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Herschel3390

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Marc Seguin
Date:
[1861-7 or later]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.185
Summary:

Thanks for MS's works, communicated through [Picot] Tremblay. Worries that JH has insufficient time and lags behind in the physical sciences. Comments on ideas put forward in 1824 by JH and discussed by MS. Has found MS's name connected with suspension bridge over Rhone River.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8933

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
The London Review
Date:
[6 July 1861]
Source of text:
London Review, 3 (July 13, 1861), 46-7
Summary:

Reports JH's observations of a comet [Comet II Tebbutt ?] first seen from England ca. 29 June 1861. Remarks that it 'far exceeded in brightness any comet I have before observed.'

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6625

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Elizabeth Colling
Date:
[12 July 1861]
Source of text:
RS:HS 23.333
Summary:

Sends a work on physical geography in return for a receipt of some lines of poetry.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7134

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Augustus De Morgan
Date:
[14 July 1861]
Source of text:
RS:HS 23.334
Summary:

Raised from his lethargy by the appearance of the comet; comments on the nature of the sun; can AD recommend a book on surveying for JH's son John.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Tyndall1796

From:
John Frederick William Herschel
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
July 21 1861
Source of text:
MS JT/1/H/94; MS JT/1/TYP/2/505-6, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Herschel3396

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
[21 July 1861]
Source of text:
RS:HS 23.335 (ACCS: RS:HS 17.388a; C: RI 505-6)
Summary:

Thanks for and comments on paper and lectures on 'diathermancy &c' of gases, scientific teaching, and solar chemistry. Regrets that JT mentioned all names connected with light research except JH's. Remarks on absorption of light, molecular vibrations.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1560

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
S[amuel] P[ickworth] Woodward
Date:
[23 July 1861]
Source of text:
BL Aaa 42580.137
Summary:

Thanks SW for a copy of the reviews of JH's Meteorology and Physical Geography. Comments on related matters such as importing English birds into Australia, observations made by Alexander von Humboldt, and catching specimens behind a sailing ship.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Faraday4029

From:
John Frederick William Herschel
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
24 July 1861
Source of text:
IET MS SC 2
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel9451

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
[24 July 1861]
Source of text:
RS:HS 23.336
Summary:

More on lacunae in JH's set of MF's writings [see JH's 1838-10-3].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8790

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Stanley Jevons
Date:
[30 July 1861]
Source of text:
John Rylands University Library of Manchester (C: RS:HS 23.337)
Summary:

Thanks WJ for his papers on clouds [see WJ's 1861-7-21]. JH had not seen these, but praises their contents.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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