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Herschel4335

From:
Richard Taylor
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[5 June 1843]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.342
Summary:

Decides not to print G. Reichenbach's papers on JH's advice. Will consider Reichenbach's papers in the future.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel68

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[5 June 1843]
Source of text:
RGO 6.368.663
Summary:

Asks GA on behalf of F. W. Bessel, for unreduced positions of a star that FB wishes to examine for annual parallax.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8541

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel
Date:
[5 June 1843]
Source of text:
AdWDDR Bessel 225 (C: RS:HS 22.155)
Summary:

Thanks FB for some papers; raises questions relating to remodelling the constellations of the southern sky.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel9592

From:
Thomas I. M. Forster
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[5 June 1843]
Source of text:
RS:HS 7.333
Summary:

The colored meteors were too low on the horizon for JH to see them. Comments on the number of falling stars when comets approach the earth. Sends copies of his essay on comets and a book for children. Is working on various papers including one on 'Deafness in Balloons.' Is co-operating with L. A. J. Quetelet in a Register of Periodical Phenomena.

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John Herschel Project
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