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Herschel1713

From:
Harry George Wakelyn Smith
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[13 September 1837]
Source of text:
RS:HS 16.200
Summary:

Note accompanying copy of dispatch relating to Kaffir wars.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1579

From:
Mr. Lichtenberg
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[15 September 1837]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0332
Summary:

Has communicated information from JH about JH's aunt Caroline to Mary Baldwin. Mary Baldwin has decided to go to visit Caroline Herschel.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7891

From:
George Robert Waterhouse
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[20 September 1837]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.94
Summary:

Received JH's collection of African insects, etc. Describes its luminous molluscs, crustaceans, Hottentot fish. Government granted £1500 to [William?] Smith and £1000 to C. R. Darwin to publish discoveries, and £500 to R.A.S. [Elizabeth Ann Waterhouse adds 1.5 pages to Margaret Brodie Herschel about birth of EW's second daughter, deaths in family.]

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11835

From:
Thomas Maclear
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
22 September [1837]
Source of text:
RS:HS 12.194
Summary:

Shall have the barometers and thermometers (readings?) tomorrow. Was disappointed with his observations. Admiralty has allowed the extra expense. Comments on the report on the death of 'poor young Musgrave.' Does JH know a particular problem in the damming of water?

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11839

From:
Thomas Maclear
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
26] September [1837
Source of text:
RS:HS 12.198
Summary:

News of Wickham [Commander of the Beagle] and J. L. Stokes, who are still at Simon's Bay. Called on George Grey and Franklin Lushington yesterday. Childe Harold from Bombay will sail about Saturday. Did JH see Wilhelm Beer's and J. H. Mädler's paper in the Comptes rendus on the 6th and 7th satellites of Saturn?

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel9618

From:
Sir John Franklin
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[30 September 1837]
Source of text:
RS:HS 7.358
Summary:

Sends a parcel received from England and the meteorological and tidal registers kept at Port Arthur. Has he heard of the grievous loss to Sydney by the death of Dr. Burnett? Hopes he is progressing with his labors.

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John Herschel Project
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