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Herschel8152

From:
Mary Anne Wilson
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[5 November 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.420
Summary:

Recalls happy days JH spent with MW's relatives. MW is now 76 and in good health, but experiencing financial difficulties. Will JH help her? Reports news of her brothers, Alexander and Patrick.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8153

From:
Mary Anne Wilson
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[22 November 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.421
Summary:

Deep appreciation for JH's donation.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8391

From:
J. Park Harrison
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[27 November 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 19.276
Summary:

Notes regular maxima and minima in 50-year temperature curves. Offers theory relating these to phases of moon. Compares it to J. H. Mädler's theory.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8574

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
[India Office]
Date:
[16 November 1866]
Source of text:
BostonPubLib Ms.Eng.231(1)
Summary:

Corrects earlier statement that JH has not received vol. 4 of the study of India written by [Robert and Hermann] Schlagentweit

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel895

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
John Herschel (son)
Date:
5 November [1866]
Source of text:
JHS 5.15
Summary:

Worried by not having heard from son John, especially as there is cholera in India; JH sends news of the family, especially of how bright the younger girls are; also comments on world events and about books sent to John.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8956

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
the British Meteorological Society
Date:
[14 November 1866]
Source of text:
Proceedings of the British Meteorological Society, 3 (1867), 273-5
Summary:

Presents in some detail and with an illustration his observations of the meteor shower 13-14 Nov. 1866.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel9693

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Robert A. T. Gascoyne-Cecil
Date:
[26 November 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.177
Summary:

Comments on a multi-volume work on India by the Schlaginweits [Hermann and Robert], suggesting that the work contains much extraneous computation and detail and should be compressed. Questions whether further publication on the present scale is justified.

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John Herschel Project
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