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From:
John Frederick William Herschel
To:
Royal Society
Date:
1 March 1869
Source of text:
MM/14/216, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
John Herschel
To:
Mary Somerville
Date:
12 Apr 1861
Source of text:
HS 16.365, RS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse
From:
John Herschel
To:
Mary Somerville
Date:
30 Jul 1863
Source of text:
HS 16.369, RS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse
From:
John Herschel
To:
Mary Somerville
Date:
11 Apr 1865
Source of text:
HS 16.372, RS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse
From:
John Herschel
To:
Agnes Greig
Date:
11 May 1866
Source of text:
MSH 3 / 303, Dep. c. 370, Bod, MS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse
From:
John Herschel
To:
Miss Somerville
Date:
3 Jan 1867
Source of text:
MSH 3 / 304, Dep. c. 370, Bod, MS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse
From:
John Herschel
To:
Joseph Barclay Pentland
Date:
7 Feb 1869
Source of text:
HS 14.155, RS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse
From:
John Herschel
To:
Mary Somerville
Date:
14 Mar 1869
Source of text:
HS 16.378, RS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse
From:
John Herschel
To:
Mary Somerville
Date:
14 Mar 1869
Source of text:
MSH 3 / 309, Dep. c. 370, Bod, MS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse
From:
John Herschel
To:
Mary Somerville
Date:
30 Jul 1869
Source of text:
HS 24.275, RS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse
Text Online
From:
John Frederick William Herschel
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
24 July 1861
Source of text:
IET MS SC 2
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Johannes von Gumpach
Date:
[3 September 1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.73 & 23.386
Summary:

Thanks for the pamphlet on the Figure of the Earth, but regrets he cannot agree with its conclusions. Points out some of the more serious errors.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Johannes von Gumpach
Date:
[29 October 1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.76 & 23.390
Summary:

Does not agree with the conclusion of JG's pamphlet, nor does he think an expedition necessary. Suggests termination of correspondence.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Mrs. Gardiner
Date:
[25 April 1864]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.90
Summary:

Has not advertised Herschel House as yet and does not know whether to let or sell it, but would be prepared to discuss the matter with principals only.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Rider Garrett
Date:
[29 August 1868]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.94 & 24.225
Summary:

Has received her version of the first canto of Dante's Inferno. Did she know it has already been done in an almost perfect way by Mr. Ford, prebend of Exeter? Comments on various points of her translation.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Robert Grove
Date:
1862
Source of text:
RS:HS 23.379
Summary:

Thanks for JG's Correlation of Physical Forces; JH is still uncertain about the nature of heat.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
James Haig[?]
Date:
[4 June 1869]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.157 & 24.266
Summary:

Has received his book on symbolism from the publishers. Comments on some of its views. Feels he has been treated a little harshly.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
James Haig[?]
Date:
[1 July 1864]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.160 & 24.50
Summary:

Thanks for his books. Encloses one of his own pamphlets on Atoms, which will show his personal view of mind versus matter. Comments on some of Haig's terminology.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Robert Harley
Date:
[15 March 1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS 23.365
Summary:

About the solution of algebraic equations and JH's previous work on this topic.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Robert Harley
Date:
1866-3
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.149
Summary:

Comments on analytic symbolism in mathematics.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project