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Herschel3522

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
James David Forbes
Date:
16?] May [1842
Source of text:
St. Andrews 49
Summary:

Sets up approximate meeting time, depending on his family's timely departure to Antwerp, with JF at the R.S.L. apartments.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3523

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
James David Forbes
Date:
[27 July 1850]
Source of text:
St. Andrews 56 & C: TxU:H/L-0146; Reel 1054 inc
Summary:

Calls JF's attention to an article in which an answer is attempted to JF's objection to 'the argument from probability of a physical connection between individuals of a double star.'

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3539

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
James David Forbes
Date:
1845-1[?]-22
Source of text:
St. Andrews 7
Summary:

Requests information about actinometers in JF's possession, and provides further information regarding their use.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3541

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
James David Forbes
Date:
[1 March 1847]
Source of text:
St. Andrews 10a (C: RS:HS 22.304)
Summary:

Believes all actinometric measurements made are useless because they did not take into account the rate of expansion of the liquid, which is not constant.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3545

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
James David Forbes
Date:
[23 May 1832]
Source of text:
St. Andrews 73 (C: RS:HS 21.110)
Summary:

Sends thanks and congratulations for paper verifying electric origins of all magnetism. Will give JF an actinometer with complete instructions. Includes some instructions for obtaining and using it. Sends regards to Mario Gemellaro, should JF go to Catania.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3560

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
James David Forbes
Date:
[6 June 1839]
Source of text:
St. Andrews 32 (C: RS:HS 22.15)
Summary:

Writes 'in haste' to thank JF for a pair of papers. Comments on Louis Daguerre's pictures in Paris.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3561

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
James David Forbes
Date:
[11 August 1845]
Source of text:
St. Andrews 111 (C: RS:HS 22.246)
Summary:

Thanks JF for second edition of work on the Alps. Praises first edition.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3570

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
James David Forbes
Date:
[22 March 1859]
Source of text:
St. Andrews 18 (C: RS:HS 23.258)
Summary:

Expresses appreciation for JF's publication on glaciers.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3591

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
James David Forbes
Date:
[5 August 1832]
Source of text:
St. Andrews 123 (C: RS:HS 25.3.8)
Summary:

Suggests that JF use his instruments to compare the force of solar radiation at high and low elevations. Delineates possible methods for this experimentation, and lists results of similar experiments. Includes further information on the actinometer.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3592

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
James David Forbes
Date:
[20 February 1833]
Source of text:
St. Andrews 17 (C: RS:HS 21.129)
Summary:

Congratulates JF on obtaining, after some difficulty, the Chair of Natural Philosophy at Edinburgh. Accepts offer to discuss meteorology with JF's relation Leslie Melville[?], and hopes to mention his actinometer.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3593

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
James David Forbes
Date:
[30 May 1835]
Source of text:
St. Andrews 16 (C: RS:HS 25.4.11)
Summary:

Discusses reduction of barometric observations. Praises the Cape's climate.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3594

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
James David Forbes
Date:
[16 October 1833]
Source of text:
St. Andrews 48 (C: RS:HS 21.151)
Summary:

Wishes JF well in [Edinburgh] and leaves addresses where JH may be reached [at the Cape].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3595

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
James David Forbes
Date:
[13 March 1840]
Source of text:
St. Andrews 13 (C: RS:HS 22.44)
Summary:

On the preparation of paper to exhibit a thermal spectrum.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3597

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
James David Forbes
Date:
[10 June 1845]
Source of text:
St. Andrews 73 (C: RS:HS 22.241)
Summary:

Hopes to add JF's name to B.A.A.S. Meteorological Committee, and to see JF at Cambridge meeting of the committee.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3636

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
James David Forbes
Date:
[25 September 1837]
Source of text:
St. Andrews 40 (C: RS:HS 21.229)
Summary:

Thanks JF for papers and requests copies of those JH has borrowed; comments on JH's observations on solar heat, light, and lines in spectra.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8594

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
James David Forbes
Date:
[27 November 1849]
Source of text:
Edinburgh Royal Society
Summary:

[Responding to JF's 1849-11-23], JH cautiously discusses various considerations bearing on the idea of sending an astronomer and a large reflecting telescope to the Cape.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel9567

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
James David Forbes
Date:
[19 January 1843]
Source of text:
RS:HS 7.304 & 22.146
Summary:

Protesting about the refusal of the Royal Society of Edinburgh to publish Thomas Brisbane's magnetic observations; hopes it will be reconsidered. Thinks JF's theory on glaciers has good points, but comments on some of its shortcomings.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel9569

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
James David Forbes
Date:
[22 June 1847]
Source of text:
RS:HS 22.320
Summary:

Asks for details of several actinometers.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel9572

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
James David Forbes
Date:
[26] November 1849
Source of text:
RS:HS 7.312 & 23.75
Summary:

Agrees that it would be desirable to make further observations at the Cape, but foresees difficulties, especially liaison with the Astronomer Royal at the Cape.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Tyndall0614

From:
John Tyndall
To:
James David Forbes
Date:
5th April 1852
Source of text:
Incoming letters 1852, no. 33, StA JDF
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
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