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Herschel2386

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Edward Sabine
Date:
[1 September 1859]
Source of text:
RS:HS 23.274
Summary:

JH cannot attend Aberdeen [B.A.A.S.] meeting due to severe illness. Will try to sketch draft of response to application to British and foreign governments for cooperation in magnetic projects.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4155

From:
Adam and Charles Black
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[26 September 1859]
Source of text:
Harvard: Houghton AAH 67m-67 (48)
Summary:

Will allow more pages for the text of JH's Telescope.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4856

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[9 September 1859]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.243 (C: RGO 6.694.535)
Summary:

Encloses a paper and gives his comments on it.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7114

From:
Augustus De Morgan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[6 September 1859]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.331
Summary:

Elizabeth Baily died this morning, quietly and painlessly. Her last few weeks had been saddened by delusions.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7115

From:
Augustus De Morgan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[9 September 1859]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.332
Summary:

All arrangements have been made for the burial of Elizabeth Baily. When did JH first become acquainted with Francis Baily? Gives his own earliest recollections. Has now placed all his books on their shelves.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7116

From:
Augustus De Morgan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[18 September 1859]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.333
Summary:

Hears that JH is to inherit Baily's house. Recalls how he first met W. H. Wollaston and Francis Baily.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel849

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Margaret Brodie Herschel
Date:
[23 September 1859]
Source of text:
JHS 4.1
Summary:

About the impending death of someone they both hold dear; the nature of the Scots, and an inheritance from Elizabeth Baily.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel851

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Margaret Brodie Herschel
Date:
15 September [1859]
Source of text:
JHS 4.3
Summary:

JH is reorganizing house while MH is away; other family news; MH is comforting someone very ill.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel9205

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Whewell
Date:
[4 September 1859]
Source of text:
TC, Camb. Add. Ms.a.20798 (C: RS:HS 23.275)
Summary:

Asks WW to check JH's draft report for the Meteorological and Magnetic Committee. Illness will keep him from attending the B.A.A.S. meeting.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel9206

From:
William Whewell
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[29 September 1859]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.214
Summary:

Asks JH for his impressions of the Aberdeen B.A.A.S. meeting and of U. J. J. Leverrier's claim that there may be an intermercurial planet.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Tyndall1636

From:
John Tyndall
To:
William Frederick Pollock
Date:
Sunday
Source of text:
MS JT/1/TYP/6/1915-16, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Tyndall1637

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Thomas Archer Hirst
Date:
Sep. 1859.
Source of text:
MS JT/1/T/653, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Tyndall1638

From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
5th. September 1859
Source of text:
MS JT/1/TYP/9/2893-4, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Tyndall1639

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
7th. Sep. 1859.
Source of text:
HP 8:40; MS JT/1/TYP/9/2895, IC; RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Tyndall1640

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Saturday
Source of text:
MS JT/1/TYP/12/4157; 5:3639, RI; Faraday Correspondence
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Tyndall1641

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Thomas Archer Hirst
Date:
21st. Sept 1859
Source of text:
MS JT/1/T/653; MS JT/1/HTYP/518, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Tyndall1642

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Juliet Pollock
Date:
Saturday night
Source of text:
MS JT/1/T/1217; MS JT/1/TYP/6/1923-4, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
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FVM-59-09-00

From:
Messrs Smith & Adamson
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
September 1859
Source of text:
M59/9147, unit 747, VPRS 1189 inward registered correspondence, VA 475 Chief Secretary's Department, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
Text Online

FVM-59-09-00a

From:
James Clark
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
September 1859
Source of text:
M59/9320, unit 747, VPRS 1189 inward registered correspondence, VA 475 Chief Secretary's Department, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
Text Online

FVM-59-09-00b

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
John O'Shanassy
Date:
September 1859
Source of text:
No. 10092, vol. 1859 M, VPRS 1168 registers of inward correspondence, VA 475 Chief Secretary's Department, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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