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Herschel11631

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Sir Charles Lyell
Date:
[1 October 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.168
Summary:

Comments on the relationship between the plane of the earth's orbit and the obliquity of the ecliptic.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel12151

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
D[aniel] Mackintosh
Date:
[2 October 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.8 & 24.169
Summary:

Agrees that a large part of the hills and valleys are due to tidal action. Comments further on this, especially relating to parts of France. The Hawkhurst lectures have ceased and are not likely to be resumed.

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John Herschel Project

Herschel6634

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Elizabeth Colling
Date:
[4 October 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.170
Summary:

Thanks for EC's poetry; comments on other translators of Homer, and on mythical beasts.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7196

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Augustus De Morgan
Date:
[9 October 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.171
Summary:

Complains about Arabic star names; comments on squabble between Charles Babbage and James South.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1512

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Sir Charles Lyell
Date:
[13 October 1866]
Source of text:
APS B.D25.L.16 (C: RS:HS 24.172)
Summary:

Comments on some of CL's writings; further argues that a canal at Suez and/or Darien would have a major effect on European climate due to the effect of ocean currents coming through such canals.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1513

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Sir Charles Lyell
Date:
[20 October 1866]
Source of text:
APS B.D25.L.17 (C: RS:HS 24.173)
Summary:

Some minor suggestions regarding CL's proofs [see CL's 1866-10-19].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel895

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
John Herschel (son)
Date:
5 November [1866]
Source of text:
JHS 5.15
Summary:

Worried by not having heard from son John, especially as there is cholera in India; JH sends news of the family, especially of how bright the younger girls are; also comments on world events and about books sent to John.

Contributor:
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Herschel4998

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
F. W. A. Argelander
Date:
[6 November 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.376 & 24.174
Summary:

Regarding his observations. Sending a copy of his original observations. Regarding the new variable star [T Coronae].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8956

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
the British Meteorological Society
Date:
[14 November 1866]
Source of text:
Proceedings of the British Meteorological Society, 3 (1867), 273-5
Summary:

Presents in some detail and with an illustration his observations of the meteor shower 13-14 Nov. 1866.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel12587

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
D[aniel] Mackintosh
Date:
[15 November 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.175
Summary:

Has been asked to comment on the writings of Hermann von Schlagintweit, but JH has not yet had time to read them carefully and so cannot comment.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8574

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
[India Office]
Date:
[16 November 1866]
Source of text:
BostonPubLib Ms.Eng.231(1)
Summary:

Corrects earlier statement that JH has not received vol. 4 of the study of India written by [Robert and Hermann] Schlagentweit

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11893

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
John F. McLennan
Date:
[18 November 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 12.255 & 24.176
Summary:

Regarding the inventor of the compensation bars. Would not attribute their invention to Thomas Drummond in the light of J. E. Portlock's evidence. Thanks for the paper on ancient Greek kinship.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1118

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Gabriel Stokes
Date:
[19 November 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 25.10.15
Summary:

Carefully describes how to pack actinometers being shipped to India.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel9693

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Robert A. T. Gascoyne-Cecil
Date:
[26 November 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.177
Summary:

Comments on a multi-volume work on India by the Schlaginweits [Hermann and Robert], suggesting that the work contains much extraneous computation and detail and should be compressed. Questions whether further publication on the present scale is justified.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel12763

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
[Drummond's Bank]
Date:
[28 November 1866]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0182.1; Reel 1054
Summary:

Grants permission for JH's son John to remove one bundle of papers from JH's storage box.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1514

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Sir Charles Lyell
Date:
[4 December 1866]
Source of text:
APS B.D25.L.18 (C: RS:HS 24.178)
Summary:

Appreciates the receipt of volume one of the tenth edition of CL's Principles of Geology.

Contributor:
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Herschel3473

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Edward Sabine
Date:
[5 December 1866]
Source of text:
RS Sa.675 (C RS:HS 15.283 & RS:HS 24.179)
Summary:

Maintains that a first class refractor is not needed at Masouri in India [see ES's 1866-9-4]. No special characteristics there justify the great expense of such a project.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1602

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Edward Sabine
Date:
[8 December 1866]
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library 7656/RS554 (ACCS: TxU:H/L-0378; Reel 1054
Summary:

In response to ES's 1866-12-6, JH sees no benefit in a great equatorial telescope in India being an itinerant instrument.

Contributor:
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Herschel12808

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George William Kitchin
Date:
[9 December 1866]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0213; Reel 1054
Summary:

Needs time to consider GK's request. What connection is expected between [Clarendon] Press and each author, or among all authors in GK's proposed series?

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6635

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Elizabeth Colling
Date:
[10 December 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.180
Summary:

On the 'Great Phenomenon' of 13 and 14 Nov. [meteor shower]; JH appears to believe that there is an annular ring of very minute planets circling the sun.

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