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RS-MM-001719

From:
Robert Were Fox
To:
'My dear Friend' [unknown correspondent, possibly Michael Faraday?]
Date:
31 October 1840
Source of text:
MM/22/63, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

Herschel10101

From:
James Grahame
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[3 October 1840]
Source of text:
RS:HS 8.438
Summary:

Note accompanying a sketch of an earlier time in the lives of JG and JH (sketch by Jane Grahame).

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11023

From:
Richard Jones
To:
Margaret Brodie Herschel
Date:
[17 October 1840]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.365
Summary:

Has been troubled with his face again. Regarding the Scotch ale, which can be obtained to order in London. Saw J. F. Encke in town and he has now sailed. Francis Jeff[re]y (Lord Jeffrey) has been staying at Haileybury and speaks much of JH.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11367

From:
Humphrey Lloyd
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[30 October 1840]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.275
Summary:

Has just received JH's letter of August as he has been traveling on the continent. Will see G. B. Airy tomorrow. Comments on Johann von Lamont's observatory at Munich. Discussed the Report of the Magnetic arrangements with Edward Sabine. Encloses letters. L. A. J. Quetelet would like support from the R.S.L. for additional observers in his observatory.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11368

From:
Humphrey Lloyd
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[31 October 1840]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.276
Summary:

Regarding the publication of the magnetical and meteorological observations. Wonders if a letter from JH to the appropriate bodies would prove useful. Will give early consideration to the plan.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1186

From:
John Phillips
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[19 October 1840]
Source of text:
RS:HS B26.3
Summary:

Informs JH that the B.A.A.S. has placed him on a committee to provide two actinometers for observing high in the Alps.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1187

From:
John Phillips
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[19 October 1840]
Source of text:
RS:HS B26.4
Summary:

Informs JH that the B.A.A.S. has placed him on a committee to study the possibility of using balloon ascents to study the upper atmosphere.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1188

From:
John Phillips
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[19 October 1840]
Source of text:
RS:HS B26.5
Summary:

Informs JH that the B.A.A.S. has again placed him on the committee to supervise the translation and publication of foreign scientific memoirs.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel13529

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[13 October 1840]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0760.1; Reel 1089 (ACCS: RGO 6.340.283)
Summary:

Asks JH for comments on GA's proposals for the Standards Commission [see JH's 1840-7-29]; GA comments on some time spent recently in Glasgow and surrounding regions.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel14208

From:
John Phillips
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[19 October 1840]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0428.6; Reel 1093
Summary:

JH, G. B. Airy, and Thomas Henderson are appointed to oversee the publication of the reductions of the calculations of N. L. Lacaille's stars. They will have £184 at their disposal.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel14209

From:
John Phillips
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[19 October 1840]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0428.7; Reel 1093
Summary:

JH, William Whewell, George Peacock, Humphrey Lloyd, and Edward Sabine are appointed by the B.A.A.S. to study systems of simultaneous magnetical and meteorological observations. They will be granted £50.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1573

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
James Challis
Date:
[10 October 1840]
Source of text:
CUOL 1840.19
Summary:

A note of thanks for the eleventh volume of the Cambridge Observatory observations; JH is sorry that he missed JC in Oxford during the summer.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel2118

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
John David Roberton
Date:
[27 October 1840]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.365 (C: RS:HS 22.68)
Summary:

Meteorolite given to JH by [Thomas] Maclear has been lost. Asks JR for assistance in locating it.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel2119

From:
John David Roberton
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[31 October 1840]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.366
Summary:

Questioned porter concerning meteorolite, but received no additional information concerning its whereabouts. Hopes JH recovers it soon.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel2826

From:
Edward Sabine
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[8 October 1840]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.106
Summary:

Actinometers for [Louis] Agassiz and John Caldecott are ready. Asks if JH wants to compare them to his standard instrument. Excessive magnetic disturbances in May were found simultaneously in Göttingen and Toronto, but the curves do not correspond.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel2827

From:
Edward Sabine
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[12 October 1840]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.107
Summary:

Has requested John Caldecott to do what is needful to his own and [Louis] Agassiz's actinometers. Mentions great magnetic disturbances in June are not correlated in Toronto, Greenwich, and other observatories. Mentions proposal for correlation of observations between U.S. and Britain. ES leaves soon for Guernsey.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4343

From:
William Henry Smyth
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[30 October 1840]
Source of text:
RS:HS 16.267
Summary:

Disappointed with format of Nautical Almanac. Arguments over this have caused many hard feeling among R.S.L. members. Details the controversy.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel524

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[30 October 1840]
Source of text:
RGO 6.340.284
Summary:

Is sending comments on GA's proposals [see GA's 1840-10-13]; JH has been asked about obtaining a heliometer from Munich; seeks GA's opinion on the quality of the brass workmanship in Munich.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel525

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[30 October 1840]
Source of text:
RGO 6.340.286
Summary:

Provides detailed comments on GA's circulated material on standards [see JH's 1840-10-30]; tends toward maintaining basic units but finding decimal relationships between them.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6595

From:
C[harles Louis] Chevalier
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[2 October 1840]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.336
Summary:

Thanks for his letter regarding his own new object glass. As he has shown interest he sends further details of his latest modifications.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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