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Herschel8322

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
[William Radcliffe Birt]
Date:
[20 June 1847]
Source of text:
RS:HS 19.125
Summary:

Encourages barometer observations in Mediterranean and Atlantic. Admiralty should support B.A.A.S. request for shipboard observations. Will probably not see WB in Oxford.

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Herschel8323

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Radcliffe Birt
Date:
[7 October 1847]
Source of text:
RS:HS 19.126 (C: RS:HS 22.328)
Summary:

JH avoids participating in meteorological enquiry. Suggests improvements on WB's plan to establish government office to collect and publish meteorological reports from worldwide network of military stations. Has read Francis Ronalds's papers.

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Herschel8324

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Radcliffe Birt
Date:
[23 December 1847]
Source of text:
RS:HS 19.127
Summary:

Lord Auckland [George Eden] asked JH to edit [Admiralty Manual] for officers on surveying and exploring expeditions. Charles Wheatstone will prepare instructions for meteorological observations. Asks WB to write instructions on detecting 'atmospheric waves and barometric fluctuations.'

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Herschel8325

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Eden
Date:
[28 December 1847]
Source of text:
RS:HS 19.128 (C: RS:HS 22.341)
Summary:

All scientists named by GE, except [Adam] Sedgwick, will contribute to Admiralty Manual, but only one has a paper already prepared.

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Herschel8334

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Eden
Date:
20 November [1847]
Source of text:
RS:HS 19.137 (RS:HS 23.51)
Summary:

Agrees to gather and edit contributions to Admiralty Manual and supervise its printing. Will correspond next month with all [scientists] chosen by GE.

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Herschel8546

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
[Robert Hunt]
Date:
[7 April 1847]
Source of text:
BostonPubLib Ms.Eng.406
Summary:

Attached letter from Edward Sabine [see Sabine's 1847-4-7] will allow RH to communicate directly with Sabine.

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Herschel8576

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
John Hartnup
Date:
1847-8
Source of text:
British Astronomical Association
Summary:

Sending a copy of JH's Cape Results to Hartnup for deposit in the Liverpool Observatory.

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Herschel86

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
1847-10-1 or earlier
Source of text:
RGO 6.368.682
Summary:

About observing stars with the transit circle, and timing the annulus [of an eclipse?].

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Herschel8600

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Johann Franz Encke
Date:
[17 February 1847]
Source of text:
AdWDDR Encke 49
Summary:

Informs JE what would be the cost for transcription of the G. W. Leibniz letter requested by JE [see JH's [1846]-11-5]. Mentions controversy over discovery of Neptune.

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Herschel87

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
1847-10-1 or later
Source of text:
RGO 6.368.686
Summary:

Was too cloudy to observe the eclipse; very worried about the health of Thomas Maclear.

Contributor:
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Herschel8783

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Sir William J. Hooker
Date:
[17 June 1847]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens
Summary:

[Responding to WH's 1847-6-16], JH doubts that JH's endorsement of [William H.] Harvey's candidacy for professorship of botany would have much credibility. Does hold Harvey in high esteem.

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Herschel8784

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Sir William J. Hooker
Date:
[23 December 1847]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens
Summary:

Lord Auckland [George Eden] has asked JH to edit Admiralty Manual and proposed that WH write section on botany. Would WH do this and when could WH complete it?

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Herschel88

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[14 November 1847]
Source of text:
RGO 6.368.688
Summary:

Asks GA for details about the scientific support provided by Hugh Percy; also asks about the availability of star charts on the Berlin Academy scheme.

Contributor:
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Herschel8800

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Baron [Karl Alexander von] Hügel
Date:
[30 September 1847]
Source of text:
Science Museum Archives 523.89 Q
Summary:

Presents a copy of JH's Cape Results for transmission to the observatory of the University of Tübingen.

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Herschel8840

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Henry Fox Talbot
Date:
23] October [1847
Source of text:
Science Museum Talbt 1/37
Summary:

Thanks for excellent Talbotypes. Notes how few photographs are 'perspective representations on a vertical plane' and suggests how to correct this.

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Herschel8906

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
the R.A.S.
Date:
[1847]
Source of text:
R.A.S.M.N., 8 (1847), 14-15 inc
Summary:

Accepts with thanks J. Henry Griesbach's drawings of solar spots. Encourages others to observe the sun. Suggests the use of photography in recording solar spots. Pledges to give the R.A.S. all JH's drawings of solar spots.

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Herschel9161

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Whewell
Date:
[1847]
Source of text:
TC, Camb. Add. Ms.a.5751
Summary:

Agrees to inclusion of his initials in WW's Verse Translations and to vote for Prince Albert in some Cambridge election. Comments on the 'mess' in the R.A.S. over awarding its medal for 1848.

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Herschel9162

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Whewell
Date:
[1847]
Source of text:
TC, Camb. O.15.481
Summary:

Thanks WW for the supplemental dedication to JH in the second edition of WW's Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences. Is making slow progress correcting JH's Cape Results.

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Herschel9165

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Whewell
Date:
[23 December 1847]
Source of text:
TC, Camb. Add. Ms.a.20771 (C: RS:HS 22.340)
Summary:

Is editing a manual for surveying and exploring expeditions. Asks WW to do section on tides.

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Herschel949

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Margaret Brodie Herschel
Date:
1847-7
Source of text:
JHS 6.41
Summary:

Met U. J. J. Leverrier, F. G. W. Struve, and George Peacock at the gate of Trinity College; has arranged for Leverrier and Struve to visit Collingwood.

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