source of text:
RS:HS 3.35
Summary:

Is sending copies of the Address and circular, and two copies of his own pamphlets.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel5913

From:
Francis Baily
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[22 February 1820]
Source of text:
RS:HS 3.36
Summary:

Has sent the Address to the printers for the corrections to be made. Committee meeting on Tuesday next. Hopes JH can come.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel5914

From:
Francis Baily
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[11 March 1820]
Source of text:
RS:HS 3.37
Summary:

Is sending the books. News of the Committee meeting. Relations of the Astronomical Society with Sir Joseph Banks and the R.S.L.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel5915

From:
Francis Baily
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[19 June 1820]
Source of text:
RS:HS 3.38
Summary:

Is making arrangements for the Committee meeting. Will bring some copies of the Eclipse for JH.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6326

From:
Alexis Bouvard
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1 June 1820]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.88
Summary:

Is grateful for his letter and also for sending the regulations of the Astronomical Society on which he sees the names of many distinguished men. Accepts with gratitude the offer of his book.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6454

From:
Thomas Catton
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
3] April [1820
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.222
Summary:

The Lucasian professorship is vacant. Thinks JH is worthy of this position. Would like to be proposed a member of the Astronomical Society.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7303

From:
Jean-Baptiste Delambre
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1 June 1820]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.482
Summary:

Has received the rules of the Astronomical Society. Gives full details about himself.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7319

From:
George Dollond
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[21 November 1820]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.497
Summary:

Returns the polarizing apparatus by the Windsor coach, and is grateful for the loan of it. Hopes to supply Dr. Jackson with a suitable instrument. Sending a paper on parallel plates.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7403

From:
Johann Wilhelm Pastorff
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1820 to 1824]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 6/2.10 verso; Reel 8
Summary:

Sends paper on photospheres to be read to Astronomical Society.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7404

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Johann Wilhelm Pastorff
Date:
[1820 to 1824]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 6/2.10 verso; Reel 8
Summary:

JH presented JP's paper on photospheres to Society.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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