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Herschel14364

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

Herschel14365

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

Herschel14428

From:
Edward Sabine
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[5 September 1859]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0526.9; Reel 1093
Summary:

Encloses ES's résumé of magnetic surveys accomplished by U.K., written to encourage similar surveys in China and North America. Perhaps JH may append this to JH's report.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel14731

From:
John Bullar
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[22 September 1859]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0922; Reel 1083
Summary:

Shares JB's experiences with visual abnormalities similar to those described in JH's 'Sensorial Vision' (1858). Encloses copy of related subject that JB found in Section 45 of John Locke's 'On the Conduct of the Understanding.'

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel225

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[9 September 1859]
Source of text:
RGO 6.407.194
Summary:

About GA's plans to attend the B.A.A.S. meeting in Leeds.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel2386

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Edward Sabine
Date:
[1 September 1859]
Source of text:
RS:HS 23.274
Summary:

JH cannot attend Aberdeen [B.A.A.S.] meeting due to severe illness. Will try to sketch draft of response to application to British and foreign governments for cooperation in magnetic projects.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4155

From:
Adam and Charles Black
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[26 September 1859]
Source of text:
Harvard: Houghton AAH 67m-67 (48)
Summary:

Will allow more pages for the text of JH's Telescope.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4856

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[9 September 1859]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.243 (C: RGO 6.694.535)
Summary:

Encloses a paper and gives his comments on it.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7114

From:
Augustus De Morgan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[6 September 1859]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.331
Summary:

Elizabeth Baily died this morning, quietly and painlessly. Her last few weeks had been saddened by delusions.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7115

From:
Augustus De Morgan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[9 September 1859]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.332
Summary:

All arrangements have been made for the burial of Elizabeth Baily. When did JH first become acquainted with Francis Baily? Gives his own earliest recollections. Has now placed all his books on their shelves.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7116

From:
Augustus De Morgan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[18 September 1859]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.333
Summary:

Hears that JH is to inherit Baily's house. Recalls how he first met W. H. Wollaston and Francis Baily.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel849

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Margaret Brodie Herschel
Date:
[23 September 1859]
Source of text:
JHS 4.1
Summary:

About the impending death of someone they both hold dear; the nature of the Scots, and an inheritance from Elizabeth Baily.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel851

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Margaret Brodie Herschel
Date:
15 September [1859]
Source of text:
JHS 4.3
Summary:

JH is reorganizing house while MH is away; other family news; MH is comforting someone very ill.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel9205

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Whewell
Date:
[4 September 1859]
Source of text:
TC, Camb. Add. Ms.a.20798 (C: RS:HS 23.275)
Summary:

Asks WW to check JH's draft report for the Meteorological and Magnetic Committee. Illness will keep him from attending the B.A.A.S. meeting.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel9206

From:
William Whewell
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[29 September 1859]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.214
Summary:

Asks JH for his impressions of the Aberdeen B.A.A.S. meeting and of U. J. J. Leverrier's claim that there may be an intermercurial planet.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Tyndall1636

From:
John Tyndall
To:
William Frederick Pollock
Date:
Sunday
Source of text:
MS JT/1/TYP/6/1915-16, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Tyndall1637

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Thomas Archer Hirst
Date:
Sep. 1859.
Source of text:
MS JT/1/T/653, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Tyndall1638

From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
5th. September 1859
Source of text:
MS JT/1/TYP/9/2893-4, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Tyndall1639

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
7th. Sep. 1859.
Source of text:
HP 8:40; MS JT/1/TYP/9/2895, IC; RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Tyndall1640

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Saturday
Source of text:
MS JT/1/TYP/12/4157; 5:3639, RI; Faraday Correspondence
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
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