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Herschel11760

From:
Thomas Maclear
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[10 June 1839]
Source of text:
RS:HS 12.119
Summary:

Mr. Zahn and John Truter in search of more meteorite specimens. Truter obtains a specimen near site of impact.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

RS-MM-000635

From:
John Frederick William Herschel
To:
J F W Herschel
Date:
11 June 1839
Source of text:
MM/11/139, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society
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Faraday1181

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Lambert-Adolphe-Jacques Quetelet
Date:
11 June 1839
Source of text:
BRAI ARB Archives No 17986 / 989
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

DCP-LETT-519

From:
Richard Owen
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 June 1839
Source of text:
DAR 204: 183
Summary:

Thanks CD effusively [for Journal of researches] – "the most delightful book in my collection".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-520

From:
William Henry Fitton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 June 1839
Source of text:
DAR 204: 178
Summary:

Thanks CD for Journal of researches. Praises its "want of pretension"; "the Geology seems … to be excellent – and a good part of it new".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel14763

From:
James Cosmo Melvill
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[15 June 1839]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0951; Reel 1083
Summary:

Chairman of H.E.I.C. granted permission for Major [Tenis] to delay departure to India for one month in order to become better acquainted with instruments to be used in magnetic observatories there.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-521

From:
William Lonsdale
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 June 1839
Source of text:
DAR 204: 182
Summary:

Acknowledges Journal of researches.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel11761

From:
Thomas Maclear
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[15 June 1839]
Source of text:
RS:HS 12.120
Summary:

Sends another meteorite specimen. Mr. Zahn sends group to Bokkerveld to seek more specimens. John Truter describes specimens in possession.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8631

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Julia Margaret Cameron
Date:
[16 June 1839]
Source of text:
Getty Center
Summary:

Thanks for gifts sent to JH's children. Gives information on various persons including John Wrottesley and Sir Edward Ryan.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10620

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Luke Howard
Date:
[16 June 1839]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.1 & 22.16
Summary:

LH's meteorological circular register was laid before the Meteorological Committee, which considers it worthy of notice. Comments on this, and would like to discuss the matter further.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Faraday1182

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Thomas Phillipps
Date:
17 June 1839
Source of text:
Bod MS Phillipps-Robinson c.468, f.1
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel8691

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Carl Friedrich Gauss
Date:
[17 June 1839]
Source of text:
NSUB Cod.Ms.Gauss 99 (C: RS:HS 22.17)
Summary:

Comments on CG's paper on the south magnetic pole, and on British efforts now underway to make magnetic observations.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10367

From:
William Henry Harvey
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[17 June 1839]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.247
Summary:

Must have received a long rambling letter written in February; hopes he will ignore it as he was suffering from a fever at the time. Returned on leave of absence for 12 months. Has introduced J. A. Wahlberg to Col. John Bell. P. H. Polemann died in April.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8598

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Johann Franz Encke
Date:
[18 June 1839]
Source of text:
AdWDDR Encke 49
Summary:

Asks if JE or the Academy of Sciences wish to participate in the British plan to make worldwide magnetic observations.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4690

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[19 June 1839]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.79
Summary:

Has sent to JH papers relating to London University. Hopes JH will accept a senatorship.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8520

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
D. François J. Arago
Date:
[19 June 1839]
Source of text:
Académie des sciences (Paris)
Summary:

Requests FA's assistance in efforts toward establishing magnetic observatories. Especially recommends an observatory at Algiers. Communication from the R.S.L. will arrive shortly. Comments on biography of William Herschel written by J. B. J. Fourier.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8557

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Cranch Bond
Date:
[19 June 1839]
Source of text:
BostonPubLib Ms.Eng. 190 (1)
Summary:

Invites WB to participate in making magnetic observations. Is sending relevant materials to WB.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-522

From:
Robert FitzRoy
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 June [1839]
Source of text:
DAR 204: 147
Summary:

Robert Brown has mistreated Capt. P. P. King by holding back for nine years the plants collected on King’s voyage of the Adventure and Beagle.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel2762

From:
Edward Sabine
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[21 June 1839]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.42
Summary:

Dublin University is available on 2 July for instruction of the officers to be employed in the magnetic observatories. Suggests a note be sent to the R.S.L. stating that the changes in instrumentation are only slight modifications.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Faraday1183

From:
Moritz Hermann Jacobi
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
21 June 1839
Source of text:
Jacobi (1839a)
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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