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RS-MM-001097

From:
John Frederick William Herschel
To:
John Herschel
Date:
3 March 1848
Source of text:
MM/16/134, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

RS-MM-001098

From:
John Frederick William Herschel
To:
Charles Lyell
Date:
9 March 1848
Source of text:
MM/16/135, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

RS-MM-001099

From:
John Frederick William Herschel
To:
Edward Sabine
Date:
10 March 1848
Source of text:
MM/16/136, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

SOMERVILLE292

From:
John Herschel
To:
Mary Somerville
Date:
1848?
Source of text:
MSH 3 / 312, Dep. c. 370, Bod, MS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse

SOMERVILLE294

From:
John Herschel
To:
William Somerville
Date:
6 Mar 1848
Source of text:
HS 16.406, RS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse

SOMERVILLE296

From:
John Herschel
To:
William Somerville
Date:
26 Mar 1848
Source of text:
HS 16.408, RS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse

Herschel10

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[6 May 1848]
Source of text:
RGO 6.160.32
Summary:

Does not believe that GA's proposal [see GA's 1848-5-4] will work.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10327

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William A. Baillie- Hamilton
Date:
1848-[6]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.209 & 23.29
Summary:

Thanks for the offer of 25 copies of the Admiralty Manual. Thinks contributors should receive 6 copies instead of the 2 copies originally intended. Some misunderstanding of his proposals regarding returns of information. Printer has made a blunder in the Manual and JH has given orders for new pages to be substituted.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[8 May 1848]
Source of text:
RGO 6.160.34
Summary:

Apologizes for having questioned GA's proposal [see GA's 1848-5-6], which is very good and should work well.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11248

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Lassell
Date:
[15 October 1848]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.139 & 23.40 & 23.41
Summary:

Criteria for deciding who can claim to be the discoverer of the satellite. [This letter marked 'not sent on second thoughts; see RS:HS 23.41 for letter sent.]

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1126

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Charles Wheatstone
Date:
[9 April 1848]
Source of text:
RS:HS 25.11.8
Summary:

Asks for CW's contribution to the Admiralty's scientific manual.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1127

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Charles Wheatstone
Date:
[12 November 1848]
Source of text:
RS:HS 25.11.9
Summary:

Strongly supports W. E. Weber as the best candidate for the receipt of the Rumford Medal [see CW's 1849-11-10].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11310

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Henry Liddell
Date:
[21 April 1848]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.215 & 23.21
Summary:

Regrets he cannot attend the meeting to lay the stone of the new lecture room, nor can he take an active part in the lectures due to an attack of influenza. Would like his name added to the ordinary members [of the Slough Mechanics Institute].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11608

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Lassell
Date:
[19 January 1848]
Source of text:
RS:HS 23.4
Summary:

Urges WL to make public his observations of the seventh satellite of Saturn as Otto Struve is about to announce his observation of the same body.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11609

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Humphrey Lloyd
Date:
[7 June 1848]
Source of text:
RS:HS 23.30
Summary:

Asks questions about how to proceed for the continuance of magnetic observations.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11610

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Lassell
Date:
[22 September 1848]
Source of text:
RS:HS 23.37
Summary:

Is pleased to hear of the discovery of further satellites of Neptune.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11611

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Lassell
Date:
[11 October 1848]
Source of text:
RS:HS 23.39
Summary:

Some question of Harvard University observer having observed the satellite [see JH's 1848-9-22] one day before WL.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel125

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[26 October 1848]
Source of text:
RGO 6.675.581
Summary:

Will now work with S. J. A. Compton, the President of the R.S.L., to try to get fair treatment for another applicant for the Admiralty money [see GA's 1848-9-25].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel126

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[28 October 1848]
Source of text:
RGO 6.675.582
Summary:

Further clarification to JH's 1848-10-26.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel12667

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Sophie Beckedorff
Date:
[12 January 1848]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0088; Reel 1054
Summary:

Gratitude for news [of Caroline Herschel], whose death seems imminent. Notes on burial, disposition of property, and transfer of papers to JH. Sends obituary written by JH for use at appropriate time. Will send inscription for headstone later.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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