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Herschel6648

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Elizabeth Colling
Date:
[28 February 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.299
Summary:

Much on poetry; for a sonnet on the sun by EC, JH sends some photographs of the sun.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6649

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Elizabeth Colling
Date:
[15 June 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.318
Summary:

Of toads in rocks and stones, and martins in blocks of ice under rivers.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6650

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Elizabeth Colling
Date:
[31 January 1871]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.350
Summary:

Comments on spelling reform being attempted in Germany and the United States, and being proposed in England.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6651

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Elizabeth Colling
Date:
[9 February 1871]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.353
Summary:

Comments on the attitude of the French towards the Germans in light of the war.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6652

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Elizabeth Colling
Date:
[22 March 1871]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.359
Summary:

More remarks relating to French/German relations [see JH's 1871-2-9]. Thanks EC for more poetry and an account of an earthquake she experienced. JH is in poor health.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6653

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Elizabeth Colling
Date:
[15 April 1871]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.363
Summary:

Comments on several aspects of poetry; further comments on French/German relations [see JH's 1871-2-9 & 1871-3-22].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6691

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
John Henry Dallmeyer
Date:
[25 December 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.340
Summary:

Thanks and a detailed description of the functioning of a pair of binoculars sent by JD to JH.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6862

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Warren de La Rue
Date:
[23 April 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.305
Summary:

Inquires about other sunspot observations made by JH.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6865

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Warren de La Rue
Date:
[5 May 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.311
Summary:

Thanks for the photographs WD sent for the dates requested in JH's 1870-4-23.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6867

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Warren de La Rue
Date:
[14 July 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.322
Summary:

Comments on sunspot activity; agrees to inclusion of some paragraphs in a paper WD is writing.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6868

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Warren de La Rue
Date:
[11 February 1871]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.354
Summary:

Comments on sunspot activity.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7231

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Augustus De Morgan
Date:
[2 April 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.302
Summary:

Asks AD's advice on an application JH received the previous day. Comments on JH's health.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7233

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Augustus De Morgan
Date:
[17 June 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.319
Summary:

Writes about JH's health; justifies writing by sending some curves prepared by JH's son Alexander.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7783

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
John Williams
Date:
[21 April 1871]
Source of text:
RAS: MSS Add.29 [suppl.]
Summary:

Encloses copy of JH's letter to R.A.S. [see JH's 1864-6-29] that accompanied JH's submission of W. L. Newman's tables for determining radii of aplanatic lenses. Suspects that there was more than one volume of tables.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8134

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
R. S. White
Date:
[13 March 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.401 (C: RS:HS 24.300)
Summary:

JH will not join subscribers for prizes. Objects to so much emphasis on exhibitions of competitive sports, to the detriment of serious education. Feels young people benefit more from spontaneous exercise.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8361

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Nature
Date:
[21 January 1871]
Source of text:
RS:HS 19.161b
Summary:

Requests publication of a notice of the recalculation by H. J. R. Petersen of the Gaussian constants of terrestrial magnetism.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8528

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Frederick Howlett
Date:
[29 August 1870]
Source of text:
Adler Ms. 13 (C: RS:HS 24.328)
Summary:

Comments on remarkable solar activity. JH admits he has no theory to explain sunspots.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8563

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
[W. K. von Haidinger]
Date:
[9 April 1870]
Source of text:
BostonPubLib Ms. Eng. 204 (C: RS:HS 24.303)
Summary:

Thanks WH for materials WH sent, including information about scientific activity in Vienna and papers on meteorites. Recounts some of the history of the Analytical Society. Discusses meteorites and also Homeric references to iron.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8593

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Julia Margaret Cameron
Date:
[30 October 1870]
Source of text:
Dunedin Public Lib.
Summary:

Sends a copy of JH's version of the German Rhine Song, which JC requested. Comments favorably on French losses in the Franco-Prussian War. Thanks her for visiting.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8618

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Benjamin Carpenter
Date:
[19 April 1871]
Source of text:
Royal Geographical Society
Summary:

Discusses WC's ideas on the causes of oceanic circulation. Notes that wind currents are easier to study than water currents. Glad WC got his specimens of Mediterranean water.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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