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Herschel4176

From:
H. Turberville
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[10 October 1869]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.380
Summary:

Describes his visit to Exeter. Hopes JH received a package sent the previous week. Asks question concerning lens making.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel5750

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Edward William Brayley
Date:
[5 October 1869]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.284
Summary:

Comments on liquid and gaseous states of matter and on colloids; appreciates EB's kind words about JH's son Alexander.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel5751

From:
Edward William Brayley
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[2 October 1869]
Source of text:
RS:HS 4.237
Summary:

Regarding Dr. Thomas Andrews's Bakerian lecture and the gaseous and liquid states. Comments on this and his previously stated theory. Has seen Alexander Herschel and thinks he should receive more credit for his work on the Meteor Committee. Scientific education of young people.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel581

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[23 October 1869]
Source of text:
RGO 6.361.631
Summary:

Continues to rail against the imposition of the metric system in India; argues against any change in the British sovereign coin.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6646

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Elizabeth Colling
Date:
[25 October 1869]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.291
Summary:

Thanks for the gift of a sonnet; JH too much in figures to allow the muse to repay the gift.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7226

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Augustus De Morgan
Date:
[15 October 1869]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.285
Summary:

Discusses an exposed case of forgery involving supposed manuscripts of Blaise Pascal and the mathematician Michel Chasles.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7227

From:
Augustus De Morgan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[20 October 1869]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.410
Summary:

Regarding a mistake in his old address. Hopes U. J. J. Leverrier will arrive safely after all. Cold weather is bracing him up.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7228

From:
Augustus De Morgan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[22 October 1869]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.411
Summary:

U. J. J. Leverrier arrived safely yesterday. Michel Chasles has a terrible time ahead of him. Cold weather is doing him good.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7887

From:
Thomas Warner
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[3 October 1869]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.90
Summary:

Sends proof sheet of JH's approval letter before it goes to printer.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8963

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
the Athenaeum
Date:
[10 October 1869]
Source of text:
Athenaeum, #2190 (Oct. 16, 1869), 498
Summary:

Calls attention to James Grahame's History of the United States of North America. Criticizes the Saturday Review for having slighted that work.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8967

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
the Journal of the Society of Arts
Date:
[30 October 1869]
Source of text:
Journal of the Society of Arts, 17 (Nov. 5, 1869), 907
Summary:

Discusses methods of diminishing the effect of a ship's rolling and pitching on a person on a cot or chair on the ship.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel9614

From:
Thomas Fowler
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[6 October 1869]
Source of text:
RS:HS 7.355
Summary:

Is extremely grateful for his comments on his book and will try to incorporate them. His book is intended as an introduction only. Delegates prefer s instead of z.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel9615

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Thomas Fowler
Date:
1869-10
Source of text:
RS:HS 7.356 & 24.283
Summary:

Comments on the proofs of his book that he has received so far. Has been ill and not feeling like intellectual work, so would he request his printer to send no more sheets for the time being.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel9616

From:
Thomas Fowler
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[27 October 1869]
Source of text:
RS:HS 7.357
Summary:

Is extremely grateful for his comments. Agrees with him about the medical examples. All the sheets have now been sent.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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FVM-69-10-05

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Joseph Hooker
Date:
5 October 1869
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1858-70, f. 405
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-69-10-09

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
August Petermann
Date:
9 October 1869
Source of text:
Briefsammlung, Archiv, Justus Perthes’ Verlag, Gotha
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-69-10-10

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Joseph Hooker
Date:
10 October 1869
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1858-70, ff. 406-7
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-69-10-14

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Joseph Hooker
Date:
14 October 1869
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1858-70, f. 408
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-69-10-25

From:
Joseph Henry
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
25 October 1869
Source of text:
Record unit 33, Office of the Secretary, 1865-1891, outgoing correspondence vol. 16, pp. 278-80, Joseph Henry papers, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Washington.Letter not found
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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WCP1837

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Lyell
Date:
1 October 1869?
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL RP 7777
Summary:

About corrections he is making on one of Lyell's books.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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