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Herschel1186

From:
John Phillips
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[19 October 1840]
Source of text:
RS:HS B26.3
Summary:

Informs JH that the B.A.A.S. has placed him on a committee to provide two actinometers for observing high in the Alps.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1187

From:
John Phillips
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[19 October 1840]
Source of text:
RS:HS B26.4
Summary:

Informs JH that the B.A.A.S. has placed him on a committee to study the possibility of using balloon ascents to study the upper atmosphere.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1188

From:
John Phillips
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[19 October 1840]
Source of text:
RS:HS B26.5
Summary:

Informs JH that the B.A.A.S. has again placed him on the committee to supervise the translation and publication of foreign scientific memoirs.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel12078

From:
John Murray [Sr.?]
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[5 August 1840]
Source of text:
RS:HS 12.445
Summary:

Sending check and a note from the editor of the Quarterly Review.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel12084

From:
John Murray [Sr.?]
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1840]-9
Source of text:
RS:HS 12.451
Summary:

Has forwarded JH's note regarding a review of William Whewell's book to J. G. Lockhart, who will be very pleased to receive such an article.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel12175

From:
Philip Melvill
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[13 January 1840]
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.33
Summary:

Sending a list of the principal instruments possessed by Lt. Col. George Everest. Also the last report made by Everest of his observations.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel12176

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Philip Melvill
Date:
[22 January 1840]
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.34 & 22.38
Summary:

Returns, with many thanks, the report of George Everest. Gives adverse comment on the alterations that Everest has made to some of the instruments.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel12212

From:
George Thomas Napier
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[10 April 1840]
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.68
Summary:

Apologizes for his long silence. Outlines recent events at the Cape concerning Andries Stockenström, who has been replaced by J. Hare, and Major C. C. Michell, who has resigned. J. R. Innes has been all over the Colony and will shortly be coming to England. F. M. Eardley-Wilmot has dined with the Napiers.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel12213

From:
George Thomas Napier
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[31 May 1840]
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.69
Summary:

Thanks for his long letter regarding education at the Cape. The five teachers have now arrived at the Cape. Comments on education at the Cape. Further regarding the Andries Stockenström affair.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1235

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Robert Hunt
Date:
[17 August 1840]
Source of text:
RS:HS B26.68
Summary:

Thanks RH for a sample of Daguerreotype paper. Comments on some aspects of the action of 'thermic' rays and 'chemical' rays in photography.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel12356

From:
Robert Treat Paine
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1 August 1840]
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.213
Summary:

Magnetic observations have been made regularly for a year and a half at the college at Cambridge by W. C. Bond. After JH's letter another set of instruments has been obtained to make another series of observations. Money from Hugh Smithson has been loaned to Arkansas. Comments on red auroral light seen. With the more frequent steamship service now hopes for quicker communications from JH.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel12500

From:
Henry Perigal
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[28 January 1840]
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.366
Summary:

Invites JH to visit HP to see the machine drawings being made [see HP's 1839-8-17].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel12501

From:
Henry Perigal
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[29 February 1840]
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.367
Summary:

More on machine-made curves [see HP's 1840-1-28].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel12531

From:
Henry Piddington
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[15 April 1840]
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.401
Summary:

Sends JH a pamphlet about meteorological observations in India.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel12532

From:
Henry Piddington
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[16 November 1840]
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.402
Summary:

Writes about HP's observations relating to the 'Law of Storms.'

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel12566

From:
Giovanni Antonio Plana
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[25 January 1840]
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.436
Summary:

Very pleased to hear that GP received the gold medal of the R.A.S. Sends instructions for receiving. Packet from JH with a portrait of JH has not arrived; could JH send another?

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel12567

From:
Giovanni Antonio Plana
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[25 May 1840]
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.437
Summary:

Gives new instructions about receiving medal; asks about the timing of the award.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel12571

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Hans Christian Oersted
Date:
[28 January 1840]
Source of text:
RS:HS 22.57
Summary:

Offers HO a small requiem, which JH's family sung at the beginning of the astronomical year at the memorial of the 40-foot reflector.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel12572

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Thomas Napier
Date:
1840-[8-14 or earlie
Source of text:
RS:HS 22.75
Summary:

Is trying to reduce the ill feeling between GN and Andries Stockenström relating to the governing of the Cape colony; JH feels hampered by limited information.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel12594

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
S. I. Osborne
Date:
[1 December 1840]
Source of text:
RS:HS 25.6.7
Summary:

About the desirability of closing a restricted public footpath across JH's property at Slough.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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