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Herschel5825

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie, Jr.
Date:
[13 June 1867]
Source of text:
RS:HS 4.294 & 24.201
Summary:

Comments on a paper recently submitted to him by BB on chemical notation.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel5881

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Jacques Babinet
Date:
[7 March 1867]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.190
Summary:

Not willing to be involved in translation of French work on astronomy [see JB's 1867-2].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6186

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Joseph Baxendell
Date:
[2 February 1867]
Source of text:
RS:HS 3.311 & 24.186
Summary:

Regarding gales of wind and their relation to violent changes in barometric pressure.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6636

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Elizabeth Colling
Date:
[4 February 1867]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.187
Summary:

Is in poor health; laments poor reception of his translation of the Iliad.

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

Herschel6638

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Elizabeth Colling
Date:
[9 December 1867]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.211
Summary:

Comments on reports of meteor sightings from the United States and Italy; explains why one may see a satellite of Jupiter where there is none.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6686

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
John Henry Dallmeyer
Date:
[16 February 1867]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.4 & 24.188
Summary:

Is he acquainted with his ordinary reading glass? Gives details. Always carries a small one around with him for reading small print; thinks there would be a good market for them.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6688

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
John Henry Dallmeyer
Date:
[19 February 1867]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.6 & 24.189
Summary:

Outlining suitability of various types of glass for optical work. Gives details of theories of his reading lenses and calls attention to one of his own papers in the R.S.P.T. for 1821.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7198

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Augustus De Morgan
Date:
[20 March 1867]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.191
Summary:

Comments on mathematical comments AD has sent JH; JH is sorry to see AD has retired from his professorship; comments on the hard winter.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7202

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Augustus De Morgan
Date:
[25 April 1867]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.193
Summary:

Comments on AD's theorem [see AD's 1867-4-20].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7210

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Augustus De Morgan
Date:
[16 October 1867]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.207
Summary:

Requests AD send JH an astronomical drinking song.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8356

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Jacques Babinet
Date:
[5 March 1867]
Source of text:
RS:HS 19.158
Summary:

No mention of Emmanuel Liais's L'espace céleste in English journals. Contact London publishers to find translator for it. Alexander Herschel is now professor of natural philosophy at Andersonian Institution in Glasgow. Hopes JB's elegant method of measuring gravity by torsion will not die before being put into practice.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8357

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Elizabeth Drummond [Jr.]
Date:
[2 November 1867]
Source of text:
RS:HS 19.159 (C: RS:HS 24.209)
Summary:

JH is 'shaky & feeble.' Pleased with biography of ED's brother Thomas. JH's son John and bride departed today for India. Deaths of JH's contemporaries. Describes Constance Herschel's whooping cough.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8417

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Rudolf Wolf
Date:
[21 April 1867]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.192
Summary:

Thanks RW for sending RW's Mittheilungen and RW's Neue Untersuchungen. Replies to RW's queries about JH's ancestry and about the current state of JH's father's largest reflecting telescope.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8418

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Rudolf Wolf
Date:
[4 May 1867]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.196
Summary:

Thanks RW for sending him a photograph of RW; sends photograph of JH in return.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8420

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Rudolf Wolf
Date:
[7 July 1867]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.202
Summary:

Thanks RW for sending copies of RW's memoir on JH's father. States that JH has now revised a catalogue of all JH's father's double stars.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel852

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Margaret Brodie Herschel
Date:
[1867]-5-20 or earli
Source of text:
JHS 4.4
Summary:

Family news; JH is very proud of the accomplishments of young daughter Constance Anne.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel853

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Margaret Brodie Herschel
Date:
[30 May 1867]
Source of text:
JHS 4.5
Summary:

News of many of the children, as well as news from London.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel862

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Margaret Brodie Herschel
Date:
[29 April 1867]
Source of text:
JHS 4.14
Summary:

About traveling to Halton; JH is finding working on his double star catalogue fairly severe drudgery.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8699

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Mrs. Socker[?]
Date:
[13 April 1867]
Source of text:
Bodleian Library, Oxford
Summary:

Delighted to receive Memoir of Maria Edgeworth [ed. by F. A. Edgeworth, 1867]. Praises Edgeworth. Whom should JH thank for this gift?

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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