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Herschel5202

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Charles Babbage
Date:
[19 December 1820]
Source of text:
RS:HS 2.150 (C: RS:HS 20.106)
Summary:

Remarks on the R.S.L. Has written to J. B. Biot. Regarding the annual report. Needs a new council for the Astronomical Society. Please send him some copies of the rules. Meeting of Society of Arts. His recent chemical experiments. James South was with him last week and carried out observations.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel5203

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Charles Babbage
Date:
[25 December 1820]
Source of text:
RS:HS 2.151 (C: RS:HS 20.107)
Summary:

Suggestions for the wording of the annual report of the Astronomical Society. Wishes to propose a medal to be awarded for the theory of Saturn's satellites. Regarding the Lucasian professorship at Cambridge.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel5597

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Jean Baptiste Biot
Date:
[25 April 1820]
Source of text:
RS:HS 4.87 (C: RS:HS 20.93)
Summary:

Fears that a letter written to him in November may not have reached him. Will send him a copy of his paper of colors. A Philosophical Society has been formed at Cambridge.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel5774

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
David Brewster
Date:
[30 January 1820]
Source of text:
RS:HS 20.82
Summary:

Arrangements for paying dues to the Royal Society of Edinburgh; some comments about light passing through crystals.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel5775

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
David Brewster
Date:
[3 February 1820]
Source of text:
RS:HS 20.84
Summary:

Clarifies areas of disagreement with DB in JH's explanation of the results of colored tints of light passing through polarizing crystals.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel5777

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
David Brewster
Date:
[19 April 1820]
Source of text:
RS:HS 4.252-4 (C: RS:HS 20.90)
Summary:

Sending all his papers on the deviations of tints, suitably amended to give DB due acknowledgement. Queries regarding some of DB's statements. Supports his theories in a new paper he has written for the Cambridge Philosophical Society.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7404

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Johann Wilhelm Pastorff
Date:
[1820 to 1824]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 6/2.10 verso; Reel 8
Summary:

JH presented JP's paper on photospheres to Society.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8182

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Johann Elert Bode
Date:
[9 May 1820]
Source of text:
RS:HS 19.1
Summary:

Rules of new Astronomical Society. Offers to propose JB as associate.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8183

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Alexis Bouvard
Date:
[9 May 1820]
Source of text:
RS:HS 19.3
Summary:

Announces newly formed Astronomical Society. Invites AB to join.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8199

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers
Date:
[1820-1]
Source of text:
RS:HS 19.9
Summary:

Announces new Astronomical Society. Invites WO to become associate.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8207

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Henrik Johan Walbeck
Date:
[6 May 1820]
Source of text:
RS:HS 19.13
Summary:

Announces new Astronomical Society. Invites HW to become associate. Mentions planned observatory at Cape of Good Hope.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8530

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel
Date:
[9 May 1820]
Source of text:
AdWDDR Bessel 225 (C: RS:HS 20.94)
Summary:

Asks if FB is willing to be proposed as an Associate member of the Astronomical Society.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8683

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Carl Friedrich Gauss
Date:
[9 May 1820]
Source of text:
NSUB Cod.Ms.Gauss 99 (C: RS:HS 20.95)
Summary:

Announces formation of the Astronomical Society. Will be pleased to propose [CG] as an associate.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8684

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Carl Friedrich Gauss
Date:
[12 July 1820]
Source of text:
NSUB Cod.Ms.Gauss 99 (C: RS:HS 20.98)
Summary:

Has received letter of 3 June 1820 reporting on the new circle at Göttingen Observatory. Will read it to the Astronomical Society and propose CG as associate. Sends some JH publications.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8708

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Francis Baily
Date:
[1820-6]
Source of text:
Bodleian Library, Oxford
Summary:

Requests FB's paper on the eclipse and the reports on observations of the eclipse that JH has received. Discusses criteria to be used in deciding what to print in the Astronomical Society's journal.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel9828

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
James A. Gordon
Date:
[12?] August 1820
Source of text:
RS:HS 8.162 & 20.100
Summary:

Intended to write earlier but has been delayed by various causes. Their old friend the Dean of Hereford has just died. Comments on political situation in Sicily. New philosophical society started in Cambridge. Plans also for an observatory there.

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John Herschel Project
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