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Herschel5550

From:
Sir Isaac L. Bell
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[15 December 1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS 4.40
Summary:

Invitation to JH to visit him if he is attending the B.A.A.S. meeting.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel5551

From:
Sir Isaac L. Bell
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[20 December 1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS 4.41
Summary:

Thanks for the gift of volumes on meteorology and the telescope. Hopes that JH will be able to visit Newcastle with the B.A.A.S.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel5737

From:
Edward William Brayley
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[31 December 1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS 4.226
Summary:

Would like to pass on JH's views on ice to A. R. Abbott, who is giving a lecture on glaciers at the Friend's Institute. Remarks on storms. Confusion of Thomas Young's views with JH's. Regarding JH's paper on earthquakes and volcanoes.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6470

From:
James Challis
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[23 December 1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.238
Summary:

Has read JH's brochure with pleasure. Regarding the alleged obstruseness of some of his own mathematical theories.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7692

From:
John R. Hind
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[8 December 1862]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 12/1.6.7; Reel 10
Summary:

E. W. L. Tempel's 1860 discovery of nebula near Merope.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8756

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Parsons (Lord Rosse)
Date:
[25 December 1862]
Source of text:
Rosse Papers K2.9
Summary:

Discusses plans for a memorial for Thomas Maclear. Requests change in manner in which WP records positions of nebulae observed at WP's observatory.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel9216

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Whewell
Date:
[27 December 1862]
Source of text:
TC, Camb. Add. Ms.a.207107 (C: RS:HS 23.401)
Summary:

Sends translation of Book III of Homer's Iliad and a memorial for Thomas Maclear.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel9530

From:
Robert FitzRoy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[24 December 1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS 7.261
Summary:

Sending a gift of his Weather Book. Hopes JH will send his comments on chapter 18. Has scarcely seen M. F. Maury.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel9531

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Robert FitzRoy
Date:
[25 December 1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS 23.400
Summary:

Thanks for gift of a book [RF's Weather Book].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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