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Herschel1118

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Gabriel Stokes
Date:
[19 November 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 25.10.15
Summary:

Carefully describes how to pack actinometers being shipped to India.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1119

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Gabriel Stokes
Date:
[19 July 1867]
Source of text:
RS:HS 25.10.16
Summary:

Agrees to allow Lord Oxmantown [Laurence Parsons] to add JH's remarks to Lord Oxmantown's paper.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11196

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Bishop of Kingston
Date:
[14 July 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24:118
Summary:

Is pleased that the bishop found nothing religiously objectionable in JH's two papers, censored by the editor of the Fortnightly Review, in which JH suggested the spiritual origination of force, an idea that JH states has repeatedly appeared in JH's publications.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11208

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
S. Langley
Date:
[25 October 1868]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.97 & 24.235
Summary:

Answer has been delayed as SL's letter was directed to MacMillans. Can be no two opinions on the contribution to scientific knowledge of Sir John Lubbock. Has full confidence in his political opinions.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11305

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Urbain J. J. Leverrier
Date:
[27 January 1867]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.209 (C: RS:HS 11.210 & 24.184)
Summary:

Comments on UL's paper on meteors. Outlines the nebular theory of the solar system.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1135

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
John Wrottesley
Date:
[2 November 1860]
Source of text:
RS:HS 25.12.5
Summary:

Thanks JW for his double star catalogue; JH comments on a few items contained therein.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1136

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
John Wrottesley
Date:
[28 December 1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS 25.12.6
Summary:

Asks JW to sign the memorial for Thomas Maclear, indicating that JH has corrected the matter related to Maclear's pension.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1137

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
John Wrottesley
Date:
[27 January 1863]
Source of text:
RS:HS 25.12.7
Summary:

Informs JW that JH has received notice from H. J. Temple [Lord Palmerston] that Thomas Maclear is to be put on the next list to receive a pension.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1138

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
John Wrottesley
Date:
[21 May 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 25.12.8
Summary:

Mostly about arranging a meeting with both JW and G. B. Airy at the Greenwich Visitation.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11430

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Edward Joseph Lowe
Date:
[13 December 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.341
Summary:

Did not mean to say that meteors describe an exact circle round the sun. Comments on the phenomena of meteors.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11437

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Harriet Lubbock
Date:
[16 November 1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.349 & 23.394
Summary:

Thanks for the perusal of the papers; these show a maturity of thought unexpected in a youth of eighteen. Comments on the moral questions included.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11438

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Harriet Lubbock
Date:
[14 May 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.350-1 & 24.110-11
Summary:

John Lubbock shall have JH's vote. Comments on the duties of an M.P. Cannot promise to canvas but will speak to anyone with influence he meets.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11440

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Harriet Lubbock
Date:
[15 June 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.353 & 24.114
Summary:

Has been kept informed of the illness of Sir John William Lubbock by JH's daughter [Matilda] Rose. Hears things are now more serious and proposes to bring Rose home to Collingwood.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11442

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
John Lubbock
Date:
[26 May 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.355 & 24.112
Summary:

Cannot make up his mind to support either one or other of the two great political divisions at the moment.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11481

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
John William Lubbock
Date:
[15 August 1861]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.394, 23.338, & 25.15.18
Summary:

Has got his paper on shooting stars. Comments on JL's theories of meteors. Pleased to hear a favorable account of Montague Lubbock.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11486

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
John William Lubbock
Date:
[14 September 1861]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.399-400 & 23.339
Summary:

Does not possess the Transactions of the Astronomical Society, which contains JL's paper. Had to limit the scope of his article so could not deal with the point mentioned in JL's letter. Comments on P. S. Laplace's formula.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11487

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
John William Lubbock
Date:
[14 September 1861]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.400 (C: RS:HS 23.339)
Summary:

About the barometric formula for the measurement of heights.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11516

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Sir Charles Lyell
Date:
[1864-5]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.429
Summary:

Introducing his eldest son and his son's newly married wife.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11517

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Sir Charles Lyell
Date:
[29 January 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.430 & 24.83
Summary:

Sending a lump of a substance quarried near Edenderry; has found some very similar in a quarry of his own. Can send some more specimens. Congratulations on his Baronetcy. Has been prostrated with bronchitis.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1153

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Robert FitzRoy
Date:
1863 or later
Source of text:
RS:HS 25.14.10
Summary:

Remains unconvinced by RF's ideas on gravitating lunisolar action on the atmosphere.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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