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From:
Edward Sabine
To:
William Sharpey
Date:
3 July 1868
Source of text:
MM/19/47, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
Edward Sabine
To:
William Sharpey
Date:
23 February 1869
Source of text:
MM/19/48, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
Edward Sabine
To:
William Page Wood, Baron Hatherley
Date:
6 November 1869
Source of text:
MM/19/49, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
Edward Sabine
To:
Joseph Hodgson
Date:
19 October 1860
Source of text:
MM/19/68, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
Edward Sabine
To:
Walter White
Date:
20 July 1863
Source of text:
MM/21/82, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
Edward Sabine
To:
'My dear Sir'
Date:
11 August 1862
Source of text:
MM/22/75, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society
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:
Edward Sabine
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[27 April 1860]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0527.1; Reel 1093
Summary:

Sent proof for vol. 2 of St. Helena observations to JH. JH's promised article in Edinburgh Review on progress in science of terrestrial magnetism. Embarrassing delay by government in responding to Prince Albert's request for five-year magnetic survey is resulting in loss of interest among prospective directors. Proposal by Americans to assume leadership of survey in North America. Dutch observatory in Java and Jesuit observatory in Cuba.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Edward Sabine
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[15 July 1860]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0527.2; Reel 1093
Summary:

A. D. Bache reports that U.S. will establish magnetic observatory in Washington Territory. ES is preparing instructions for North American survey. Suggests change to JH's proposed article on terrestrial magnetism in Edinburgh Review.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Edward Sabine
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[27 July 1860]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0527.3; Reel 1093
Summary:

[Government refusal to support five-year magnetic survey] has eliminated services of T. W. Blakiston and Thomas Hull as directors of two magnetic observatories. Instruments for Montreal observatory. Recent magnetic changes in North America. Success of elder B. C. Brodie's eye operation.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Edward Sabine
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[18 August 1860]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0527.4; Reel 1093
Summary:

Bibliography of works on terrestrial magnetism published in past four years.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Edward Sabine
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[10 September 1860]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0527.5; Reel 1093
Summary:

Sent packet to JH last week containing publications listed in ES's bibliography of recent magnetic surveys.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Edward Sabine
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[6 December 1860]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0527.6; Reel 1093
Summary:

Summary of research on terrestrial magnetism in other countries. Will send paper on magnetic storms to JH.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Edward Sabine
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[18 December 1860]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0527.7; Reel 1093
Summary:

Sends sample sheets of magnetic reductions from continual observations photographed at Kew. Explains reduction formulas. Will send to JH new paper by ES on lunar diurnal variation. Carlo Matteucci reports interest by new government in Naples in reviving meteorological observatory there.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project