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Herschel2124

From:
Patrick Francis Robertson
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[7 August 1867]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.371
Summary:

Thanks JH for translation of [Friedrich] Schiller's 'The Walk.' Reform bill will again be before the House tomorrow. Denounces mischief of the Radicals.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel233

From:
Edward James Stone
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[30 August 1867]
Source of text:
RGO 6.412.242
Summary:

The Berlin Academy has decided to publish Charles Rümker's observations, thus removing the problem from the hands of the B.A.A.S. [see JH's 1866-7-13].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel2484

From:
James Samuelson
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[27 August 1867]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.338
Summary:

[Charles] Darwin and [William] Fairbairn have started a certificate describing JS's contributions to science. Asks whether JH would sign it.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel2507

From:
Angelo Secchi
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[11 August 1867]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.417
Summary:

In London for a short time. Wants to meet JH and will come to see him the following day.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel2594

From:
William Selwyn
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[22 August 1867]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.492
Summary:

Thanks JH for a 'corrected edition of Deambulatz.' [?] Angelo Secchi has been at Cambridge. Is making composite photographs showing the activity of the sun and planets in the last year.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4917

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[14 August 1867]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.305
Summary:

Regarding earth currents and galvanic registers. Results of recent experiments on these.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel5027

From:
Matthew Arnold
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[5 August 1867]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.408
Summary:

Thanking him for sending the translation of Friedrich Schiller [Schillers Spaziergang, Translated into Latin Verse, 1867].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6637

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Elizabeth Colling
Date:
[20 August 1867]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.205
Summary:

Thanks EC for her sonnet; talks about solar photography.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7204

From:
Augustus De Morgan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[8 August 1867]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.394
Summary:

Many thanks for the Latin translation of Frederick Schiller's poem. Comments on various points of poetry. Further about the Pascal-Newton letters. Regarding William Pearson and the founding of the R.A.S.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7205

From:
Augustus De Morgan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[15 August 1867]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.395
Summary:

Further concerning the Newton-Pascal letters. Comments on the various line endings for poetry. Why in Runic Almanacs the days of the week begin with Monday.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7206

From:
Augustus De Morgan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[29 August 1867]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.396
Summary:

Regarding David Brewster and the inaccuracies in his life of Isaac Newton.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7754

From:
Norman Macleod
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[20 August 1867]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 14/1.195-196 verso; Reel 10
Summary:

Portrait of William Herschel will be returned after Second National Portrait Exhibition closes 31 Aug. Gratitude for JH's loan.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8547

From:
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[2 August 1867]
Source of text:
BostonPubLib Ms.Am.230
Summary:

Expresses thanks for JH sending JH's translation of Homer's Iliad. Endorses JH's use of hexameter verse. Looks forward to reading it.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8704

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Caroline Emily Mary Herschel
Date:
[21 August 1867]
Source of text:
Bodleian Library, Oxford
Summary:

Sending various publications by JH on light. [Responding to CH's queries], explains the nature of color and the action of the sun and stars in producing heat and light.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel9643

From:
Leonor Fresnel
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[4 August 1867]
Source of text:
RS:HS 7.382
Summary:

Engaged in bringing out a new edition of A. J. Fresnel's works and has some queries.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel9644

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Leonor Fresnel
Date:
[7 August 1867]
Source of text:
RS:HS 7.383 & 24.204
Summary:

Answers LF's queries of 4 Aug.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

JHC1229

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Lady Anne Maria Barkly (nee Pratt)
Date:
19 August 1867
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/1 f.262-263, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC1365

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
George Bentham
Date:
2 August 1867
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.157, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC1366

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
George Bentham
Date:
5 August 1867
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.158, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC150

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
30 August 1867
Source of text:
JDH/2/22/1/1 f.27, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

JDH urges Asa Gray to publish his botanical writings as a collection, such a work would help JDH with the preparation of Rubiaceae for GENERA PLANTARUM. He complains that the profusion of botanical literature written in the Unites States of America is left to be catalogued, arranged & distilled by British botanists. JDH's mother [Lady Maria Hooker] is ill in Norwich. No news of [George] Bentham. [Daniel] Oliver has not returned from Skye. JDH has told Milligan to send Gray a set of his Tasmanian specimens.

Contributor:
Hooker Project
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