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Herschel4731

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[22 April 1843]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.121 (ACCS: RGO 6.368.662)
Summary:

Offers JH information about, and maps of, Switzerland, as GA understands JH is going there.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4732

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[10 May 1843]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.122 (C: RGO 6.340.347)
Summary:

Regarding Captain [Charles ?] Gray's letter. Robert Peel has written asking Francis Baily and W. H. Miller to do the 'Standards.'

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4733

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[6 June 1843]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.123 (C: RGO 6.368.664)
Summary:

Regarding H. C. Schumacher and the Stephen Groombridge observations.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4734

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[12 June 1843]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.124 (C: RGO 6.368.666)
Summary:

Regarding a letter from F. W. Bessel. On holiday on the Isle of Wight.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4735

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[24 June 1843]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.125 (C: RGO 6.340.350)
Summary:

Regarding a meeting of the new 'Standard' committee.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4736

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[20 July 1843]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.126 (C: RGO 6.193.205)
Summary:

Regarding the measurement of angles. Observations on a problem set by JH.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4737

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[13 August 1843]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.127
Summary:

Regarding a telescope for Thomas Maclear.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4738

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[9 September 1843]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.128 (C: RGO 6.340.353)
Summary:

Regarding the storage of the Standard weights and measures.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4739

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[16 September 1843]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.129
Summary:

Requires information on an actinometer.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4740

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[4 October 1843]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.130 (C: RGO 6.401.91)
Summary:

Encloses copy of a paper for JH's comments. Regarding reviews of GA's paper on 'Tides.'

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4741

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[9 December 1843]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.131
Summary:

Regarding glass for the telescope for the Cape Town Observatory?

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4742

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[26 January 1844]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.132
Summary:

Regarding electrometers and their efficiency.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4743

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[31 January 1844]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.133
Summary:

Further regarding glass for telescope. Postscript relating experiments with electricity.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4744

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[12 March 1844]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.134 (C: RGO 6.92.120)
Summary:

Has JH received Thomas Maclear's observations on Encke's comet?

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4745

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[21 March 1844]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.135
Summary:

Regarding Cape Town telescopes. Has written to Thomas Maclear for observations on Encke's comet.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4746

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[27 May 1844]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.136 (C: RGO 6.8.621)
Summary:

Regarding JH's forthcoming visit to the Greenwich Observatory.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4749

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[29 June 1844]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.138
Summary:

Further observations on object glasses.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4750

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[26 August 1844]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.140 (C: RGO 6.675.360)
Summary:

Informing JH that he certainly wrote to him from Limerick.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4751

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[28 August 1844]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.141 (C: RGO 6.193.118)
Summary:

Regarding F. W. Bessel's letter on the irregularity of proper motion in stars. Is it worth printing Nevil Maskelyne's observations on star places?

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4752

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[23 September 1844]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.142 (C: RGO 6.229.192)
Summary:

Hopes JH will write a memoir of Francis Baily.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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