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Herschel10834

From:
Edward C. Herrick
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1 November 1838]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.185
Summary:

Is interested in meteoric showers and shooting stars. Encloses a letter [Copy preserved at Yale University] to be sent to someone at the Cape for observations from the Southern Hemisphere.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel5456

From:
Francis Beaufort
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1 November 1838]
Source of text:
RS:HS 3.358 & ACC: Hydrographic Office Letter Book
Summary:

Has prepared a room for him and Edward Sabine to discuss Australian affairs on Tuesday next.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6693

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[2 November] 1838
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.10
Summary:

Has promised Alexander Macleay that he would send details of the nets JH used to catch pelagic animals.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-430

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Frederick William Herschel, 1st baronet
Date:
2 [Nov 1838]
Source of text:
The Royal Society (HS6: 10)
Summary:

Requests information for W. S. Macleay on JFWH’s method of catching pelagic animals while ship is under way.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel9619

From:
Sir John Franklin
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[2 November 1838]
Source of text:
RS:HS 7.359
Summary:

Was pleased to hear of his great reception on his return to England. Endeavoring to start a small scientific society and would be glad of any communications from JH. Sends a series of tidal and meteorological observations made at Port Arthur.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel5582

From:
Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[4 November 1838]
Source of text:
RS:HS 4.72
Summary:

Responds to concerns about effect of temperature on measurement of stellar parallax [see JH'S 1838-10-24]; comments on other observations.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel12274

From:
John Pringle Nichol
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[4 November 1838]
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.131
Summary:

Has just returned from a German tour and has seen JH's letter to Dr. D. MacFarlan. Outlines the procedures that led to JH being proposed as the new Rector of the University. Comments on the illustrations of two of his own works. Resolution passed urging the free examination of foreign astronomical instruments in public institutions.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3057

From:
Adolphe Quetelet
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[6 November 1838]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.212
Summary:

Has received JH's letter of 29 October. No need to thank for meteorological observations. Done in interest of science. Sends measurements of December 1837 and other bulletins. Asks JH to send his extra copy of AQ's Correspondence mathématique of July 1838 to [J. D.] Robertson. Asks more about satellites of Saturn. Thanks for information on meteors.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel9282

From:
Gilbert Elliot, Second Earl of Minto
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[8 November 1838]
Source of text:
RS:HS 7.37 (C: NatLibScot MS.12051, f.59)
Summary:

Has not returned to town yet, but will be happy to discuss the proposals in JH's last letter. Attaches more importance to JH's words than any resolutions of the B.A.A.S.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel14202

From:
John Phillips
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[8 November 1838]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0428.1; Reel 1093
Summary:

B.A.A.S. requests that JH head a committee to work on the reduction of observations of N. L. Lacaille's stars. G. B. Airy and Thomas Henderson will also be assigned to the committee.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel13802

From:
William Francis Cowper
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[8 November 1838]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0153; Reel 1087
Summary:

Prime minister Lord Melbourne [William Lamb] will receive JH's deputation and Chancellor of Exchequer [Thomas Spring-Rice] whenever convenient.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel2085

From:
Charles Richardson
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[12 November 1838]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.334
Summary:

Grateful for permission to use JH's work on sound for the dictionary [see RS:HS 14.333]. Suggests JH write a synopsis.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel2742

From:
Edward Sabine
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[12 November 1838]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.22
Summary:

Humphrey Lloyd will attend the meeting [announced in ES 1838-10-24].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3456

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[12 November 1838]
Source of text:
RS MM.16.147 (ACCS: RGO 6.675.213)
Summary:

No one on committee has taken sufficient initiative to obtain funding for magnetic instruments. Hopes S. H. Christie and JH will act in this regard. Discusses doubts about South Polar magnetic expedition.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1251

From:
James South
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[12 November 1838]
Source of text:
RS:HS B27.16a
Summary:

Informs JH that in a letter to The Times signed by Richard Sheepshanks JH's name appears. JS wants to know if JH is aware of this fact.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11358

From:
Humphrey Lloyd
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[13 November 1838]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.266
Summary:

Has been considering with Edward Sabine that morning the requirements for the fixed observatories. Gives lists and also estimate of finances required for a three-year period.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel2743

From:
Edward Sabine
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[14 November 1838]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.23
Summary:

Speaks of translations being made of papers from Resultate [aus den Beobachtungen der Magnetische Vereins], some of which papers indirectly pertain to ES's simultaneous observations. Lists expenses.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1729

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[14 November 1838]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0626.4;.Reel 1084 (ACCS: RGO 6.340.273)
Summary:

The Standards Commission will need to meet soon; JH is asked to indicate most convenient, and most inconvenient, days. [See GA's 1838-6-9].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10246

From:
George Grey
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[17 November 1838]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.132
Summary:

As JH has taken so much interest in education at the Cape, he would like some converse with him before drafting the final instructions to Sir G. Napier.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10551

From:
Henry Holland
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[17 November 1838]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.428
Summary:

Inquires about unusual weather at Cape of Good Hope in late 1836. Was there an epidemic of influenza at Cape early in 1837?

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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