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Herschel10614

From:
Leonard Horner
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[2 November 1846]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.493
Summary:

When on board the Excellent at Portsmouth he was deafened by the firing of a gun and has since suffered from 'singing' in his ear. Can JH recommend a relief? His daughter would like an engraving of JH.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11291

From:
Urbain J. J. Leverrier
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[22 November 1846]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.195
Summary:

François Arago has communicated JH's letter informing him that UL has been awarded the Copley Medal.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11292

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Urbain J. J. Leverrier
Date:
[25 November 1846]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.196 & 22.288
Summary:

Will put the matter of UL's medal into the hands of Edward Sabine, the Foreign Secretary, who will hand it to the Ambassador for delivery to France.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11293

From:
Urbain J. J. Leverrier
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[28 November 1846]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.197
Summary:

Is pleased with the arrangements for the forwarding of his medal. Is sending for the R.S.L. five examples of his researches.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel12051

From:
Roderick Impey Murchison
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[15 November 1846]
Source of text:
RS:HS 12.417
Summary:

Thanks for his letter and the enclosure of Dr. Andrew Smith. Will now write to C. R. Darwin. Can now wait on the Chancellor of the Exchequer.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel164

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[2 November 1846]
Source of text:
RGO 6.676.459
Summary:

A committee meeting is being called [see JH's 1846-10-22].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1775

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[19 November 1846]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0632.2 (C: RGO 6.203.345)
Summary:

Essentially agrees with JH's plan for distribution of the star catalogues [see JH's 1846-11-18].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel2328

From:
Edward Sabine
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[21 November 1846]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.199
Summary:

JH must inform Lt. Dayman of the actinometer observations to be done. Thanks JH for his actions regarding the Royal Medal. Wants to show Lord Angbury[?] a copy JH's letter.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel2329

From:
Edward Sabine
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[25 November 1846]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15:200
Summary:

U. J. J. Leverrier has written and asked that JH receive the [R.S.L.] medal for him.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3234

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Rowan Hamilton
Date:
19] November [1846?
Source of text:
TCD 1493:374
Summary:

WH's theorems on ellipsoids are new to JH, but JH is unfamiliar with the field, so they may not actually be new. Wishes to master mathematics. Still working on Cape observations. Believes Neptune was almost an English discovery, and would have been well-named Minerva.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel326

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[18 November 1846]
Source of text:
RGO 6.203.344
Summary:

Proposes a plan for the distribution of printed copies of the star catalogues [see GA's 1845-7-25].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3274

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Chairman of R.S.L. Committee of Physics
Date:
[11 November 1846]
Source of text:
RS Sa.651 (C: RS Sa.652, RS Sa.653; ACCS: RS:HS 25.7.3)
Summary:

Being unable to attend committee meeting to consider recommendations for Royal Medal, elaborates reasons for thinking Edward Sabine's memoirs on terrestrial magnetism worthy of award.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel359

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[2 November 1846]
Source of text:
RGO 6.79.336
Summary:

Has obtained puzzling results when reducing JH's observations of the sixth satellite of Saturn.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel360

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[18 November 1846]
Source of text:
RGO 6.79.338
Summary:

Has made some minor adjustments in JH's satellite of Saturn results [see JH's 1846-11-2], but the major discrepancy still exists.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel361

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[20 November 1846]
Source of text:
RGO 6.79.340
Summary:

GA's suggestions [see GA's 1846-11-19] have helped JH solve his problem; now JH has a problem with observations of the second satellite of Saturn.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3866

From:
William Rowan Hamilton
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[23 November 1846]
Source of text:
unknown
Summary:

Elated that WH's account of the generation of an ellipsoid is an original result.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4401

From:
William Henry Smyth
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[2 November 1846]
Source of text:
RS:HS 16.293
Summary:

Lunar model will be placed in Somerset House.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4446

From:
John Webb Woollgar
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[7 November 1846]
Source of text:
Harvard: Houghton AAH 67m-67 (62)
Summary:

Sends communication from R.A.S.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4782

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[19 November 1846]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.172 (C: RGO 6.79.339)
Summary:

Regarding F. W. Bessel's table for the Huygenian satellite. On early chronology.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4783

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[21 November 1846]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.173 (C: RGO 6.79.342)
Summary:

Regarding Johann Lamont's numbers.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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