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RS-MM-001117

From:
John Frederick William Herschel
To:
George Gabriel Stokes
Date:
10 October 1856
Source of text:
MM/16/157, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

Herschel1105

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Gabriel Stokes
Date:
[13 November 1849]
Source of text:
RS:HS 25.10.1
Summary:

Thanks GS for a number of his papers on railway bridge fractures, gravitation, and the spectrum.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1106

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Gabriel Stokes
Date:
[17 April 1852]
Source of text:
RS:HS 25.10.2
Summary:

Replies to several queries about papers of JH. JH describes the accidental production of some interesting copper salt crystals.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1107

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Gabriel Stokes
Date:
[4 January 1853]
Source of text:
RS:HS 25.10.3
Summary:

Thanks GS for his paper on fluorescent spectra; JH is interested in having these rays used on quartz, hoping to find his 'thermic' rays acting.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1108

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Gabriel Stokes
Date:
[10 June 1854]
Source of text:
RS:HS 25.10.4
Summary:

Writes to acknowledge receipt of a testimonial on behalf of [George] Wilson.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1109

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Gabriel Stokes
Date:
[27 August 1854]
Source of text:
RS:HS 25.10.5
Summary:

Comments on color as a sensation, and on GS's thoughts on 'lavender rays.'

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1110

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Gabriel Stokes
Date:
[30 January 1855]
Source of text:
RS:HS 25.10.6
Summary:

Advises GS against spending £800 to verify the available drawings of Saturn; instead JH suggests alternative methods.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1111

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Gabriel Stokes
Date:
[7 March 1855]
Source of text:
RS:HS 25.10.7
Summary:

Asks GS about ordering instruments from [George] Wilson.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1112

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Gabriel Stokes
Date:
[10 March 1855]
Source of text:
RS:HS 25.10.8
Summary:

Inquiring about the cost of instruments being shipped.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1113

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Gabriel Stokes
Date:
[12 October 1856]
Source of text:
RS:HS 25.10.11
Summary:

Acknowledges receipt of a paper by [William] Pole, which JH will review.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1114

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Gabriel Stokes
Date:
[9 November 1856]
Source of text:
RS:HS 25.10.12
Summary:

Needs more time for reviewing Pole's paper [see JH's 1856-10-12].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1115

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Gabriel Stokes
Date:
[14 November 1856]
Source of text:
RS:HS 25.10.13a
Summary:

Is sending in JH's report on Pole's paper [see JH's 1856-11-9].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1116

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Gabriel Stokes
Date:
[14 November 1856]
Source of text:
RS:HS 25.10.13b
Summary:

Thanks the council of the R.S.L. through GS for the gift of a portrait of Nicholas Copernicus.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1117

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Gabriel Stokes
Date:
[1 November 1857]
Source of text:
RS:HS 25.10.14
Summary:

Is willing to have his review sent on to the author, [C. P.] Smyth; asks GS to send the R.S.L.'s copy of Keith Johnson's Physical Atlas to JH.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1118

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Gabriel Stokes
Date:
[19 November 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 25.10.15
Summary:

Carefully describes how to pack actinometers being shipped to India.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1119

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Gabriel Stokes
Date:
[19 July 1867]
Source of text:
RS:HS 25.10.16
Summary:

Agrees to allow Lord Oxmantown [Laurence Parsons] to add JH's remarks to Lord Oxmantown's paper.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel13051

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Gabriel Stokes
Date:
[5 May 1867]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0463 verso; Reel 1055
Summary:

Describes problem with spectral lines in telescope while trying to understand William Huggins's results.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel13052

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Gabriel Stokes
Date:
6 [June] 1869
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0464; Reel 1055
Summary:

Correction to be made in JH's biographical sketch of William Whewell.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel13053

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Gabriel Stokes
Date:
6 May [1870]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0465; Reel 1055
Summary:

Forwards letter from G. A. Erman of Berlin requesting that B.A.A.S. fund [H. J. R.] Petersen's study of terrestrial magnetism.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel13054

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Gabriel Stokes
Date:
[7 October 1870]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0466; Reel 1055
Summary:

Corrects date on publication by G. A. Erman.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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