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Herschel5461

From:
Francis Beaufort
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[28 March 1839]
Source of text:
RS:HS 3.363
Summary:

Has been requested in confidence to ascertain whether JH would be interested in accepting the Savilian professorship and the Radcliffe Observatory.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel5505

From:
Francis Beaufort
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
1 March [1839?]
Source of text:
RS:HS 3.405
Summary:

Is grateful for the information on photography. Encloses president's card.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel5506

From:
Francis Beaufort
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
5 March [1839]
Source of text:
RS:HS 3.406
Summary:

Is pleased to hear that JH has taken steps to avoid the carelessness at the Post Office. Sends original of R. W. Fox's paper.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel5855

From:
William Buckland
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[20 March 1839]
Source of text:
RS:HS 4.324
Summary:

Three positions are vacant at Oxford due to the death of S. P. Rigaud. Would JH be interested in applying for them as it would be a great honor to have him at Oxford.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6029

From:
Francis Baily
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[2 March 1839]
Source of text:
RS:HS 3.154
Summary:

Regarding the four foot scale standard of Thomas Maclear. Will be pleased to see him on Thursday. R.A.S. has had a letter from the Treasury regarding a grant for Glasgow Observatory.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8032

From:
John Wrottesley
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[22 March 1839]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.299
Summary:

Applying for astronomical observer and Savilian professorship of astronomy at Oxford. Asks JH to convey this to R.A.S. Council and testify on JW's behalf.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8033

From:
John Wrottesley
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[27 March 1839]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.300
Summary:

Sorry to have made request contrary to R.A.S. policy. Asks permission to transmit JH's reply to electors for [Radcliffe] Observatory.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8388

From:
Charles Grant
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[6 March 1839]
Source of text:
RS:HS 19.273
Summary:

Would like to assist James Stewart as JH asked, but CG resigned recently as Colonial Secretary and cannot help. [JH annotation: 'Called on Lord G. [Glenelg, i.e., Charles Grant] with Js St. [James Stewart] May 1/39.']

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8597

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Johann Franz Encke
Date:
[24 March 1839]
Source of text:
AdWDDR Encke 49
Summary:

Asks JE to express JH's gratitude to the Royal Academy of Berlin for electing JH a foreign member. Discusses JE's observations of divisions in the ring of Saturn, JH's sightings of Saturn's satellites, the British Antarctic expedition, and comets.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8624

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Roderick Impey Murchison
Date:
[29 March 1839]
Source of text:
Geological Society
Summary:

Declines RM's request that JH become a candidate for Oxford's Savilian Professorship [see RM's 1839-3-27]. JH plans to move farther from London.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8986

From:
James Hudson
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[9 March 1839]
Source of text:
UCT JH Letters A1.10
Summary:

Thanks JH for the interest JH has taken in him, but declines the offer to teach in the Government Free Schools at the Cape of Good Hope.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8987

From:
George Phipps
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[22 March 1839]
Source of text:
UCT JH Letters A1.11
Summary:

Transmits a letter from Mr. McMaster offering to teach at the Cape of Good Hope.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel9104

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Whewell
Date:
[1839-3]
Source of text:
TC, Camb. Add. Ms.a.20737 (C: RS:HS 22.41)
Summary:

Asks WW to approve cost of report forms to be sent to the Breslau Observatory. Has heard that WW's book is nearing completion and contains 'heresy.' Has just submitted a paper on 'photographical matters' to the R.S.L.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel9105

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Whewell
Date:
20] March [1839
Source of text:
TC, Camb. Add. Ms.a.20738 (C: RS:HS 22.20)
Summary:

Informs WW about various matters relating to James Ross's expedition. Is considering purchasing a house in Kent.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel9106

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Whewell
Date:
[31 March 1839]
Source of text:
TC, Camb. Add. Ms.a.20739 (C: RS:HS 22.6)
Summary:

Thanks WW for some verses. Informs him that James Ross's expedition has been approved. Discusses various aspects of the expedition, e.g., the placing of instruments on Van Diemen's Land [Tasmania].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel9240

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Edward C. Herrick
Date:
[1 March 1839]
Source of text:
Yale Univ.
Summary:

Has sent on one of EH's two letters to Cape Town. Reports on meteor showers, especially meteors seen on 14 Nov. 1837. P.S. adds that JH has received a number of papers by EH.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel9337

From:
Johann Franz Encke
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[9 March 1839]
Source of text:
RS:HS 7.91
Summary:

JH has been elected to the Prussian Academy of Science; comments on JE's astronomical observations.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel9655

From:
Thomas Galloway
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[12 March 1839]
Source of text:
RS:HS 8.5
Summary:

Sending the resolution of the Council relating to the Glasgow Observatory. Would be pleased if JH would sign it and forward it to the Treasury.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel9729

From:
Carl Friedrich Gauss
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[31 March 1839]
Source of text:
RS:HS 8.76
Summary:

Thanks for his letter informing him of his having been awarded the Copley medal. Was pleased to receive the observations of the magnetic declination and inclination of London. Projected expedition of Captain J. C. Ross pleases him. C. F. Gauss is now preparing the third volume of the Resultate. Would like JH's opinion on one of the papers in this volume. Gives his own views on the magnetic poles.

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