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RS-MM-001117

From:
John Frederick William Herschel
To:
George Gabriel Stokes
Date:
10 October 1856
Source of text:
MM/16/157, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

RS-MM-001123

From:
John Frederick William Herschel
To:
William Sharpey
Date:
13 November 1856
Source of text:
MM/16/163, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

SOMERVILLE305

From:
John Herschel
To:
Woronzow Greig
Date:
2 Aug 1856
Source of text:
HS 9.38, RS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse

SOMERVILLE306

From:
John Herschel
To:
Woronzow Greig
Date:
7 Aug 1856
Source of text:
HS 9.39, RS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse

Herschel10151

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Woronzow Greig
Date:
[2 August 1856]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.38 & 23.177
Summary:

Returns Mary Somerville's note and the papers. Does not feel competent to give his opinion on the papers as a whole as there are parts outside his field of study. Comments on some of the points raised, and on the whole he disagrees with the conclusions of the papers.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10152

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Woronzow Greig
Date:
[7 August 1856]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.39 & 23.178
Summary:

Has kept Mary Somerville's papers a little longer. If these papers are to be published they would require considerable revision.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1113

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Gabriel Stokes
Date:
[12 October 1856]
Source of text:
RS:HS 25.10.11
Summary:

Acknowledges receipt of a paper by [William] Pole, which JH will review.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1114

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Gabriel Stokes
Date:
[9 November 1856]
Source of text:
RS:HS 25.10.12
Summary:

Needs more time for reviewing Pole's paper [see JH's 1856-10-12].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1115

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Gabriel Stokes
Date:
[14 November 1856]
Source of text:
RS:HS 25.10.13a
Summary:

Is sending in JH's report on Pole's paper [see JH's 1856-11-9].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1116

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Gabriel Stokes
Date:
[14 November 1856]
Source of text:
RS:HS 25.10.13b
Summary:

Thanks the council of the R.S.L. through GS for the gift of a portrait of Nicholas Copernicus.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11177

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Francis Charles Knowles
Date:
[6 December 1856]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.67 & 23.184
Summary:

Would be inclined to try a combination of cryolite and silex to obtain a glass. Comments on his process for decomposing alumina by cyanide of sodium. Sorry to see that FK uses the current forms of chemical notation.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1132

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
John Wrottesley
Date:
[28 March 1856]
Source of text:
RS:HS 25.12.2
Summary:

Is able to sit up in a wheel chair only a few hours a day; JH's illness has left him out of the sphere of scientific activity so he is unable to make any useful suggestions about medals.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1150

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Augustus De Morgan
Date:
[1856-6-7 or earlier
Source of text:
RS:HS 25.14.7
Summary:

Wants to make a new musical instrument on the principle of resonance; JH also suggests some improvements in the construction of the organ.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1158

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Stanley Jevons
Date:
[1856 or later?]
Source of text:
RS:HS 25.14.16
Summary:

Not aware of any experiments to ascertain the amount of personal error in the estimate of time of a star transit. JH then comments on monetary matters including the value and gold equivalence of sovereigns issued by the Mint.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11614

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
John William Lubbock
Date:
[19 March 1856]
Source of text:
RS:HS 23.167
Summary:

Is sending a letter of support for a neighbor for the position of commander of constabulary about to be established in Kent.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11615

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Francis Charles Knowles
Date:
[16 October 1856]
Source of text:
RS:HS 23.182
Summary:

Thinks that aluminum coating on telescope mirrors may work [see FK's 1856-10-9]; also suggests looking into flouric glass containing aluminum for lenses of low dispersion power.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel12582

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
B. Osborne
Date:
[5 May 1856]
Source of text:
RS:HS 23.169
Summary:

The Admiralty has given a grant for an astronomical expedition to the Peak of Teneriffe, and JH is now providing a list of details that should be observed in such an expedition.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel12680

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
James Booth
Date:
[2 December 1856]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0101; Reel 1054
Summary:

Compliments JB on publication of 'Trigonometry of the Parabola.' Recalls JH's papers on catenaries.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel12792

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
John Gellibrand Hubbard
Date:
[16 May 1856]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0197; Reel 1054
Summary:

Responds to Hubbard's inquiry about coinage.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel13039

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
James Calder Stewart
Date:
[16 July 1856]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0452; Reel 1055
Summary:

Deposit enclosed money at Cadet House for John Herschel's readmission [to Addiscombe].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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