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Herschel7726

From:
James Samuelson
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[20 January 1864]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 13/1.4; Reel 10
Summary:

Needs Zeitschrift volume; then JH may have it back [see JS's 1864-1-15]. JH's article should be 10-12 pages. Compliments JH's writings as popular without being 'popularising.'

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7739

From:
Richard Christopher Carrington
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[15 January 1864]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 13/2.1; Reel 10
Summary:

RC's book [Observations of the Spots on the Sun] is done. First copy, exhibited at R.A.S. last week, was well reported in R.A.S.M.N. Will send copy to JH.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7740

From:
Richard Christopher Carrington
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[18 January 1864]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 13/2.2; Reel 10
Summary:

Formulas for determining rotation rates of sunspots relative to latitude on solar surface. Believes equatorial parts of photosphere are dragged faster than others. Speculates on rotation rate of solid body below (if such exists).

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7765

From:
Charles Pritchard
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[20 January 1864]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 15/5.2; Reel 11
Summary:

Gratitude for JH's gift of Caroline Herschel's autograph manuscripts to R.A.S.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7805

From:
James Thomas Walker
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[2 January 1864]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.13
Summary:

Received JH's two letters acknowledging receipt of 'Volume of Tables of Heights' of the Great Trigonometrical Survey of India. Hopes to visit JH and discuss phenomenon of terrestrial refraction. Received valuable assistance on tables from JH's son John.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8353

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
H. R. H.[?]
Date:
[1864?]
Source of text:
RS:HS 19.155
Summary:

Asks that consideration be given to 'wishes of the Cadet' in selecting a regiment for him.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel881

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Unidentified
Date:
[1864?]
Source of text:
JHS 5.2
Summary:

In response to the gift of a book, JH comments on the philosophy of knowledge, and goes on to say that JH agrees with [John Stuart ?] Mill's rejection of the syllogism as a means of argument. In the postscript, JH comments on the nature of heat.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel894

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
John Herschel (son)
Date:
[1864?]
Source of text:
JHS 5.14
Summary:

About geodesic books and JH's encouragement to John to keep asking questions; indeed JH is almost insistent on son John's writing to JH with questions, book needs, and confidences. JH also talks about finding the arithmetical mean of a number of observations. [Also included is the 1st page of a letter to John from one of his sisters.]

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

JHC1137

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Dr Thomas Anderson
Date:
19 January 1864
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/1 f.71-72, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC1457

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Miles Joseph Berkeley
Date:
--1864?
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.257-258, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC1458

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Miles Joseph Berkeley
Date:
--1864?
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.259, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

A letter to Miels Berkeley from Joseph Hooker thanking him for information about G. Baker and mentioning that they had recently been to see Dr John Paget for a diagnosis.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC234

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Reverend John Gunn
Date:
29 January 1864
Source of text:
JDH/2/22/2 f.63, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

JDH writes to inform his uncle [Reverend John Gunn] that H. Christy will send him a set of [geological] specimens from the Dordogne cave, which illustrate the strata where relics of man are found. They will be sent through Falconer. JDH wishes to show Gunn some of his Wedgwood pottery: a plaque by John Flaxman showing Achilles & Hector at Troy, a medallion of Mitten & Erasmus by Goldsmith, & one of the Prince & Princess of Wales along with 40 other portraits. In a note added under the signature he adds that Grove has told him about flint implements found in a cave at Bethlehem.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

Tyndall2060

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Hermann Helmholtz
Date:
Undated
Source of text:
MS JT/1/T/503, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Tyndall2061

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Annette Roche
Date:
2nd, January, 1864
Source of text:
MS JT/1/TYP/11/3852-3, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Tyndall2062

From:
Joseph Gill
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Undated
Source of text:
27 (1864), pp. 84-91, Phil. Mag.
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Tyndall2063

From:
Juliet Pollock
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Undated
Source of text:
MS JT/1/P/223, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Tyndall2064

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Hermann Helmholtz
Date:
16th. January 1864
Source of text:
MS JT/1/T/481, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Tyndall2065

From:
Gustav Kirchhoff
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
19ten Jan. 1864.
Source of text:
MS JT/1/K/8, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Tyndall2066

From:
William Snow Harris
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
January 25th 1864
Source of text:
MS JT/1/TYP/2/481, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Tyndall2071

From:
Friedrich Reusch
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Jan. 28, 1864
Source of text:
27 (1864), pp. 192-4; MS JT/1/R/16, Phil. Mag.; RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
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