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Herschel2679

From:
Mary Somerville
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[25 August 1863]
Source of text:
RS:HS 16.371
Summary:

Thanks JH for criticism of manuscript. Sends revised introductory paragraph. Thanks him for kindness to Signore Capellini. Scientific interest in Italy grows as politics settle.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3090

From:
Adolphe Quetelet
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[23 February 1863]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.255 (ALS?: Académie belgique #28)
Summary:

Cruel illness has kept him from work for a while. Just finished Histoire des sciences mathématique et physique chez les belges. AQ's son works with proper motion, double and multiple stars, and absolute positions.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3091

From:
Adolphe Quetelet
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[6 April 1863]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.256
Summary:

Sent information on meteor spotted in Belgium and in Germany. Has heard differing opinions on heights of meteors. Talks about statistics of population.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3092

From:
Adolphe Quetelet
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[27 June 1863]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.257
Summary:

Thanks for article by JH's son Alexander Herschel on meteors. Has printed it in Bulletin of the academy.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3093

From:
Adolphe Quetelet
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[16 August 1863]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.258
Summary:

Has received letter on meteors of 1868-8-10. Map was very interesting. Is going to Berlin for congress on statistics. Discusses phenomena of 1854. Asks for JH's opinion on whether meteors are terrestrial in origin.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3094

From:
Adolphe Quetelet
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1 October 1863]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.259
Summary:

Received documents from JH just before leaving for Berlin. Discussed periodic stars in Berlin. Stayed in Berlin longer than expected, but was received well by old friends.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3252

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[4 January 1863]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.392a (C: RI 520)
Summary:

Asks permission to print extract of JH's letter on heat spots of spectrum of rock salt sample. Hopes JH's son [Alexander] will speak at Royal Institution; JT would help with illustration. Wonders how blue color of water relates to sky color and polarization.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3569

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
28 April [1863?]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.411 (C: RI 519)
Summary:

Thanks for a gift.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3639

From:
Count Paul Edmund de Strzelecki
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[9 May 1863]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.246
Summary:

Will help JH or JH's son [Alexander], whose mind PS admires, in any way possible.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel364

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[14 February 1863]
Source of text:
RGO 6.476.127
Summary:

Will take into account JH's suggestions [see JH's 1863-2-13] and see where this leads.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3644

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[16 March 1863]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.393a (C: RI 523)
Summary:

Remarks on upcoming lecture of JH's son [Alexander], and on glacial movement.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4074

From:
Longman and Co.
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[12 October 1863]
Source of text:
Harvard: Houghton AAH 67m-67 (107)
Summary:

Informs JH that his photographs of the moon's surface and diagrams of the sun's envelope were sent to the engraver.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4132

From:
William Trant, Jr.
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[13 November 1863]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.370
Summary:

Reports that 100 copies of the Leeds essay JH requested will be ready the next day. Thanks JH for his understanding concerning the error in The Leeds Mercury [see WT's 1863-10-29].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4133

From:
William Trant, Jr.
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[2 October 1863]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.363
Summary:

Thanks JH upon receiving the essay for the Leeds Astronomical Society lecture series ['The Yard, the Pendulum, and the Metre, Considered in Reference to the Choice of a Standard of Length'].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4134

From:
William Trant, Jr.
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[16 October 1863]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.367
Summary:

Announces JH's essay, 'The Yard, the Pendulum, and the Metre' will be read to the Leeds Astronomical Society on 10 Oct. 1863.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4135

From:
William Trant, Jr.
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[21 October 1863]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.368
Summary:

Informs JH that the Leeds Astronomical Society will print 'The Yard, the Pendulum, and the Metre' the day after its presentation.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4188

From:
William Trant, Jr.
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[13 October 1863]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.366
Summary:

Notes reception of corrections to JH's 'The Yard, the Pendulum, and the Metre.' Will send JH 100 copies of the essay.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4212

From:
Charles Pritchard
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[19 October 1863]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.83 Ada Pritchard, Charles Pritchard: Memoirs of His Life, 240-1
Summary:

Warren de La Rue observes 'willow leaves' [mottling on solar surface]. Diagonal solar eyepiece works with great success. Praises de La Rue's work as having astounding accuracy.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4232

From:
John Taylor
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[3 June 1863]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.328
Summary:

Asks whether JT can reprint JH's letters on the British modular standard of length, which letters were published in the Athenaeum.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4233

From:
John Taylor
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[19 June 1863]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.330
Summary:

Suggests JH send copies of JH's letters from the Athenaeum to members of Parliament because JH has more influence than JT.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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