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Herschel3510

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1866?]-2
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.399c
Summary:

Corrects misinformation about refraction and dispersion of mercury ethyl and mercury methyl.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4091

From:
Isaac Todhunter
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[2 February 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.357
Summary:

Makes suggestions for the solution to the three point probability problem using integrals of infinity.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11166

From:
Ernst F. W. Klinkerfues
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[8 February 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.56
Summary:

Sending a pamphlet on the quality of refracted light. Hopes JH will communicate it to the R.S.L.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4160

From:
B. W. S. Vallack
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[12 February 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.417a
Summary:

Responds to JH's criticisms of his binocular telescope plans.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6399

From:
Julia Margaret Cameron
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[18 February 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.164
Summary:

Is grateful for the praise JH has given her photographic efforts. Intends to do a series of life-sized head photographs. Is anxious about Henry Taylor, who has been overworking in the colonial cause.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4114

From:
Charles Pritchard
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[19 February 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.98
Summary:

Informs JH, Charles Babbage, and James South that they are the surviving original members of the R.A S. Requests JH write an account of the R.A.S.'s founding. Discusses the evidence of the 'personal will' of God in creation.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4289

From:
Goodwin Kilburne
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[20 February 1866]
Source of text:
Harvard: Houghton AAH 67m-67 (63)
Summary:

Announces a committee meeting for a volunteer group.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11444

From:
John Lubbock
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[22 February 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.357
Summary:

Thanks for his letter. Agrees that the stones of Stonehenge must have come from the neighborhood. The chips in the barrows must have come from the hewn stones of Stonehenge.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4164

From:
George Thurnell
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[23 February 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.437
Summary:

Praises JH's essay 'The Yard, the Pendulum, and the Metre.' Believes C. P. Smyth's theories concerning the Great Pyramid being a standard of measurement.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4082

From:
William Lloyd Birbeck
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[23 February 1866]
Source of text:
Harvard: Houghton AAH 67m-67 (62)
Summary:

Offers to purchase scientific manuscripts for JH at a sale in London.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8354

From:
Robert Hind
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1866-2-24 or earlie
Source of text:
RS:HS 19.157a
Summary:

Asks to visit JH today.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel2568

From:
William Selwyn
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[25 February 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.475
Summary:

Says William Whewell has fallen from his horse and has been injured. Thanks JH for a paper he signed for the R.S.L.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1434

From:
George Gabriel Stokes
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[27 February 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.62
Summary:

Comments against the paper of Ernst Klinkerfüss about observations of dispersed star light [see JH's 1866-2-24].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel2570

From:
William Selwyn
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[27 February 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.476
Summary:

William Whewell has gotten up to walk several times. The left side of his body and face is still 'not quite right.'

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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