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Herschel4704

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[20 March 1841]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.93 (C: RGO 6.340.313)
Summary:

Sending draft of report and appendix. Specimen of a gauging scale.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel530

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
1841-3-20 or later
Source of text:
RGO 6.340.314
Summary:

Has received material sent by GA [see GA's 1841-3-20]; comments on the report and JH's unavailability for meetings of the Standards Commission in the near future.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8110

From:
Robert Warington
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[13 March 1841]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.376
Summary:

Invites JH to join new Chemical Society. Committee proposed JH as first president.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8281

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Radcliffe Birt
Date:
[16 March 1841]
Source of text:
RS:HS 19.88
Summary:

Progress on barometer curves. Invites WB to send report, to be read at B.A.A.S. meeting in July.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8368

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
[William Radcliffe Birt]
Date:
[1841-3?]
Source of text:
RS:HS 19.167
Summary:

Received WB's packet. Will send sheets tomorrow. Needs all 'Curves and data' before end of March for final report to B.A.A.S. JH's nerves 'shattered with night work.'

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8831

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Henry Fox Talbot
Date:
[16 March 1841]
Source of text:
Science Museum Talbt 1/28
Summary:

Praises WT for invention of 'Kalotype' process; predicts it will be called 'Talbotype.' Notes excellence for photography of the weather during past year. Mentions possibility of cases of excessively rapid photographic change.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8832

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Henry Fox Talbot
Date:
[22 March 1841]
Source of text:
Science Museum Talbt 1/29 (C: RS:HS 17.304b & 22.81) Buckland, Talbot, 66 inc
Summary:

Congratulates WT on the calotype invention and the patent. Responds at some length to WT's concerns about the infinity of the universe. In postscript, provides a 4-page dialogue on the subject.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8833

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Henry Fox Talbot
Date:
[25 March 1841]
Source of text:
Science Museum Talbt 1/30 (C: RS:HS 17.305b & RS:HS 22.82)
Summary:

A further two dialogues elaborating on JH's earlier arguments [see JH's 1841-3-18] on the infinity/finitude of the universe.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel9563

From:
James David Forbes
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[26 March 1841]
Source of text:
RS:HS 7.297
Summary:

Sending a notice about the polarization of the sky. Also some practical papers he set at Durham. Has the obelisk ready for shipment to the Cape. Has asked Richard Taylor to send him a copy of his report on Meteorology.

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John Herschel Project
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