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From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
John R. Hind
Date:
[2 November 1861]
Source of text:
RS:HS 23.352
Summary:

About the naming of asteroids.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Warren de La Rue
Date:
[7 November 1861]
Source of text:
RS:HS 23.346
Summary:

Thanks for pictures of Mars; speculates on the atmospheres of some planets.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
John Frederick William Herschel
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Nov 10/61
Source of text:
MS JT/1/H/95; MS JT/1/TYP/2/508, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
[10 November 1861]
Source of text:
RS:HS 23.347 (C: RI 508)
Summary:

Reply to JT's 'Remarks on Radiation and Absorption.' Calls non-absorption of air and vapor key to understanding meteorological phenomena. Remarks on 'radiant heat' from moon.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
John Frederick William Herschel
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Nov 22/61.
Source of text:
MS JT/1/H/96; MS JT/1/TYP/2/512-513; HS 23.348, RI; RS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
[22 November 1861]
Source of text:
RS:HS 23.348 (C: RI 512-13)
Summary:

Does not believe surface of moon can radiate cold; perhaps new moon can. Explains this geometrically.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Selwyn
Date:
[22 November 1861]
Source of text:
RS:HS 23.349
Summary:

Has no suggestions to improve photographs. Wants to determine whether the degradation of light from center to edge of sun is 'real.' Does not think sun's size affects focus.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
John Frederick William Herschel
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Nov. 24/61
Source of text:
MS JT/1/H/97, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
[24 November 1861]
Source of text:
RS:HS 23.350 (C: RI 515)
Summary:

Finds JT's work on thermotics 'highly interesting,' although criticizes measurements of 'tenuity' of vapor, and explanation of scattering of sunlight and formation of corona around moon during eclipse.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Gabriel Auguste Daubrée
Date:
[28 November 1861]
Source of text:
RS:HS 23.351
Summary:

Thanks GD for memoir on the subject of geological transformations.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project