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Herschel14184

From:
Bartholomew Price
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[4 December 1866]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0410; Reel 1087
Summary:

Supports G. W. Kitchin's request that JH write treatise on inductive logic for benefit of Oxford students.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel14227

From:
John Phillips
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[7 December 1866]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0428.25; Reel 1093
Summary:

Requests JH's views on inductive logic for a publication by Cambridge.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1433

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Gabriel Stokes
Date:
[24 February 1866]
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library 7656/H709 (ACCS: RS:HS 19.157b)
Summary:

Forwarding copy of paper by Ernst F. W. Klinkerfues; EK purports to show that movement of a star toward or away from an observer will affect its refraction in an achromatic prism.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1434

From:
George Gabriel Stokes
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[27 February 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.62
Summary:

Comments against the paper of Ernst Klinkerfüss about observations of dispersed star light [see JH's 1866-2-24].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1435

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Gabriel Stokes
Date:
[28 February 1866]
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library 7656/H710
Summary:

Agrees with GS's assessment of Ernst Klinkerfüss's paper [see GS's 1866-2-27].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1436

From:
George Gabriel Stokes
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[2 March 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.63
Summary:

Further comments on Ernst Klinkerfüss's paper, in response to JH's 1866-2-28.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1437

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Gabriel Stokes
Date:
[4 March 1866]
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library 7656/H711 (draft RS:HS 17.64 & C: RS:HS 24.145)
Summary:

Comments further on Ernst Klinkerfüss's work [see JH's 1866-2-28]; on the behavior of light emitted by an electric spark.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1438

From:
George Gabriel Stokes
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[26 March 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.65
Summary:

Comments on a letter GS received from Ernst Klinkerfüss, which leaves GS convinced of the basic correctness of the views of GS and JH.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel14726

From:
George Griffith
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[26 October 1866]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0921.5; Reel 1083
Summary:

Resolution reappointing JH and others to committee to persuade Russian government to establish magnetic observatory at Tiflis [Tbilisi, Georgia] under direction of Prof. [?] Moritz.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel14831

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Unidentified
Date:
[18 June 1866]
Source of text:
Adler Planetarium
Summary:

[Writing to a correspondent in Manchester], apologizes that because of illness JH unable to take chair at 'your College Meeting.'

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1512

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Sir Charles Lyell
Date:
[13 October 1866]
Source of text:
APS B.D25.L.16 (C: RS:HS 24.172)
Summary:

Comments on some of CL's writings; further argues that a canal at Suez and/or Darien would have a major effect on European climate due to the effect of ocean currents coming through such canals.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1513

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Sir Charles Lyell
Date:
[20 October 1866]
Source of text:
APS B.D25.L.17 (C: RS:HS 24.173)
Summary:

Some minor suggestions regarding CL's proofs [see CL's 1866-10-19].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1514

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Sir Charles Lyell
Date:
[4 December 1866]
Source of text:
APS B.D25.L.18 (C: RS:HS 24.178)
Summary:

Appreciates the receipt of volume one of the tenth edition of CL's Principles of Geology.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1539

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
[George Smith]
Date:
[3 March 1866]
Source of text:
APS B.H435p.24
Summary:

Is trying to assist in finding someone to review a book [The Heavens] by [Amédée] Guillemin.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1599

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Edward Sabine
Date:
[11 August 1866]
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library 7656/RS534 (draft: RS:HS 15.277 & C: RS:HS 24.161
Summary:

Opposes sending expensive scientific equipment for J. B. N. Hennessey to use in India; suggests instead a variety of useful observations needing to be made, using inexpensive equipment. Discusses son's [Alexander] spectroscope observations of meteors.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel16

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[27 February 1866]
Source of text:
RGO 6.381.444
Summary:

About William Whewell's accident, and the ideas of E. F. W. Klinkerfüss on the behavior of light due to the motion of a star source.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1600

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Edward Sabine
Date:
[4 September 1866]
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library 7656/RS536 (draft: RS:HS 15.281 & C: RS:HS 24.1
Summary:

Further recommendations regarding useful equipment and observations to be made in India [see JH's 1866-8-11]. Agrees that meteorological experiments there are desirable. Offers JH's son John's experience of India to ES.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1601

From:
Edward Sabine
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[3 December 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.282 (C: Cambridge University Library 7656/RS552)
Summary:

Informs JH that his comments against sending a major telescope to India were decisive [see JH's 1866-8-11 & 1866-9-4]; biggest cost impediment was salary of observer.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1602

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Edward Sabine
Date:
[8 December 1866]
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library 7656/RS554 (ACCS: TxU:H/L-0378; Reel 1054
Summary:

In response to ES's 1866-12-6, JH sees no benefit in a great equatorial telescope in India being an itinerant instrument.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel17

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1 March 1866]
Source of text:
RGO 6.381.446
Summary:

Comments on the state of William Whewell's health, and about the theories of E. F. W. Klinkerfüss [see JH's 1866-2-27].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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