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Herschel3982

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Caroline Lucretia Herschel
Date:
1836-[8]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0581.3.b; Reel 1058
Summary:

Work nearly finished here. Has documented the sixth satellite of Saturn and has seen possibly a seventh.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4501

From:
William Henry Smyth
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1 August 1836]
Source of text:
RS:HS 16.262
Summary:

Plans study of Joseph Bianchi's New Sidereal Catalogue. Sends Bianchi excerpt describing double star of Gamma Virginis.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

RS-MM-000715

From:
John George Children
To:
J G Children
Date:
2 August 1836
Source of text:
MM/12/28, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society
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HENSLOW-305

From:
C. W. Dilke
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
3 August 1836
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 113
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project

RS-MM-000716

From:
John George Children
To:
Peter Mark Roget
Date:
4 August 1836
Source of text:
MM/12/29, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

DCP-LETT-306

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Susan Elizabeth Darwin
Date:
4 Aug [1836]
Source of text:
DAR 223: 37
Summary:

Beagle is again in Brazil because of need to check on "singular disagreements in the Longitudes".

Pleased by Sedgwick’s praise.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel9757

From:
Mario Gemmellaro
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[4 August 1836]
Source of text:
RS:HS 8.104
Summary:

Sees Niccolo Cacciatore. Mt. Etna 'continues its silence.'

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Faraday0932

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Wilson
Date:
6 August 1836
Source of text:
Smithsonian Institution Archives, George P. Merrill Collection circa 1800-1930, and undated, Box 4, Folder 2
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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HENSLOW-1194

From:
J. S. Henslow
To:
John Phillips
Date:
8 August 1836
Source of text:
Oxford University Museum of Natural History Archive Collections, John Phillips Collection 1836/38
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project

Herschel9559

From:
James David Forbes
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[12 August 1836]
Source of text:
RS:HS 7.290
Summary:

Encloses the second part of his paper on heat. Has procured some meteorological readings from Malta. Trusts everything is proceeding well at the Cape. Met G. B. Airy recently at Greenwich, where C. F. Gauss's apparatus is now installed. Mr. Gaubert is dead, also A. M. Ampère and G. C. F. M. R. De Prony.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Faraday0933a

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
John Kearsley Mitchell
Date:
15 August 1836
Source of text:
the Library of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, MSS 2/0241-03. Ser. 3
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday0934

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Thomas Martin
Date:
15 August 1836
Source of text:
Museum of History of Science, Oxford, MS Museum 271
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday0933

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
William Henry Fox Talbot
Date:
15 August 1836
Source of text:
LA MS 36-57
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel6009

From:
Francis Baily
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[16 August 1836]
Source of text:
RS:HS 3.135
Summary:

Further regarding the phenomenon of the shooting stars in America in November. Operation on Frederick Augustus (Duke of Sussex). Is preparing a paper on the recent solar eclipse.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Faraday0935

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Edward William Brayley
Date:
18 August 1836
Source of text:
RI MS F1 B20
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday0936

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
John George Children
Date:
18 August 1836
Source of text:
RS MS RR 1.98
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel12120

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Thomas Maclear
Date:
22] August [1836
Source of text:
RS:HS 21.215
Summary:

A note along with a request from Niccolo Cacciatore for some observations that JH says he cannot make.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Faraday0937

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Lambert-Adolphe-Jacques Quetelet
Date:
23 August 1836
Source of text:
BRAI ARB Archives No 17986 / 989
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel11728

From:
Thomas Maclear
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[24 August 1836]
Source of text:
RS:HS 12.90
Summary:

Sends the list of comet stars; the constants will be computed at the Observatory and will send a copy. Encloses letters from [W. H.] Smyth and others. Lead is being removed from the roof of the lantern.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1175

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Robert Treat Paine
Date:
[26 August 1836]
Source of text:
RS:HS 25.15.3
Summary:

Mostly about periodic meteors [see RP's 1836-5-24], which JH observed in November 1835. JH offers some theoretical explanation for such a phenomenon.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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