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Herschel2932

From:
C. A. von Steinheil
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[26 June 1847]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.7
Summary:

Tells JH that his invitation to visit came too late. Regrets deeply not having the opportunity to meet, but expects to do so next year. Hopes to present two works to JH at that time. Mentions working with the talented P. L. Seidel, his assistant.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel2933

From:
C. A. von Steinheil
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[26 June 1847]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.8
Summary:

Tells JH of [P. L. von] Seidel's success in comparing luminosity of stars by means of a photometer. The results match those of JH. Sends JH a copy requesting that the form be ignored and it be communicated to the R.A.S.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel2965

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Adolphe Quetelet
Date:
[15 October 1847]
Source of text:
Académie belgique: #25
Summary:

Thanks AQ for package No. 32. Asks AQ to acknowledge receipt of JH's Cape Results. Commends AQ for outstanding work on magnetic meteorological and periodic phenomena.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3027

From:
Wilhelm Struve
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1 August 1847]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.137
Summary:

Has arrived from Paris and will continue to Hamburg. Regrets not being able to revisit Collingwood. Requests JH's work concerning the southern skies.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3084

From:
Adolphe Quetelet
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[17 August 1847]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.249
Summary:

Thanks JH for introducing him to Robert Kane. Hears that JH will publish Cape results. Impatient to see them. Mentions JH's philosophical work.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3113

From:
Paul Partsch
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[10 September 1847]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.143
Summary:

Has received package in Turkey from JH. Sends thanks to JH through Sir Robert Brown. Values highly the gift of fragments from a meteor fallen near Cold-Bokkovold on 13 October 1838.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel312

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[23 December 1847]
Source of text:
RGO 6.2.135
Summary:

Has been requested to prepare a manual of scientific instructions for the use of ship's officers, and is asking GA to prepare a section on astronomy.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel313

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[26 December 1847]
Source of text:
RGO 6.2.136
Summary:

Is willing to assist JH, but feels that the Admiralty must instruct GA to do so [see JH's 1847-12-23].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3141

From:
Digby P. Starkey
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[4 November 1847]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.231
Summary:

In flowery prose thanks JH for 'feeling with me in what I have felt deeply myself,' perhaps referring to one of JH's poems. Is delighted to have learned through W. R. Hamilton that JH is a poet.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3145

From:
William Samuel Stratford
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[22 October 1847]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.102
Summary:

Communicates with others JH's choice of name for new planet [Iris]. Sends position of Hawkhurst Church tower obtained from map department. Describes rainy-day eclipse and reactions to it.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3197

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Henry Sykes
Date:
[11 March 1847]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.143 (C: RS:HS 22.308)
Summary:

Notes that actinometer observations prove faulty due to problem with instruments. Asks that WS notify Indian observatories to join others in terminating such observations until JH finds method of getting around problem.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3230

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Samuel Stratford
Date:
[4 May 1847]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.101 (C: RS:HS 22.316)
Summary:

Approves naming the new planet Neptune and continued designation of JH's father's planet as Uranus. Suggests reasons and alternatives.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel327

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1 February 1847]
Source of text:
RGO 6.203.347
Summary:

Concerned about W. S. Stratford, who has not responded to letters; GA has a problem with the German notation of star positions used by Thomas Henderson.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3273

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
James Clark Ross
Date:
[5 May 1847]
Source of text:
RS Sa.654
Summary:

Speculates on name for JR's 'hot and cold basins' and on causes of equatorial heat and polar cold.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel328

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[8 May 1847]
Source of text:
RGO 6.203.349
Summary:

Believes he has worked out the German notation of star positions [see GA's 1847-2-1].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3281

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Robert Grove
Date:
[22 April 1847]
Source of text:
RI (C: RS:HS 22.314)
Summary:

Asks to be allowed to join the new Philosophical Club on a trial basis [see letter of same date to John P. Gassiot].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel329

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[10 May 1847]
Source of text:
RGO 6.203.352
Summary:

Uses GA's comments [see GA's 1847-5-10] finally to achieve clarification of Thomas Henderson's calculations.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3293

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Rowan Hamilton
Date:
[6 October 1847]
Source of text:
TCD 1493:411
Summary:

Thanks WH for 'plan' of [asteroid] Iris. Family is happy to have WH's son (JH's son William's friend) with them for holidays. Recounts their playful and adventurous activities.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3294

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Rowan Hamilton
Date:
[20 April 1847]
Source of text:
TCD 1493:387
Summary:

On WH's 'Hodograph' and theorems of parabolic motion and the relation between velocities, initial velocities, and time. Praises WH's son. Cape Results nearly finished. Revising book on astronomy. Plans to 'attack' quaternions. Mentions parabolic functions and Benjamin Peirce's claim that the discovery of Neptune was accidental.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel330

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
1847-10-6 or later
Source of text:
RGO 6.203.383
Summary:

Has dealt with the problem of thanking H. C. Schumacher [see GA's 1847-10-6].

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John Herschel Project
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