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Herschel4779

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[13 October 1846]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.169
Summary:

Is thinking of writing an account of the new planet.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4780

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[26 October 1846]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.170 (C: RGO 6.159.370)
Summary:

Regarding the slow motion screw in declination.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4781

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[30 October 1846]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.171
Summary:

Regarding his paper about the new planet. Attacks by article in the Athenaeum.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6241

From:
E. L. B[?]
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
29 October [1846]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.2
Summary:

Family news.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6508

From:
Spencer J. A. Compton
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1 October 1846]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.270
Summary:

Will place J. F. Encke's request before the Council, but sees no difficulty in copying the letters at Somerset House. Is waiting for the return of George Peacock (Dean of Ely) before summoning council.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6757

From:
William Rutter Dawes
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[6 October 1846]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.75
Summary:

Thanks for sending J. R. Hind's letter about the new planet. Erected his equatorial on Saturday. Gives some of his observations on Saturn. Has sent William Lassell a prism by Georg Merz.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6758

From:
William Rutter Dawes
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[31 October 1846]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.76
Summary:

Thanks for the copy of the Guardian containing his own letter about the discovery of the new planet. Award of the Copley medal to U. J. J. Leverrier should allay French jealousies. Gives details of his own observations.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8904

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
the Athenaeum
Date:
[1 October 1846]
Source of text:
Athenaeum, #988 (Oct. 3, 1846), 1091
Summary:

[The discovery of Neptune having been just announced], JH calls attention to JH's recent suggestion to the B.A.A.S. that such a discovery was imminent; states that in 1842 JH had discussed the idea of a trans-Uranian planet with F. W. Bessel, and that [J. C.] Adams of Cambridge had carried out an investigation comparable to that of U. J. J. Leverrier.

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