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Herschel2440

From:
Edward Sabine
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[29 September 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.294
Summary:

Sends notice from [C. P. B.] Walker regarding pendulum experiments in India. Would welcome suggestions for new experiments in India.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel2630

From:
William Selwyn
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[2 September 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.512
Summary:

Has been trying to make pendulum curves. Believes they may help explain the different sunspot forms. Thanks JH for the spectroscopic observation memoirs.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel2631

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Selwyn
Date:
[4 September 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.330
Summary:

Thanks WS for August 29 photographs. Is sending JH's son's [John's] certificate. Pities the 'fallen Emperor' [Napoleon III].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3474

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Edward Sabine
Date:
[14 September 1870]
Source of text:
RS Sa.678
Summary:

Approves of ES's actinometric methods, but wonders about absorbent power of alcoholic liquid. Laments 'sad conclusion' to career of 'Hansa,' and hopes her companion is more successful.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3657

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Edward Sabine
Date:
[20 September 1870]
Source of text:
RS Sa.679
Summary:

Thanks for telegram and has dispatched papers about absorption power of actinometer liquid. Hopes letter written in Lady Sabine's handwriting does not indicate serious illness of ES.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4526

From:
Archibald Campbell Tait
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
1870-9
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.424
Summary:

Expresses concern over Church of England schools. Suggests appeal to raise funds.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel5850

From:
Robert Brown
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[29 September 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 4.319
Summary:

Confined by accident but is grateful for his paper on musical scales and offers his comments on it.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel920

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
John Herschel (son)
Date:
[7 September 1870]
Source of text:
JHS 5.42
Summary:

Gives advice to son John about whom to ask for a signature for the certificate for fellowship in the R.S.L. [see JH's 1870-8-4]; talks about the war [Franco-Prussian ?], and announces the birth of a son to daughter Amelia and Thomas Wade in Peking.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

JHC1376

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
George Bentham
Date:
2 September 1870
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.170, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC1537

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Henry Bolus
Date:
6 September 1870
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/3 f.15, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC1611

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Robert Oliver Cunningham
Date:
30 September 1870
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/3 f.128-129, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project
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FVM-70-09-00

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
George Bentham
Date:
September 1870
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1858-70, f. 28
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-70-09-06

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
George Bentham
Date:
6 September 1870
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1858-70, f. 448
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-70-09-06a

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Joseph Hooker
Date:
6 September 1870
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1858-70, ff. 446-7
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-70-09-06b

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
David Boyle
Date:
6 September 1870
Source of text:
RB MSS M1, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne.Published in Pretlove (2012), p. 76
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-70-09-09

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Eduard Fenzl
Date:
9 September 1870
Source of text:
Eduard Fenzl Nachlass, Archiv der Universität Wien, Vienna
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-70-09-26

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
George Bentham
Date:
26 September 1870
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1858-70, f. 449
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-70-09-27

From:
J. Rothwell
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
27 September 1870
Source of text:
Unit 3, p. 145, VPRS 1092 Governor's letter books, VA 644 Governor, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-70-09-29a

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
William Henry Archer
Date:
29 September 1870
Source of text:
2/137/4, Archer papers, University of Melbourne Archives
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-70-09-29b

From:
William Odgers
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
29 September 1870
Source of text:
No. 2674, p. 554, unit 21, VPRS 1187/P, outward registered 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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