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Herschel5036

From:
William H. Attree
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1 November 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.417
Summary:

Question regarding auroral streams. [Part of this letter is missing; digest was obtained by consulting JH's reply of 1870-11-3]

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel5037

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William H. Attree
Date:
[3 November 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.337
Summary:

Relationship of electricity to magnetism, and relevance to 'auroral streamers'.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel5038

From:
William H. Attree
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[8 November 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.418
Summary:

Thanking him for his reply to his query of 1870-11-1.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel5851

From:
Robert Brown
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[15 November 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 4.320
Summary:

Further comments on JH's paper on the musical scales.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6361

From:
Thomas G. Bunt
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[30 November 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.126
Summary:

Sending calculations on the relative proportions of land to sea on the surface of the globe. Would welcome any comments from JH.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6599

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Elizabeth Colling
Date:
[4 November 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.338
Summary:

Thanks for the clippings about an aurora; thoughts on the relationship of poetry to music.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7296

From:
William B. Davis
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[3 November 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.475
Summary:

Is looking for employment as a calculator and if JH has the superintendence of the reduction of C. F. Gauss's Constants he would like the position.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7924

From:
Andrew Scott Waugh
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
23 November [1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.127
Summary:

Acknowledges return of R.S.L. certificate signed by JH. Anticipating visit with JH's son John, whom AW appointed to Great Trigonometrical Survey of India.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8651

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Griffith
Date:
[3 November 1870]
Source of text:
Manchester Central Library (ACCS: TxU:H/M-0222.2; Reel 1087)
Summary:

Agrees with GG and G. G. Stokes that the 'Magnetic Reduction Grant' should be approved. G. A. Erman also agrees.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8796

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Stanley Jevons
Date:
[10 November 1870]
Source of text:
John Rylands University Library of Manchester
Summary:

[Responding to WJ's 1870-10-29], JH declines participating, suggesting that too many lobbying groups already exist and that such groups frequently end up agitating for ends others than those that led to their creation.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel919

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
John Herschel (son)
Date:
[17 November 1870]
Source of text:
JHS 5.41
Summary:

Asks son John whom he would like to have sign the certificate for fellowship in the R.S.L. [see JH's 1870-9-7]; JH talks about ways of dealing with local irregularities in geodetic surveying [see JH's 1869-11-25]; is wishing Amelia and family were out of China and into India.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel9758

From:
Katherine A. S. Gibson
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[25 November 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 8.105
Summary:

What are JH's views on a suitable person to write a memoir of William Whewell.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel9759

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Katherine A. S. Gibson
Date:
1870-11-[26 orlater]
Source of text:
RS:HS 8.106 (C: RS:HS 24.341)
Summary:

Outlines the difficulty of selecting a person to write a memoir of William Whewell.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

JHC1476

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Miles Joseph Berkeley
Date:
20 November 1870
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.279, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC354

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Sir William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
12 November 1870
Source of text:
JDH/2/16 f.2, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

JDH compliments Sir William Turner Thiselton-Dyer [WTTD] on his paper on 'Spontaneous Generation & Evolution' & hopes that it is a prelude to further research into the chemistry of vegetation as JDH believes there is no better man to do it. JDH is currently reading John Tyndall's paper 'On the Actions of Rays of High Refrangibility upon Gaseous Matter' in PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF LONDON & he is struck by Tyndall's remarks on the decomposition of carbonic acid, by solar rays, in the leaves of plants. JDH says that he had thought about this independently & believes it would make a good research subject. Has heard that Dr P[ercival] Wright it going to Algeria for the winter. JDH hopes that he has left the key to the [Trinity College] Herbarium for them.

Contributor:
Hooker Project
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FVM-70-11-02

From:
John Dallachy
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
2 November 1870
Source of text:
MEL 67540, National Herbarium of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
Text Online

FVM-70-11-06

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
August Petermann
Date:
6 November 1870
Source of text:
Briefsammlung, Archiv, Justus Perthes’ Verlag, Gotha.For a published version of this letter see Voigt (1996), pp. 97-9
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-70-11-06a

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Joseph Hooker
Date:
6 November 1870
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1858-70, f. 452
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
Text Online

FVM-70-11-13

From:
Joseph Hooker
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
13 November 1870
Source of text:
RB MSS M3, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
Text Online

FVM-70-11-19

From:
William Denison
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
19 November 1870
Source of text:
Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde, Stuttgart
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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