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Herschel3573

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
[1821 or later]
Source of text:
RI 499-500 F3B
Summary:

Discusses origin and reactions of enclosed borate of lead. Postscripts on parallel strata in glass.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel5205

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Charles Babbage
Date:
[22 January 1821]
Source of text:
RS:HS 2.153 & 20.110
Summary:

Hopes to call on Thursday to discuss queries. Regarding recent astronomical experiments. Alterations to his twenty-foot telescope.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel5208

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Charles Babbage
Date:
[26 February 1821]
Source of text:
RS:HS 2.156 & 20.112
Summary:

Regarding W. T. Brande's recent attack on the Astronomical Society. The Board of Longitude and its dealings with CB. Has met Henry Warburton recently.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel5209

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Charles Babbage
Date:
1821-4
Source of text:
RS:HS 2.157 & 20.115
Summary:

Would CB breakfast with JH in order to meet members of the Correction Committee.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel5210

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Charles Babbage
Date:
[4 May 1821]
Source of text:
RS:HS 2.158 & 20.116
Summary:

Please forward the address of H. Meikle, the computer.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel5214

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Charles Babbage
Date:
[20 June 1821]
Source of text:
RS:HS 2.162 & 20.119
Summary:

No need for meeting of Correction Committee. Will be in town on Friday and hopes to meet him.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel5218

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Charles Babbage
Date:
[29 October 1821]
Source of text:
RS:HS 2.165 & 20.125
Summary:

Is glad he is coming on Tuesday. Regarding the parcel of books from Vienna. Recent experiments with mercury.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel5219

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Charles Babbage
Date:
[5 November 1821]
Source of text:
RS:HS 2.166 & 20.127
Summary:

Would like to visit this week. Has had an attack of rheumatic fever. Gives tables of orbit of a comet.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel5220

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Charles Babbage
Date:
[25 November 1821]
Source of text:
RS:HS 2.167 & 20.129
Summary:

Regarding barometric observations.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel5221

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Charles Babbage
Date:
[2 December 1821]
Source of text:
RS:HS 2.168 & 20.130
Summary:

Regarding their chances of obtaining a professorship at Cambridge.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel5600

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Jean Baptiste Biot
Date:
[12 January 1821]
Source of text:
RS:HS 4.90 & 20.108
Summary:

Regarding refraction in crystals of apophyllite and quartz.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel5666

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Miles Bland
Date:
[10 March 1821]
Source of text:
RS:HS 4.154a
Summary:

Though he could qualify, he would rather not try for the fellowship as he does not require it so much as some other persons may.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel5919

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Francis Baily
Date:
[29 May 1821]
Source of text:
RS:HS 3.42 & 20.118
Summary:

If FB will send him his paper on the eclipse, he will write his report. Regarding the publication of information received from various members. Duties of the Foreign Secretary.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7794

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Henrik Johan Walbeck
Date:
[26 February 1821]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.10a (C: RS:HS 20.113)
Summary:

Reports to HW, director of the observatory at Åbo, on observations, made by a variety of British astronomers, of the solar eclipse of 7 September 1820.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7796

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Johann Elert Bode
Date:
[23 March 1821]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.10c & 19.2
Summary:

JB was elected associate of Astronomical Society. Asks that Society's annual prize be announced in Jahrbuch. Please insert 'Reclamation' of Francis Baily against Jabbo Oltmanns, relative to the eclipse of [Thales?], into next Ephemeris. Send copies of JB's Ephemeris for T. F. Colby and for Society.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7797

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Giuseppe Piazzi
Date:
[23 March 1821]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.10d
Summary:

Elected to membership in Astronomical Society. Subjects of annual prize. What is title of [C.] Brioschi's work?

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7798

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Gerard Moll
Date:
1821-4
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.10e
Summary:

Elected to membership in Astronomical Society. Thanks for GM's paper on eclipse.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7799

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Heinrich Christian Schumacher
Date:
1821-4
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.10f & 19.11
Summary:

HS was elected associate of Astronomical Society. This year's prize relates to theory of Saturn's satellites. Does HS plan to continue his table of apparent places of fixed stars?

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7800

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Joseph Nicolas Nicollet
Date:
[19] April 1821
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.10g
Summary:

Thanks for JN's 'Comets Elemts' and book on libration of moon. Please send JN's and J. L. Pons's first observations of comet. Invites JN to become associate of Astronomical Society.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7801

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Joseph Nicolas Nicollet
Date:
[17 May 1821]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.10h
Summary:

Sends packet by Mr. Sellique containing report of Astronomical Society council and James South's corrections for June to Dec. 1821.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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