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Herschel5490

From:
Francis Beaufort
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[24 September 1848]
Source of text:
RS:HS 3.391
Summary:

Is sending on the proofs as he does not know the printer.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel5531

From:
Frederick W. Beechey
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[12 September 1848]
Source of text:
RS:HS 4.21
Summary:

Francis Beaufort thinks that FB's essay in the Admiralty Manual should include a few lines on the height of the waves of the ocean. FB has asked Beaufort to write these lines.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6774

From:
William Rutter Dawes
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[5 September 1848]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.91
Summary:

Returning JH's proof sheet with errors noted in pencil. Gives some of his recent observations on the satellites of Saturn.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6775

From:
William Rutter Dawes
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[26 September 1848]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.92
Summary:

Has experienced bad weather since the discovery of Saturn's 8th satellite. William Lassell proposes to call it Hyperion. Wishes Starfield Observatory was situated in a clearer atmosphere.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8396

From:
Augusta Ada King
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[13 September 1848]
Source of text:
RS:HS 19.281
Summary:

Lord Lovelace [William King] is collecting all works on moon's influence on weather. Asks for JH's suggestions.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel9

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[25 September 1848]
Source of text:
RGO 6.159.171
Summary:

Comments on observational quality obtainable with the great telescope of William Parsons [Earl of Rosse].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel9168

From:
William Whewell
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[4 September 1848]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.212
Summary:

Discusses WW's essay on tides for JH's Admiralty Manual, aspects of JH's Outlines Astr., and planetary astronomy in general.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel9169

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Whewell
Date:
[30 September 1848]
Source of text:
TC, Camb. Add. Ms.a.20775 (C: RS:HS 23.38)
Summary:

Discusses revisions in WW's and Frederick Beechey's papers in JH's Admiralty Manual. Also comments on drafting Outlines Astr., the controversy over the discovery of Neptune, and William Lassell's discovery of a new Saturnian satellite.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel9274

From:
Maria Edgeworth
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[23 September 1848]
Source of text:
RS:HS 7.30
Summary:

Was pleased to receive his note and to hear that he is in good health and spirits. Urges him to come to Ireland.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel9309

From:
William Empson
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
2 September [1848]
Source of text:
RS:HS 7.63
Summary:

Francis Jeffrey (Lord Jeffrey) is slowly recovering. He has stated several times that JH is the man to review the 2nd volume of Kosmos. Sends prospectus of the Physical Atlas. Returns to Haileybury on the 18th. Richard Jones is in Argyle.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

JHC42

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Sir William Jackson Hooker
Date:
12 September 1848
Source of text:
JDH/1/10 f.108-109, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

JDH thanks his family for letters. Discusses his finances, managed by Jas. Findly of Smith McVicar & Co. Full NIGER FLORA sent. Is glad WJH sent pocket sextant with telescope, will use them to observe terra nova. Lord Dalhousie has ordered the Sikkim Rajah, at Choombi, to let JDH go to the snowy passes. JDH hopes to go over Kinchin [Kanchenjunga] to Tibet so he can describe the world's highest mountain & determine the elevation of the plateau of Central Asia. It is 11000 feet at Leh, the Lakes of Mansarowar [Manasarovar], & Rawin Chad[?] but is undetermined at Yaroo--tsampa [Yalung Tsangpo] river. Alternatively JDH may go to Jongri village, the botany will be similar & include new things. Discusses the races of people: Booteas, meaning natives of Tibet not Bootan [Bhutan] serve the Rajah & oppress the Lepchas, who are North Himalayan Tartars. JDH has collections to send to Calcutta [Kolkata]. Has sent collectors to Nepal & Lepcha parties collect locally& help JDH & Clemanze dry specimens. JDH is keeping a meteorological record measuring rainfall & barometer temperature at Hodgson's house. Mentions Lady Rolles arboretum. Critiques Griffith's publications. Has written to Stocks. Is scathing about Dr Royle. Mentions Grant & Thomas Thomson. Has piece of silk, Tibetan letter & brick of tea for RBG Kew museum & Campbell has a shield. Mentions: copy of journal for Lord D. & republication of extracts, Royal visit to RBG Kew, [John] Lindley [JH] printing JDH's letters in the GARDENERS CHRONICLE & annoying Brown, JH's disapproval of JDH travelling before finishing the FLORA OF AUSTRALIA, Lord Auckland, illness of Sir L. Peel, Doom Palm, Calami, acorns, chestnuts, walnuts, Gordonia wallichii. JDH will return to Darjeeling, the richest field except for Cathmandu [Katmandu] & the Mishmees, to collect spring flora on Kinchin. [Hugh] Falconer is lecturing & maintaining Calcutta Gardens. Discusses cost of post & Citoyen's queries about generic affinities. Gurney has gone to sea.

Contributor:
Hooker Project
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Tyndall0359

From:
John Tyndall
To:
James Craven
Date:
Undated
Source of text:
MS JT/2/Hirst Journal/86-87, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
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Tyndall0360

From:
Thomas H Carroll
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Sep 24, 1848
Source of text:
MS JT/1/TYP/11/3492, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
Text Online

WCP7080

From:
João Augusto Correio
To:
José Antonio Correio Seixus
Date:
[September] [1848]
Source of text:
Wallace, A. R. (1853). In: A Narrative of Travels on the Amazon and Rio Negro, With an Account of the Native Tribes, and Observations on the Climate, Geology, and Natural History of the Amazon Valley . London: Reeve & Co. [pp. 58-59]
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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