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Herschel14225

From:
John Phillips
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[4 February] 1858
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0428.23; Reel 1093
Summary:

Humphrey Lloyd, Thomas Robinson, and Edward Sabine will form a committee to continue studying magnetic observations.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel14226

From:
John Phillips
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[22 October 1859]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0428.24; Reel 1093
Summary:

JH appointed to a committee including George Wilson, David Brewster, Clerk Maxwell, William Thomson, and William Pole to study color blindness. They will be granted £10.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel14227

From:
John Phillips
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[7 December 1866]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0428.25; Reel 1093
Summary:

Requests JH's views on inductive logic for a publication by Cambridge.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3202

From:
John Phillips
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[26 July 1850]
Source of text:
RS MM.16.132
Summary:

Asks JH to send copy of [T. R.] Robinson's memorial to John Russell on the southern telescope. Robinson's statement 'is wanted' for upcoming council meeting and has not yet arrived.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4309

From:
John Phillips
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[26 March 1839]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.158
Summary:

Discusses need for barometric observations; asks if JH has plans to build a barometer.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7375

From:
John Phillips
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[10 May 1842]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 4/9.9 verso; Reel 7
Summary:

Will JH be prepared to present report on 'Nomenclature of Stars' at Manchester meeting in June?

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7376

From:
John Phillips
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[10 October 1843]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 4/9.10 verso; Reel 7
Summary:

Names committee, including JH, to superintend 'translation & publication of scientific memoirs.' [Printed note regarding] grants of money.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7377

From:
John Phillips
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[26 July 1839]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 4/9.15 verso; Reel 7
Summary:

Reminder that JH must report on 'Reduction of Meteorological Observations' at next meeting.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7385

From:
John Phillips
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[7 November 1845]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 4/9.39 verso; Reel 7
Summary:

Sends copy of JH's Cambridge B.A.A.S. address. Printer will send proofs for JH's inspection.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-421F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin; William Buckland; Adam Sedgwick; John Phillips; William Whewell; Roderick Impey Murchison, 1st baronet; Charles Lyell, 1st baronet; Charles Stokes; William John Hamilton; Edward Stanley; Richard Owen; William Clift; Charles Babbage; John Bostock; Peter Mark Roget; John Taylor; Spencer Joshua Alwyne Compton, 2d Marquess of Northampton; William John Broderip
To:
Thomas Spring Rice
Date:
[before 7 July 1838]
Source of text:
House of Commons papers; accounts and papers, 1837/38, XXXVI, 307
Summary:

Express their concern that the offer for sale to the British Museum, by G. A. Mantell and Thomas Hawkins, of two valuable collections, has been declined.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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