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Faraday3149

From:
Duc de Plaisance
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
30 May 1856
Source of text:
RS MS 241, f.144
Summary:

No summary available.

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Faraday Project
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Faraday3150

From:
Jean-Baptiste-André Dumas
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
c.30 May 1856
Source of text:
IET MS SC 2
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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HENSLOW-278

From:
J. S. Henslow
To:
William Whewell
Date:
6 May 1856
Source of text:
Trinity College Cambridge Whewell Add.Ms.a.65: 35-36
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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HENSLOW-442

From:
W. B. Carpenter
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
12 May 1856
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 71
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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HENSLOW-443

From:
Charles Roach Smith
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
12 May 1856
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 327
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project

Herschel12582

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
B. Osborne
Date:
[5 May 1856]
Source of text:
RS:HS 23.169
Summary:

The Admiralty has given a grant for an astronomical expedition to the Peak of Teneriffe, and JH is now providing a list of details that should be observed in such an expedition.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel12792

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
John Gellibrand Hubbard
Date:
[16 May 1856]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0197; Reel 1054
Summary:

Responds to Hubbard's inquiry about coinage.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel13499

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Unidentified
Date:
[5 May 1856]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0733; Reel 1089
Summary:

JH's recommendations to Admiralty regarding experiments to be conducted by expedition to Teneriffe led by C. P. Smyth.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel14056

From:
John Gellibrand Hubbard
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[13 May 1856]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0278; Reel 1087
Summary:

Where in JH's evidence to Parliamentary Decimal Commission did JH give number of coins that require recoinage?

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel14829

From:
T[?] P[?]
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[14 May 1856]
Source of text:
Hydrographic Office Letter Book
Summary:

Writes on behalf of the Lords of the Admiralty to thank JH for his suggestions relating to C. P. Smyth's trip to the peak of Teneriffe.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4841

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[17 May 1856]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.230
Summary:

Relating his experiments with the zenith tube.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4957

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Thomas Andrews
Date:
[12 May 1856]
Source of text:
RS:HS 23.171
Summary:

Formal note of thanks for TA's paper on ozone.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4958

From:
Thomas Andrews
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[21 May 1856]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.344
Summary:

Thanks for JH's kind comments on TA's paper on ozone.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6425

From:
William Benjamin Carpenter
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[22 May 1856]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.193
Summary:

Was elected yesterday to the Registrarship of London University, and thanks JH for his support.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7044

From:
Augustus De Morgan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[11 May 1856]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.281
Summary:

Has not heard from him for a long time. Thought that the Government was going to turn the R.A.S. out of Somerset House. There is someone to come to the rescue of Richard Sheepshanks. Has not seen Charles Babbage for many years. Their views are incompatible. C. P. Smyth is off to Teneriffe so now is the time for JH to make suggestions. Has set up a committee to make by-laws.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7045

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Augustus De Morgan
Date:
[19 May 1856]
Source of text:
RS:HS 23.172
Summary:

Comments on the state of JH's health, and on things astronomical and mathematical.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7046

From:
Augustus De Morgan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[20 May 1856]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.282
Summary:

Is glad to hear his account of facts. Always thought he would recover his health. Gives one of his own mathematical formulae. Has no idea how the Decimal Coinage Commission is progressing.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7757

From:
[F. Soring?]
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[26 May 1856]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 14/1.227 verso; Reel 10
Summary:

[Form letter] Offers to send Commercium epistolicum J. Collins et aliorum... (1856), by J. B. Biot and Francisque Lefort, a critical edition of works by mathematician John Collins.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7876

From:
Henry Warburton
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[7 May 1856]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.80
Summary:

HW neglected to state principle from which he derived equation for eliminating differences. Expresses it in formula.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7877

From:
Henry Warburton
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[15 May 1856]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.81
Summary:

Glad that JH shows renewed interest in mathematics. Besides HW, JH, Augustus De Morgan, and Mr. Gerard, there appear to be no others interested in researching the differences of the powers of zero. Gave outline of HW's paper at Cambridge Philosophical Society. Plans to revise it according to suggestions from JH and De Morgan.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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