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Herschel2580

From:
William Selwyn
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[8 March 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.484
Summary:

William Whewell will be buried in Trinity College Chapel. The thought of speaking about Whewell depresses WS.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel2582

From:
William Selwyn
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[29 March 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.485
Summary:

Compiling three year series of helioautographs. Wants suggestions for noting the position of planets supposedly influencing sunspots. Discusses a passage from one of Galileo's letters concerning the influence of the planets on the sun's face.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4902

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1 March 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.290
Summary:

Has sent the 1854 Greenwich Magnetical and Meteorological Observations. Illness of the Master of Trinity College, Cambridge (William Whewell). Undulating theory of stars in motion.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel5747

From:
Edward William Brayley
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[8 March 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 4.234
Summary:

Has answered Smith's request by letter this evening. Thanks for the specimen of the meteorite.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7310

From:
Edmund B. Denison
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[23 March 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.489
Summary:

Sending a small book he has written on astronomy. Owes all his knowledge to JH's Outlines Astr. Comments on the changes that could be made should any new edition of the Outlines be contemplated.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7784

From:
Francis Diedrich Wackerbarth
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[6 March 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.1
Summary:

Bemoans lack of complete collection in English of William Herschel's works. Questions quality of J. W. A. Pfaff's 1826 German work on WH, whose English nomenclature for stellar astronomy is not yet adopted in other languages. Suggests English government or R.A.S. underwrite cost of publication.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8414

From:
Rudolf Wolf
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[25 March 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 19.299
Summary:

Is sending JH a copy of some of RW's writings on sun spots. RW has been considering writing about the work of William and Caroline Herschel before the discovery of Uranus.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel9631

From:
J. Fitzmaurice
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[3 March 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 7.370
Summary:

A relation of JF has a handsome portrait of a William Herschel dressed in Jewish costume, to dispose of and wonders if JH would be interested in it. [Note by Herschel that this is Rabbi Herschel and no relation to the family.]

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel9760

From:
Katherine A. S. Gibson
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
7 March [1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 8.107
Summary:

Announcing the death of William Whewell and plans for his funeral. Hopes JH will not come in his present state of health.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel9800

From:
James Glaisher
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[5 March 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 8.135
Summary:

Editor of the Leisure Hour would like an article on the Correlation of the Physical forces. Would JH be prepared to write such an article?

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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