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Herschel10684

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Sir William Huggins
Date:
[27 March 1869]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.254
Summary:

Comments on the radiant heat of heavenly bodies and the motion of Sirius.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10685

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Sir William Huggins
Date:
[28 May 1869]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.262
Summary:

About an increase in sun spot activity.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10687

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Sir William Huggins
Date:
[3 June 1869]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.267
Summary:

Note to accompany the reported observations of JH's son John.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10689

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Sir William Huggins
Date:
[9 June 1869]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.52 & 24.268
Summary:

Thinks it would be best to send his son's letter to G. G. Stokes at the R.S.L. Cannot give a positive opinion on WH's plan for seeing the prominences. Finds some discrepancies in the Report of WH's paper on Sirius and the paper itself.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10691

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Sir William Huggins
Date:
[20 September 1869]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.54 & 24.280
Summary:

Suggests the planet Mercury may be a good subject for his spectroscopic experiments. Gives comments and explanations on his proposals. May like to communicate the results to the R.A.S.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10692

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Sir William Huggins
Date:
[21 September 1869]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.281
Summary:

Note to correct calculations in an earlier letter [see JH's 1869-9-20].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10694

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Sir William Huggins
Date:
[22 September 1869]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.56 & 24.282
Summary:

Burn his [last] letter as he made a blunder in his geometry. Cannot imagine how he made the blunder. Gives new formulae for observing Mercury.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10805

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Emily Hardcastle
Date:
[4 May 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.154
Summary:

Comments on EH's 'Magic pictures', which JH said he produced and described in a paper twenty-six years earlier; JH is however unable to explain the process chemically.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10813

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
J. Park Harrison
Date:
1865-5-16 or later
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.165 verso
Summary:

Replies to JH's 1865-5-16, expressing thanks for materials sent. Comments on temperature.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10814

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Hartley
Date:
[16 November 1864]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.166 (C: RS:HS 24.67)
Summary:

Thanks for the beautiful engine-turned patterns; they exceed in beauty anything he has seen before. Should think he would have no difficulty in polishing reflectors.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10858

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
H. Hotham
Date:
[2 May 1867]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.209 & 24.195
Summary:

Thank you for his letter. There are no misprints or conflicting statements in his Familiar Lectures. Explains the various points.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10871

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Mr. Hutton
Date:
[2 June 1867]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.220 & 24.185
Summary:

Returns his Australian friend's speculations. Comments on these theories regarding atoms, etc., and gives other books and articles showing that his theories are not unique.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10930

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Henry James
Date:
[30 September 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.276 & 24.122
Summary:

Regrets delay in acknowledging his Notes on the Great Pyramid; it was due to a temporary loss of the work. Finds HJ's theory on the inclination of the passages very practical. Comments on the accuracy of the pyramid builders.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10954

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Henry Anthony Jeffreys
Date:
[12 February 1861]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.298 & 23.325
Summary:

Returns the petitions. Regarding the one for the maintenance of the church rates. Has qualms about signing this as he does not entirely agree with some of the statements.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10991

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Henry Bence Jones
Date:
[27 July 1864]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.337 (C: RS:HS 24.55)
Summary:

His son informs him of the projected series of lectures at the Royal Institution on weather forecasting and meteorology. Comments on this.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10993

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Henry Bence Jones
Date:
[19 June 1869]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.339 (C: RS:HS 24.270)
Summary:

Grieves to say that he will be unable to attend the meeting at the Royal Institution to honor Michael Faraday, as his health is so poor. Thinks Faraday was a great man in all ways.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11073

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Mrs. Richard Jones
Date:
[19 December 1869]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.294
Summary:

Best wishes on Mrs. Jones's birthday.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11094

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
James Prescott Joule
Date:
[21 October 1863]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.429
Summary:

Thanks for his paper on amalgams. Regarding the amalgam of iron, he pointed it out many years ago in his Bakerian lecture. Would be interesting to experiment further with iron in solution of mercury.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11153

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Henry Samuel King
Date:
[20 December 1869]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.41 & 24.295
Summary:

Many thanks for Mrs. King's volume of poetry. Comments on some of the poems.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11167

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Ernst F. W. Klinkerfues
Date:
[24 February 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.57
Summary:

Has now received his pamphlet. Does not agree with its findings, but will submit it to the R.S.L., though it cannot be printed in R.S.P.T. as it has already appeared elsewhere. Comments on some of EK's theories.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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