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Herschel12157

From:
Minna Mädler
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
1842-3-28 to 1842-4-
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.15
Summary:

Has only just received JH's parcel dispatched some six months ago, due to lack of transport during the winter months. JH's poem on the Old Telescope has been in great demand. Pass the enclosed to Miss Hamilton. Would like an autograph of JH for her album.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel12437

From:
George Peacock
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[25 March 1842]
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.294
Summary:

About arrangements to visit JH at Collingwood.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel14710

From:
'Q in a Corner'
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[16 March 1842]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0908; Reel 1083
Summary:

Encloses newspaper clipping that reports JH is member of commission of inquiry on weights and measures. Protests that the poor are defrauded more by false scales than by nonstandard weights. Proposes remedy.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3077

From:
Adolphe Quetelet
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[14 March 1842]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.242
Summary:

Sends works on meteorology and instructions for natural periodic phenomena. More proselytes in horary observations. Asks for JH's recommendations for those observing meteors in the other hemisphere.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3809

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Robert Hunt
Date:
[15 March 1842]
Source of text:
George Eastman House, 12.17
Summary:

Believes that the operative rays in JH's thermographic process are neither 'calorific' nor 'thermal'.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3994

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Caroline Lucretia Herschel
Date:
9] March [1842
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0587.4; Reel 1058
Summary:

Remarks that he is 50 years old, and that he and CH have 'seen something of that odd and most changeable compound called Human Nature.'

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4712

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[10 March 1842]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.101 (C: RGO 6.340.341)
Summary:

Regarding JH's receipt of the 'Standard' reports. Remarks on the electrometer and barometer in the recent storm.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4713

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[15 March 1842]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.102 (C: RGO 6.368.648)
Summary:

Regarding his letter writing. Has a promise of a trip on the Dover Railway.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4714

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[21 March 1842]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.103 (C: RGO 6.368.651)
Summary:

Hopes to meet JH on 29 March.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6159

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Francis Baily
Date:
[1842-3?]
Source of text:
RS:HS 3.285
Summary:

Proposes to come to London to visit him. Has just received the proofs of Robert Maine's paper on parallax.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel65

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[11 March 1842]
Source of text:
RGO 6.368.646
Summary:

Arranging a visit for GA to Collingwood.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel66

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[18 March 1842]
Source of text:
RGO 6.368.649
Summary:

Final arrangements for GA's visit to JH [see GA's 1842-3-15].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6742

From:
William Rutter Dawes
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[2 March 1842]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.60
Summary:

Has received from William Lassell some of the new observations he carried out with his new 9" speculum. Comments on these and various clusters of stars changing their position.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8561

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Unidentified
Date:
[25 March 1842]
Source of text:
BostonPubLib Ms. Eng. 204
Summary:

Appreciates receiving the curious fossil, even though JH knows little of such matters.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8625

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Roderick Impey Murchison
Date:
[20 March 1842]
Source of text:
Geological Society
Summary:

Responds to RM's request for an analysis of the cause of the difference in climate between Orenburg and Catherineburg in Russia. Agrees that Geological Society can print JH's Alpine memoir.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel9589

From:
Thomas I. M. Forster
To:
Margaret Brodie Herschel
Date:
[9 March 1842]
Source of text:
RS:HS 7.330
Summary:

Will be pleased to come to Collingwood at any time and hopes the Herschels will also visit them. Her son was right about the word quinque. Comments on the various ways different people observe the colors of stars. Will be pleased to see the poetic scraps.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel9590

From:
Thomas I. M. Forster
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[23 March 1842]
Source of text:
RS:HS 7.331
Summary:

Will be pleased to visit them before they move from Tunbridge Wells. Comments on the Arabic names of stars.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel9738

From:
Alfred Gautier
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[18 March 1842]
Source of text:
RS:HS 8.85
Summary:

Regarding the publication of his own observations on Halley's Comet; comments on these. [L. F.] Wartmann was very pleased with the results of his recent visit to England. Has been occupied with political problems. Looks forward to seeing the completion of JH's Cape observations.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Tyndall0127

From:
Martin Cuddy
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Tuesday night, March 8th 1842.
Source of text:
MS JT/1/11/3754, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
Text Online

Tyndall0128

From:
Maria Payne
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
March 12th
Source of text:
MS JT/1/11/3842, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
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