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Herschel11034

From:
Richard Jones
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[26 March 1842]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.376
Summary:

Has just confirmed the Hawkhurst apportionment; comments on this. Encloses a copy of the notice.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11234

From:
William Lassell
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[10 March 1842]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.125
Summary:

Sending a description of the observatory he has erected, containing an equatorially mounted Newtonian reflector. Has high opinion of its efficiency. Has detected a sixth star near the trapezium of Orionis.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11596

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Lassell
Date:
[20 March 1842]
Source of text:
RS:HS 22.114
Summary:

Comments on WL's finding a sixth star in the trapezium of Orion [see WL's 1842-3-10]; lists other catalogues that identify that star.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11771

From:
Thomas Maclear
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[28 March 1842]
Source of text:
RS:HS 12.131
Summary:

Received JH's constellation reform paper. Reports on triangulation at Zwartland and observations of possible variable stars. Obelisk at Feldhausen erected; relates controversies over the site.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel12039

From:
Roderick Impey Murchison
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[5 March 1842]
Source of text:
RS:HS 12.402
Summary:

Sends a memoir he has scribbled off for next Wednesday's meeting. Would like JH's advice on several points.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel12040

From:
Roderick Impey Murchison
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[10 March 1842]
Source of text:
RS:HS 12.403
Summary:

Many thanks for JH's explanations, which gave satisfaction to the geologists. Gives two queries of his own for which he would like clarification. Can they print JH's Alpine phenomena memoir?

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel12157

From:
Minna Mädler
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
1842-3-28 to 1842-4-
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.15
Summary:

Has only just received JH's parcel dispatched some six months ago, due to lack of transport during the winter months. JH's poem on the Old Telescope has been in great demand. Pass the enclosed to Miss Hamilton. Would like an autograph of JH for her album.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel12437

From:
George Peacock
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[25 March 1842]
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.294
Summary:

About arrangements to visit JH at Collingwood.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel14710

From:
'Q in a Corner'
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[16 March 1842]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0908; Reel 1083
Summary:

Encloses newspaper clipping that reports JH is member of commission of inquiry on weights and measures. Protests that the poor are defrauded more by false scales than by nonstandard weights. Proposes remedy.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3077

From:
Adolphe Quetelet
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[14 March 1842]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.242
Summary:

Sends works on meteorology and instructions for natural periodic phenomena. More proselytes in horary observations. Asks for JH's recommendations for those observing meteors in the other hemisphere.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3809

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Robert Hunt
Date:
[15 March 1842]
Source of text:
George Eastman House, 12.17
Summary:

Believes that the operative rays in JH's thermographic process are neither 'calorific' nor 'thermal'.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3994

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Caroline Lucretia Herschel
Date:
9] March [1842
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0587.4; Reel 1058
Summary:

Remarks that he is 50 years old, and that he and CH have 'seen something of that odd and most changeable compound called Human Nature.'

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4712

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[10 March 1842]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.101 (C: RGO 6.340.341)
Summary:

Regarding JH's receipt of the 'Standard' reports. Remarks on the electrometer and barometer in the recent storm.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4713

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[15 March 1842]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.102 (C: RGO 6.368.648)
Summary:

Regarding his letter writing. Has a promise of a trip on the Dover Railway.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4714

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[21 March 1842]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.103 (C: RGO 6.368.651)
Summary:

Hopes to meet JH on 29 March.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6159

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Francis Baily
Date:
[1842-3?]
Source of text:
RS:HS 3.285
Summary:

Proposes to come to London to visit him. Has just received the proofs of Robert Maine's paper on parallax.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel65

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[11 March 1842]
Source of text:
RGO 6.368.646
Summary:

Arranging a visit for GA to Collingwood.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel66

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[18 March 1842]
Source of text:
RGO 6.368.649
Summary:

Final arrangements for GA's visit to JH [see GA's 1842-3-15].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6742

From:
William Rutter Dawes
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[2 March 1842]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.60
Summary:

Has received from William Lassell some of the new observations he carried out with his new 9" speculum. Comments on these and various clusters of stars changing their position.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8561

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Unidentified
Date:
[25 March 1842]
Source of text:
BostonPubLib Ms. Eng. 204
Summary:

Appreciates receiving the curious fossil, even though JH knows little of such matters.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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