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Tyndall0006

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Sarah Tyndall
Date:
June 8th, 1840
Source of text:
MS JT/1/10/3186, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
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Faraday1288

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
William Scoresby
Date:
8 June 1840
Source of text:
WLPS MS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel6058

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Francis Baily
Date:
[8 June 1840]
Source of text:
RS:HS 3.183 (C: RS:HS 25.8.28)
Summary:

Invitation to Hawkhurst. Has plenty of R.S.L. work to keep him from his observational work. Question of a new observatory. Has had letter from Wilhelm Struve regarding the fifteen-inch object glass.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Faraday1290

From:
Augusta Ada Lovelace
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
10 June 1840
Source of text:
RI MS F1 H13
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel2818

From:
Edward Sabine
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[10 June 1840]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.98
Summary:

Encloses some comments of Archibald Smith about C. F. Gauss's General Theory. Believes Smith plans to go on an expedition. Mentions two new magnetometers, the building of a Cape observatory, and the recommendation to the Parliament of Holland to build an observatory.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Faraday1289

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
William Scoresby
Date:
10 and 11 June 1840
Source of text:
WLPS MS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel3131

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
James David Forbes
Date:
[10 June 1840]
Source of text:
St. Andrews 34 (Adraft: TxU:H/L-0158 & -0145.2; Reel 1054 & C: RS:HS 22.44)
Summary:

R.S.L. will deviate from its intellectual purpose whenever it meddles in practical observations. Proper role for R.S.L. is to suggest goals and methods and to reward discoveries. Recommends discontinuing meteorological observations at Somerset House; other stations now provide better data. If R.S.L. insists on establishing a meteorological register, JH suggests one like that of J. F. Daniell.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel9493

From:
William Henry Fitton
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[10 June 1840]
Source of text:
RS:HS 7.238
Summary:

Is grateful for his paper on the solar spectrum. Hopes he will continue his experiments with light so that posterity may benefit, as would have been the case if Smithson Tennant had persisted with his efforts. Regarding some of the geological theories of the times. Hopes JH will come and stay with them. R. I. Murchison is on the continent.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3530

From:
James David Forbes
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[11 June 1840]
Source of text:
RS MM.16.138 (C inc: TxU:H/M-0145.3; Reel 1087)
Summary:

Describes difficulties in attempting to produce good meteorological register and establish national meteorological observatory.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Faraday1291

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Augusta Ada Lovelace
Date:
11 June 1840
Source of text:
Bod MS Somerville dep b.206 MS2-CELE-8
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel2819

From:
Edward Sabine
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[12 June 1840]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.99
Summary:

Thanks JH for reading Mrs. Sabine's work. Discusses the work of C. F. Gauss and his observations regarding the southern hemisphere.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11554

From:
Noel Paymal Lerebours
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[12 June 1840]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.471
Summary:

Has received no reply to his previous letters so probably gave an incorrect address.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Faraday1292

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Thomas Livingstone Mitchell
Date:
13 June 1840
Source of text:
SLNSW ML MS A293, f.85
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel7360

From:
Francis Beaufort
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[15 June 1840]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 4/1.9; Reel 7 & ACC: Hydrographic Office Letter Book
Summary:

No objection to JH publishing soundings of J. C. Ross. FB will send JH detailed records of these. Any letters to Ross must arrive by 18 June for dispatch to Hobart Town. FB has copies of Thomas Maclear's correspondence about magnetic observations.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Faraday1293

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Collins
Date:
15 June 1840
Source of text:
WIHM MS FALF
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel8556

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Unidentified
Date:
[15 June 1840]
Source of text:
BostonPubLib Ms.Eng. 397
Summary:

Has no objection to the recipient's republication of the 'Examples of the Differ. & Integl Calculus by Mr. Peacock,' to which JH contributed.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel9660

From:
Thomas Galloway
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[15 June 1840]
Source of text:
RS:HS 8.10
Summary:

Sending officially the thanks of the Council of the R.A.S. to JH and Caroline Herschel for their gift of the telescope. Hopes JH will convey these thanks to Miss Herschel.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1352

From:
William Henry Fox Talbot
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[15 June 1840]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.302a
Summary:

Sends a few photographs and says he has read JH's recent memoir. Will comment later.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7368

From:
John Sedgwick
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[16 June 1840]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 4/3.22 verso; Reel 7
Summary:

Asks for JH's support at next week's vestry meeting. JH is entitled to six votes.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel13794

From:
Edward Sabine
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[18 June 1840]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0145.4; Reel 1087
Summary:

Physical Committee yesterday amended report by J. D. Forbes and recommended that R.S.L. establish a magnetical and meteorological observatory in vicinity of London.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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