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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Text Online
From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Edward Sabine
Date:
15 October 1862
Source of text:
RS MS MC 6.261
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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