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From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Gabriel Stokes
Date:
[27 September 1870]
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library 7656/H726
Summary:

Thanks for grant of £50 from B.A.A.S. for calculations related to request from Georg Erman [see JH's 1870-5-6].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
George Gabriel Stokes
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[28 September 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.78
Summary:

Comments on JH's concerns about actinometric measurements [see JH's 1870-9-20]; recommends the study of periodicity of waves on Atlantic Coast.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Gabriel Stokes
Date:
[7 October 1870]
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library 7656/H730
Summary:

Requests some rewording of B.A.A.S. resolution [see JH's 1870-9-27].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
George Gabriel Stokes
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[8 October 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.79
Summary:

Reports on status of John Robinson's eye following cataract surgery.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
George Griffith
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[4 March 1871]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0921.6; Reel 1083
Summary:

Announces business meeting of Council on 11 Mar.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Edward Vivian
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1870 or earlier]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0950.1; Reel 1083
Summary:

Mrs. W. Vivian is visiting south of France.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
J. Peter Lesley
Date:
[1 September 1870]
Source of text:
APS (no i.d.)
Summary:

Has received, through the good offices of the Smithsonian Institution, a number of back issues as well as current issues of the Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society of Philadelphia. The best way to send these volumes is by way of the Smithsonian.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Augustus De Morgan
Date:
[6 October 1870]
Source of text:
APS B.H435p.25
Summary:

Asks a whole series of silly riddles, and JH complains of not having heard from AD.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Robert Ellis Dudgeon
Date:
[22 January 1871]
Source of text:
APS B.H435p.26 (C: RS:HS 24.348)
Summary:

Comments on use of 'air' lens rather than glass in some circumstances.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[12 May 1870]
Source of text:
RGO 695.462
Summary:

About a grant to support [H. J. R.] Petersen while he carries out the reduction of terrestrial magnetic observations.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Charles Babbage
Date:
[9 December 1870]
Source of text:
BL Aaa 37199.524
Summary:

Thanks CB for receipt of a meteorological work by CB's son [B. H. Babbage], now in Australia. JH says he grows stupider every day and is a 'prisoner in the bonds of bronchitic tyranny.'

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[15 May 1870]
Source of text:
RGO 6.695.464
Summary:

Would support the application for a grant [see JH's 1870-5-12], but would like to see some changes in the way calculations are made.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Roderick Impey Murchison
Date:
[20 December 1870]
Source of text:
BL Aaa 46126.408
Summary:

Is pleased to hear of signs of recovery for RM from his ill health, and all wish him a complete recovery.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Edward Sabine
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[24 April 1870]
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library 7656/H702
Summary:

Note to accompany forwarding of a letter; remarks on T. R. Robinson's upcoming cataract surgery.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Edward Sabine
Date:
[28 April 1870]
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library 7656/H727 (C: RS:HS 24.307)
Summary:

Comments on the effect of great temperature variations on the speculum of a telescope.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[9 February 1870]
Source of text:
RGO 6.258.500
Summary:

Responds that R. A. Proctor's theory [see GA's 1870-2-5] is possible, and explains why.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[20 January 1870]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0645.1
Summary:

Responds to proposals of JH [?], and comments on the problems of the Royal Mint charges for coinage, especially coinage for foreign authorities.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[15 May 1870]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0645.2
Summary:

Refers to several items of correspondence, and then comments on the calculation of Gaussian earth-constants to a higher power than has been done to date.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Alexander J. B. Hope
Date:
[20 April 1871]
Source of text:
WT 63313.3
Summary:

Has despatched a letter on a subject of concern to JH to the editor of the Saturday News, but now feels it is too feeble. Is mostly feeling too ill to write or think for long.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Patrick Francis Robertson
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1 April 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.372
Summary:

Informs JH of plans for JH receiving 5 pounds of coca he had ordered.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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