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From:
John R. Hind
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[6 July 1855]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.365
Summary:

Has heard from W. H. Smyth that JH is suffering from serious and protracted indisposition. Hopes he will soon be restored to health as he himself has been.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Henry Holland
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
14 February [1850]
Source of text:
unknown
Summary:

Thanks for congratulations on marriage of HH's daughter. Notes HH's review of J. C. Prichard's Natural History of Man in December issue of Quarterly Review, written while on holiday in Armenia.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Henry Holland
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
9 February [1850]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.438
Summary:

Marriage of HH's eldest daughter. Thanks for JH's letter of introduction to George Bishop and J. R. Hind.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Henry Holland
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
7 January [1850]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.439
Summary:

Delayed answering JH's letter until HH could find details of works by 'Göttingen Professor,' but has had difficulty in locating them. Any treatise connecting epidemics with fungous origins would be of interest. Will bring distressing medical case to attention of one of HH's committees. HH's Medical Notes and Reflections, 3rd edition (1855).

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Henry Holland
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1858 or later]-4-23
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.440
Summary:

Comments on JH's paper on Sensorial Vision (1858). Covered some of this ground in HH's own book, Mental Physiology (1852).

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir William J. Hooker
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1 November 1858]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.462
Summary:

Regarding the reasons for the confusion in the nomenclature of the genus Wellingtonia and Sequoia. Comments on the aquatic Anacharis.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Alexander J. B. Hope
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[18 March 1859]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.464
Summary:

Intends to stand for the University of Cambridge and would be pleased to receive his vote and interest. [Note on JH's reply: Shall have his vote; in any case will not vote against him.]

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Alexander J. B. Hope
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1 April 1859]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.465
Summary:

Would be grateful if JH would allow his name to be added to AH's Committee.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
William Hopkins
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[7 February 1857]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.478
Summary:

Has been absent from home, which accounts for his belated reply. Comments on JH's difficulties in relation to W. H. Hopkins's memoir on the external temperature of the earth. JH's son is progressing well.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Joanna B. Horner
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[4 May 1852]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.489
Summary:

Has had a letter from Miss Mathilde Oersted, who was gratified by JH's speech regarding her father. Her father's sudden death has been a great blow to her. Does not know what will happen to H. C. Oersted's books.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Joanna B. Horner
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[7 December 1859]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.491
Summary:

Charles Lyell has given her JH's translation of J. W. Goethe's poem. Comments on it.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Leonard Horner
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[22 January 1858]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.495
Summary:

Has had a volume of essays of JH's and wonders if the first one [address to the subscribers of Windsor Public Library] has been published separately; if not, he would like to issue it in a cheap form.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Alexander von Humboldt
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[19 January 1850]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.69
Summary:

Queries regarding JH's star lists. Sending magnetic information from A. T. Kupffer. Regarding the distribution of nebulae.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Alexander von Humboldt
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[11 August 1850]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.71
Summary:

Is grateful for his constructive letter on the Coal Sack. Regarding the work of the Schlaginweit brothers.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Alexander von Humboldt
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[31 December 1850]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.72
Summary:

News of the astronomical activities of his colleagues. Astronomical queries.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Alexander von Humboldt
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[13 August 1851]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.73
Summary:

Introducing Adolphe Barth. Astronomical news and queries.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Alexander von Humboldt
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[6 May 1855]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.74
Summary:

Sends a letter of praise for the family Herschel, including especially JH and his father, William.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Robert Hunt
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[8 May 1852]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.132
Summary:

Regarding the absence of his own name from the candidates list for the R.S.L.; thinks there is a clique working against him.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Wilhelm Hansen
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[15 May 1854]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.153
Summary:

Has been commissioned by Guillaume Weber to present a paper about an instrument for measuring the earth's magnetism, to JH. Would like to present it personally; when can he call?

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
William Snow Harris
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[30 October 1851]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.163
Summary:

Sends a new edition of his own work on electricity. Has been studying the manuscripts of Henry Cavendish and thinks they should be published. JH in one of his articles attributes an invention to C. F. Gauss, whereas WH suggested the idea seven years before Gauss.

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John Herschel Project
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