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Herschel3092

From:
Adolphe Quetelet
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[27 June 1863]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.257
Summary:

Thanks for article by JH's son Alexander Herschel on meteors. Has printed it in Bulletin of the academy.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3093

From:
Adolphe Quetelet
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[16 August 1863]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.258
Summary:

Has received letter on meteors of 1868-8-10. Map was very interesting. Is going to Berlin for congress on statistics. Discusses phenomena of 1854. Asks for JH's opinion on whether meteors are terrestrial in origin.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3094

From:
Adolphe Quetelet
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1 October 1863]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.259
Summary:

Received documents from JH just before leaving for Berlin. Discussed periodic stars in Berlin. Stayed in Berlin longer than expected, but was received well by old friends.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3252

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[4 January 1863]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.392a (C: RI 520)
Summary:

Asks permission to print extract of JH's letter on heat spots of spectrum of rock salt sample. Hopes JH's son [Alexander] will speak at Royal Institution; JT would help with illustration. Wonders how blue color of water relates to sky color and polarization.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3359

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
[5 January 1863]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.392b (C: 24.4; C: RI 521)
Summary:

Likes JT's explanation of sky's blue color. Has difficulty with JT's explanation of polarization of skylight. Comments on absorptive powers of vapor and liquid.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3369

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
[John Taylor]
Date:
[4 June 1863]
Source of text:
St. John's College, Cambridge
Summary:

Gives permission to reprint letters to Athenaeum on standard of length, in light of recent bill to metricize. Requests as many copies as possible.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3397

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
[John Taylor]
Date:
[17 December 1863]
Source of text:
St. John's College, Cambridge
Summary:

Discusses JT's 'Battle of the Standards,' especially JH's letters against adoption of metric system and another lecture JH encloses. Comments on error in JT's frontispiece on the great pyramid.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3411

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
[John Taylor]
Date:
[11 June 1863]
Source of text:
St. John's College, Cambridge
Summary:

Discusses dispersal of copies of letter against adoption of 'French metre' [see JH's 1863-6-4].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3562

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
[15 March 1863]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.14 (C: RI 522)
Summary:

Thanks for lectures on heat motion theory and radiation through earth's atmosphere, and for brochure on 'conformation' of the Alps. Asks about upcoming lecture of JH's son [Alexander].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3569

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
28 April [1863?]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.411 (C: RI 519)
Summary:

Thanks for a gift.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3620

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
[R.S.L. Council]
Date:
[1863?]
Source of text:
RS RR.5.7
Summary:

Reports on and believes fit for publication paper [R.S.P.T., 153, 309-] by G. B. Airy on diurnal irregularities of terrestrial magnetism.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel363

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[13 February 1863]
Source of text:
RGO 6.476.126
Summary:

Offers a few ideas to GA [see GA's 1863-2-9], but does not have a coherent explanation.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3639

From:
Count Paul Edmund de Strzelecki
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[9 May 1863]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.246
Summary:

Will help JH or JH's son [Alexander], whose mind PS admires, in any way possible.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel364

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[14 February 1863]
Source of text:
RGO 6.476.127
Summary:

Will take into account JH's suggestions [see JH's 1863-2-13] and see where this leads.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3644

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[16 March 1863]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.393a (C: RI 523)
Summary:

Remarks on upcoming lecture of JH's son [Alexander], and on glacial movement.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4074

From:
Longman and Co.
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[12 October 1863]
Source of text:
Harvard: Houghton AAH 67m-67 (107)
Summary:

Informs JH that his photographs of the moon's surface and diagrams of the sun's envelope were sent to the engraver.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4132

From:
William Trant, Jr.
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[13 November 1863]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.370
Summary:

Reports that 100 copies of the Leeds essay JH requested will be ready the next day. Thanks JH for his understanding concerning the error in The Leeds Mercury [see WT's 1863-10-29].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4133

From:
William Trant, Jr.
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[2 October 1863]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.363
Summary:

Thanks JH upon receiving the essay for the Leeds Astronomical Society lecture series ['The Yard, the Pendulum, and the Metre, Considered in Reference to the Choice of a Standard of Length'].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4134

From:
William Trant, Jr.
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[16 October 1863]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.367
Summary:

Announces JH's essay, 'The Yard, the Pendulum, and the Metre' will be read to the Leeds Astronomical Society on 10 Oct. 1863.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4135

From:
William Trant, Jr.
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[21 October 1863]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.368
Summary:

Informs JH that the Leeds Astronomical Society will print 'The Yard, the Pendulum, and the Metre' the day after its presentation.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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