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Herschel7022

From:
Augustus De Morgan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[17 October 1853]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.267
Summary:

Has found a seventeenth-century mathematical manuscript amongst Francis Baily's papers with JH's handwriting on it; can he explain the mystery? There is also a letter from P. L. M. Maupertius to James Bradley, which he proposes sending to the R.S.L.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel705

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Margaret Brodie Herschel
Date:
[24 October 1853]
Source of text:
JHS 1.98
Summary:

News of friends and of daughter Caroline; is sending out letters, papers, money, and JH's 'likeness.'

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel706

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Maria Sophia Herschel
Date:
[31 October 1853]
Source of text:
JHS 1.99
Summary:

Full of messages to JH's wife, Margaret, and bits of family news.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel713

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Margaret Brodie Herschel
Date:
[27 October 1853]
Source of text:
JHS 1.106
Summary:

Comments on the weather, daughter Margaret Louisa's sunny disposition, what magazine to send son Willy, and JH's shortage of shirts.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7778

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Augustus De Morgan
Date:
[28 October 1853]
Source of text:
RAS: MSS Add.119
Summary:

JH's copy of Apollonius's work on conic sections was given to Francis Baily. [P. L. M. de] Maupertuis's letter to [James] Bradley is 'real prize.' Comment on AD's puns. Finds W. R. Hamilton's Quaternions 'horribly metaphysical.'

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel804

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Richarda Airy
Date:
[3 October 1853]
Source of text:
JHS 2.10
Summary:

Making arrangements to send two of JH's sons to Greenwich, so that G. B. Airy can take them to Woolwich [Arsenal] to watch mortar practice.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

JHC1315

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
George Bentham
Date:
15 October 1853
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.88, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

Tyndall0804

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Thomas Archer Hirst
Date:
Monday
Source of text:
MS JT/1/T/571; MS JT/1/HTYP/269, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Tyndall0805

From:
Francois-Napoleon-Marie Moigno
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
3 October 1853
Source of text:
MS JT/1/M/102, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Tyndall0806

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Thomas Archer Hirst
Date:
5th Oct 1853
Source of text:
MS JT/1/T/572; MS JT/1/HTYP/270-71, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Tyndall0807

From:
Thomas Archer Hirst
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Undated
Source of text:
MS JT/2/13b/626, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Tyndall0808

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Thomas Archer Hirst
Date:
Undated
Source of text:
MS JT/1/T/926; MS JT/1/HTYP/272, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Tyndall0809

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Thomas Archer Hirst
Date:
15th. Oct. 1853.
Source of text:
MS JT/1/T/573; MS JT/1/HTYP/273, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Tyndall0810

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Thomas Archer Hirst
Date:
17th Oct. 1853
Source of text:
MS JT/1/T/574; MS JT/1/HTYP/274, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Tyndall0811

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Thomas Archer Hirst
Date:
Undated
Source of text:
MS JT/1/T/575, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Tyndall0812

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Thomas Archer Hirst
Date:
Undated
Source of text:
MS JT/1/T/927; MS JT/1/HTYP/276, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Tyndall0813

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Thomas Archer Hirst
Date:
Undated
Source of text:
MS JT/1/T/576, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Tyndall0814

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Thomas Archer Hirst
Date:
Sunday 30th Oct.
Source of text:
MS JT/1/T/932, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
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FVM-53-10-07

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Andrew Clarke
Date:
7 October 1853
Source of text:
Unit 1, 1853 bundle, VPRS 1258, inward unregistered correspondence to Surveyor General, VA 538 Department of Crown Lands and Survey, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
Text Online

FVM-53-10-18

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
William Hooker
Date:
18 October 1853
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Directors' letters, vol. LXXIV, Australia letters 1851-8, letter no. 137
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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