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Herschel11144

From:
Hermann Kindt
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[15 July 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.32
Summary:

Requests that JH write a few lines to an old friend of HK's in Germany.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8128

From:
Edmund Wheeler
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[22 July 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.394
Summary:

Offers to lecture to JH's 'association.' Describes microscope equipment designed by EW and son, who now manufactures portable telescopes. Diagrams and questions about new object glasses and compound lenses. Offers free telescope to Alexander Herschel. Progress of Atlantic Cable offers good lecture topic for next session.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8129

From:
Edmund Wheeler
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[24 July 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.395
Summary:

Thanks JH for letter and explanation. Will contact Charles Pritchard for details. Please forward 'enclosed' to [Alexander Herschel].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8097

From:
Johann Karl Friedrich Zöllner
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[26 July 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.363
Summary:

A note to accompany the sending of some papers to JH and the R. A. S.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7812

From:
William Walker
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[26 July 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.20
Summary:

Will expect JH on Monday.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4307

From:
William Mathews, Jr.
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[28 July 1865]
Source of text:
Harvard: Houghton AAH 67m-67 (96)
Summary:

Replies to JH's letter of 1865-5-25 concerning the altitude/temperature equation.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11381

From:
Humphrey Lloyd
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[29 July 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.289
Summary:

Comments that A. J. Fresnel's papers in the Annales de chimie are really incomplete sketches of theories, which he developed later. Theory clearly stated in [Felix] Billet's Traité d'optique physique. Friend of his at Trinity College has produced a peculiar liquid.

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John Herschel Project
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