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Herschel14424

From:
Edward Sabine
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[2 July 1859]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0526.5; Reel 1093
Summary:

A. D. Bache reports that self-recording instruments are installed at Washington observatory and ready to begin observations. ES is making field observations to confirm changes in magnetic lines in England since ES's 1837 survey. [JH annotation: Summary of Bache's letter. Joint survey by Smithsonian Institution and U.S. Coast Survey will begin when Bache receives full instructions from Sabine.]

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7111

From:
Augustus De Morgan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[12 July 1859]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.330
Summary:

Is suffering from the heat. Was grateful for his information on Galileo's handwriting. Outlines the facts of the recent controversy on a reputed manuscript of Galileo. Will be moving house shortly.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7112

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Augustus De Morgan
Date:
[12 July 1859]
Source of text:
RS:HS 23.265
Summary:

Comments on decimal coinage, the weather, and politics.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel14425

From:
Edward Sabine
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[13 July 1859]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0526.6; Reel 1093
Summary:

Does JH wish to alter ES's reply to A. D. Bache? Origins of names for American rivers. Hopes JH is well enough to accept the invitation of Lord Aberdeen [G. Hamilton-Gordon].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8640

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Samuel Austin Allibone
Date:
[16 July 1859]
Source of text:
Huntington Library
Summary:

Has not yet received SA's Dictionary of English Literature, which SA indicated he was sending.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel9346

From:
Johann Franz Encke
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[17 July 1859]
Source of text:
RS:HS 7.100
Summary:

Sends some invitations to participate in an Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel2385

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Edward Sabine
Date:
[17 July 1859]
Source of text:
RS:HS 23.266
Summary:

Discusses desirability of middle latitude stations in North America. Impressed by the work of [A. D.] Bache.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6566

From:
William Crookes
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[20 July 1859]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.309
Summary:

Thanks for his interesting communication to the Photographic News and for the spectra. Gives details of his own photographic experiments with Iodide of silver.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4241

From:
Woodbine Parish
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[20 July 1859]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.135
Summary:

Sends newspaper article about the meteor fall in Oswego County. Compares the account to a meteorite that fell in the Santiago Plains of Chile. Discusses authenticity of suspected meteorite specimens.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6622

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Elizabeth Colling
Date:
[24 July 1859]
Source of text:
RS:HS 23.267
Summary:

Note accompanying something being discussed in the music world.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1533

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Unidentified
Date:
[24 July 1859]
Source of text:
APS B.H435p.18
Summary:

Sees no need for changes to the plates for Outlines Astr.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel9321

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Empson
Date:
27 July [1859]
Source of text:
RS:HS 7.75
Summary:

Thanks for sending the note of A. J. Ellis. Comments on this and his own apparent mistake. Pleased to hear that the invalid is progressing. Their potato crop has an attack of the blight.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel14426

From:
Edward Sabine
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[28 July 1859]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0526.7; Reel 1093
Summary:

Replied to J. A. da Silva that Kew Observatory would gladly train Portuguese observers and superintend manufacture of instruments, but that ES could not speak for English government. [JH annotation: Summary of letter from da Silva, director of meteorological observatory in Lisbon, requesting training for Portuguese observers at Kew, British influence on Portuguese government to join magnetic survey, and advice on instruments.]

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6567

From:
William Crookes
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[30 July 1859]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.310
Summary:

His Daguerreotype arrived safely. Hopes to get some better photographs of the spectra before the end of the summer. Sees why their results differ.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11947

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Matthew Fontaine Maury
Date:
[31 July 1859]
Source of text:
RS:HS 12.309 & 23.268
Summary:

Acknowledges the proof sheets of the new edition of the Physical Geography of the Sea. Will read them with the attention they deserve. Does not at present agree with the theories of MM.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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