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RS-MM-000555

From:
Edward Sabine
To:
Edward Sabine
Date:
9 August 1864
Source of text:
MM/10/81, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

RS-MM-000850

From:
Edward Sabine
To:
Edward Sabine
Date:
18 October 1865
Source of text:
MM/14/83, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

DCP-LETT-4660

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Sabine
Date:
5 Nov [1864]
Source of text:
Glenbow Archives, Calgary (M 4843, file 17)
Summary:

Thanks ES in connection with award [of Copley Medal].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

RS-MM-000542

From:
Adolph Theodor Kupffer
To:
Edward Sabine
Date:
29 September 1862
Source of text:
MM/10/66, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

RS-MM-000543

From:
Adolph Theodor Kupffer
To:
Edward Sabine
Date:
4 October 1862
Source of text:
MM/10/67, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

RS-MM-000544

From:
Adolph Theodor Kupffer
To:
Edward Sabine
Date:
6 October 1862
Source of text:
MM/10/68, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

RS-MM-000545

From:
Adolph Theodor Kupffer
To:
Edward Sabine
Date:
17 October 1862
Source of text:
MM/10/69, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

RS-MM-000546

From:
Adolph Theodor Kupffer
To:
Edward Sabine
Date:
3/15 July 1863
Source of text:
MM/10/70, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

RS-MM-000547

From:
Adolph Theodor Kupffer
To:
Edward Sabine
Date:
24 November 1863
Source of text:
MM/10/71, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

RS-MM-000548

From:
Adolph Theodor Kupffer
To:
Edward Sabine
Date:
24 November 1864
Source of text:
MM/10/72, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

RS-MM-000870

From:
James Thomas Walker
To:
Edward Sabine
Date:
c.1860s
Source of text:
MM/14/105, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

Herschel12948

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Edward Sabine
Date:
[1864-6-9 or later]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0360.1; Reel 1054
Summary:

Pendulum experiments to be conducted at stations of Great Indian Trigonometrical Survey.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel12959

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Edward Sabine
Date:
[3 March 1862]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0371; Reel 1054
Summary:

Asks help of R.S.L. in reducing all observations to 1870 in JH's catalog of nebulae. Estimates cost at £10.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel12960

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Edward Sabine
Date:
[16 August 1862]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0373; Reel 1054
Summary:

Needs to know soon if R.S.L. will approve grant to expand JH's catalog of nebulae. Otherwise G. B. Airy will dismiss man employed to do those computations. [JH annotation: Sent similar letter to G. G. Stokes on same date.]

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel12961

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Edward Sabine
Date:
[30 December 1862]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0374; Reel 1054
Summary:

[Rough draft (1p) crossed out, followed by:] Confidential propostion that G. B. Airy submitted to Board of Visitors is inappropriate. Queen's warrant does not empower Board to consider such matters.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel12962

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Edward Sabine
Date:
[30 December 1862]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0375; Reel 1054
Summary:

Objects to Board of Visitors acting as 'self-constituted Court-Martial' to examine personal conduct of Board's chairman [James South], whom G. B. Airy no longer recognizes as competent. [JH notes that he did not send this letter, but kept it because it gave the reasons behind the shorter form [TxU:H/L-0374], which he preferred.]

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel12963

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Edward Sabine
Date:
[11 June 1864]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0376; Reel 1054 (C: RS:HS 24.47)
Summary:

Plans to confer with [J. T.] Walker and F. A. T. Winnecke from Pulkovo to learn of Russian pendulum experiments before reporting to R.S.L. council. J. H. Pratt's measurement of polar axis and theory about earth's center of gravity.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel12964

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Edward Sabine
Date:
[29 March 1865]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0377; Reel 1054
Summary:

Objects to plan to move Royal Observatory to site other than Greenwich, but will defer to G. B. Airy's opinion. JH's deteriorating health.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1597

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Edward Sabine
Date:
[10 December 1862]
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library 7656/H702 (C: Rosse Papers K2.)
Summary:

Extensive comments on the type and construction of telescope to be supplied to Melbourne University.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1598

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Edward Sabine
Date:
[6 March 1863]
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library 7656/RS374A
Summary:

Supports G. P. Bond of Harvard College for foreign membership of R.S.L.; proposes H. E. Sainte-Claire Deville for the Rumford Medal, for his development of a high temperature laboratory furnace applied to metallurgy and the 'disseverance' of the hydrogen and oxygen of water.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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