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Herschel6722

From:
Humphry Davy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[21 November 1822]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.39
Summary:

Returning sincere thanks for the memorial inscribed with the name of JH's illustrious father. It rests with JH and his companions how posterity will judge the present age.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7304

From:
Jean-Baptiste Delambre
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[6 May 1822]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.483
Summary:

Has received the first book of the Memoirs of the Astronomical Society but had to pay duty on the packet.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7305

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Jean-Baptiste Delambre
Date:
[28 May 1822]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.484 & 20.142
Summary:

Thanks him on behalf of the Astronomical Society for his Histoire de l'astronomie moderne. Gives details of a paper on Arabic manuscripts in the Cambridge Philosophical Transactions. Have D. F. J. Arago and J. N. Nicollet received his letter?

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7777

From:
Nicholas Fuss
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[24 July 1822]
Source of text:
RAS:WH Archive 1/13.F.12; Reel 13
Summary:

Gratitude from Imperial Academy of Sciences for copy of first volume of Astronomical Society's 'Transactions.' Please send future volumes to Mr. Dubatchevski, Prussian consul-general in London. Sent packet to H. J. Walbeck at Åbo.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7795

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Henrik Johan Walbeck
Date:
[22 April 1822]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.10b & 19.13
Summary:

Sends first volume of Astronomical Society's Transactions and JH's paper on aberrations ['On the Aberrations of Compound Lenses.' 1821]. Asks for geodesical results at Ã…bo.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7803

From:
Henrik Johan Walbeck
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[2 August 1822]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.11
Summary:

Received JH's letter [29 Apr. 1821] with 'Memoirs of Astronomical Society' and observations of recent solar eclipse. Has not published eclipse calculations. Convinced that moon's diameter is accurately determined. Latitudes, longitudes for sites in Finland. 1820-22 observations from Ã…bo. Design of new Ã…bo observatory. New instruments from Munich.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8054

From:
Thomas Young
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[7 February 1822]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.321
Summary:

Board of Longitude reluctant to pay for new building at James South's unless South and JH agree to place their observations at Board's disposal.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8055

From:
Thomas Young
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[25 March 1822]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.322
Summary:

Next meeting of Board of Longitude.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8056

From:
Thomas Young
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[4 April 1822]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.323
Summary:

Fears JH misunderstood TY's remark about the injustice of James South's accusation regarding Nautical Almanac. TY was not trying to provoke South's hostility. Sends 'Schumacher's No. 10' for JH's perusal.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8057

From:
Thomas Young
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1822-4[
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.324
Summary:

Asks JH to check accuracy of Nautical Almanac entry for Jupiter's satellites III and IV on 20 Aug. 1819. Thanks for JH's note, but tell James South 'he is bound to give his reasons....'

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8058

From:
Thomas Young
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[4 August 1822]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.325
Summary:

Has no errands for JH in Holland or Flanders. Asks for details on JH's and Charles Babbage's method of determining heights by barometrical observations. Hopes to use this to confirm TY's method by 'my formula deduced from refraction.'

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8094

From:
Franz Xaver von Zach
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[10 January 1822]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.360
Summary:

Thanks JH for the letter informing FZ of his nomination to the Astronomical Society. Describes how JH can send packages to Geneva via the British Consul.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8167

From:
E. Wrangham
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1822-8 or earlier]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.434
Summary:

EW and daughter look forward to visiting Slough on Monday with Mr. Beckwith.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8181

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel
Date:
[22 January 1822]
Source of text:
RS:HS 19.1
Summary:

FB was elected associate of Astronomical Society.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8186

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
David Brewster
Date:
[25 July 1822]
Source of text:
RS:HS 19.4
Summary:

Sends JH's 1823 paper 'Absorption of Light by Coloured Media' to Royal Society of Edinburgh. Approves DB's illustration of polarized light in mineral apophyllite. Corrects DB's quotation from JH's letter regarding crystals observed on Mont Blanc.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8190

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Pierre Simon Laplace
Date:
[21 January 1822]
Source of text:
RS:HS 19.7 (C: 20.131)
Summary:

Advises PL that he has been elected an associate of the Astronomical Society.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8191

From:
Pierre Simon Laplace
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[10 April 1822]
Source of text:
RS:HS 19.7
Summary:

Please forward enclosed papers.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8196

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Thomas Catton
Date:
[18 May 1822]
Source of text:
RS:HS 19.8
Summary:

Received letter and packet from J. J. von Littrow, with request that TC order clock from Robert Molyneux for Littrow. Encloses Littrow's Vienna observations.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8210

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Henry Kater
Date:
[1822-3-28 or later]
Source of text:
RS:HS 19.16 (C: RS:HS 25.13.19)
Summary:

Encloses JH's translation of J. J. Littrow's method of determining latitude by pole star. It already appeared in F. X. Zach's Correspondance astronomique.... Send Francis Beaufort's survey of Karamania coast.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8212

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Henry Kater
Date:
[18 May 1822]
Source of text:
RS:HS 19.18
Summary:

Leaving town for a week. Will read [Francis Beaufort's] book after return. Delighted by 'two instances of good fortune' in one week at Union Place [HK's home].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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