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Herschel6527

From:
Edward Joshua Cooper
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
1 September [1839]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.281
Summary:

Would like JH to pay them a visit at Markree to see his 'circle' instrument erected. Hospitality will be rough owing to their lack of furniture. Hopes he is satisfied with his own photographic results.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel12037

From:
Roderick Impey Murchison
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1 September 1839]
Source of text:
RS:HS 12.400
Summary:

The Times has published an attack on the B.A.A.S. and stated that JH has left the B.A.A.S. Would JH write to the Times to contradict this statement. RM is to continue as General Secretary for a further year. [Note from Herschel to see Times of yesterday (3-3-39).]

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Faraday1204

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Jean-Baptiste-André Dumas
Date:
2 September 1839
Source of text:
AS MS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday1203

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
John David Roberton
Date:
2 September 1839
Source of text:
AS MS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday1205

From:
William Wyon
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
3 September 1839
Source of text:
RI MS F1 I014
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel2779

From:
Edward Sabine
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[4 September 1839]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.59
Summary:

Announces Charles Riddell's departure for Canada and his own trip schedule in Germany. Has read JH's report. Informs JH that ES has been made a member of the Committee. Glad that [Vernon] Harcourt's speech covered magnetic observatories. Eager to promote the public image of the fixed observatories. The translation committee was reappointed and includes JH, but ES will spare JH any work.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Faraday1206

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
James Cosmo Melvill
Date:
5 September 1839
Source of text:
India Office Library and Records MS L/MIL/5/413 Collection 313, f.305-7
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday1207

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Jean-Baptiste-André Dumas
Date:
5 September 1839
Source of text:
AS MS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel1066

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
[Mr. Smith?]
Date:
[5 September 1839]
Source of text:
RS:HS 25.5.17
Summary:

Is very insistent that JH receive clear title to Collingwood, with no encumbrances.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4603

From:
Giovanni Santini
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[6 September 1839]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.346
Summary:

Makes micrometer observations for a star catalogue to be published in 1840 for the University of Padua. Padua Observatory offers meridian circle to Vienna Observatory. Searches for comets.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11020

From:
Richard Jones
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[6 September 1839]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.362
Summary:

Whewell and RJ plan to visit South Wales and would like to stop at Slough en route.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

RS-MM-000638

From:
John Frederick William Herschel
To:
J F W Herschel
Date:
7 September 1839
Source of text:
MM/11/142, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

Herschel1349

From:
William Henry Fox Talbot
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[8 September 1839]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.296
Summary:

Sends some samples of photography made with a solar microscope, and comments briefly on the Daguerreotype.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel2780

From:
Edward Sabine
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
9 September [1839]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.60
Summary:

Recommends that a fellow scientist be properly cited in the R.S.L. report for his method of measuring the depth of the ocean. Encloses observations.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel13555

From:
[Humphrey] Lloyd
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[10 September 1839]
Source of text:
TxU:H/MW-0246.6; Reel 15
Summary:

Cannot accept JH's invitation to dinner. HL and Edward Sabine depart tomorrow for [Batind?].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Faraday1207a

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
William Cock
Date:
10 September 1839
Source of text:
GCA MS John Cowie Collection, 705c
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel8824

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Henry Fox Talbot
Date:
[10 September 1839]
Source of text:
Science Museum Talbt 1/21 (ACCS: RS:HS 25.5.18 & C: TxU:H/L-0478; Reel 1055)
Summary:

Has succeeded in producing a 'photograph on glass.' Describes process and also JH's experiment photographing spectra.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1348

From:
William Henry Fox Talbot
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[12 September 1839]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.297
Summary:

Advises JH not to publish any new processes in photography as there are patent problems. Comments on the Daguerreotype, and on the difficulty of preserving images in some circumstances.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel5509

From:
Francis Beaufort
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
13 September [1839]
Source of text:
RS:HS 3.409
Summary:

Enclosing letters from Thomas Maclear so that he may see all he says about his meteorites. Will keep the meteorite until he tells him what to do with it.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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HENSLOW-1133

From:
J. E. Bowman
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
14 September 1839
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society Library The Scientists Collection I 509.L56
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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