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Herschel1770

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1 December 1845]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0631.11
Summary:

Has requested Admiralty funding for the proposed telescope [see GA's 1845-11-2]; GA does not like the mounting the telescope is to be given; has gathered, from Otto Struve, that it does not work well at Pulkowa Observatory.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel872

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Margaret Brodie Herschel
Date:
1845-12
Source of text:
JHS 4.24
Summary:

Writes to ask MH's advice about ordering flowers for planting.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel873

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Margaret Brodie Herschel
Date:
1845-12
Source of text:
JHS 4.25
Summary:

A little news, including some comments about JH's health.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

JHC1258

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
George Bentham
Date:
?-12-1845
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.20, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

DCP-LETT-932

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Brettingham Sowerby
Date:
[1 Dec 1845]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Cannot find two specimens of S. American fossil shells.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Faraday1794

From:
William Daniel Conybeare
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
1 December 1845
Source of text:
IEE MS SC 2
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel1771

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[3 December 1845]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0631.12
Summary:

Is returning JH's report on William Simms's object glass [see GA's 1845-10-14]; GA reiterates Otto Struve's statement about the mounting at Pulkowa Observatory [see GA's 1845-12-1].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-933

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Brettingham Sowerby
Date:
[3 Dec 1845]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Suggests location of lost shell specimens.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel5624

From:
William Radcliffe Birt
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[3 December 1845]
Source of text:
RS:HS 4.113
Summary:

The great atmospheric wave has returned; observations on this.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Faraday1795

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Arthur-Auguste De La Rive
Date:
4 December 1845
Source of text:
BPUG MS 2316, f.60-1
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday1796

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Charles Wheatstone
Date:
5 December 1845
Source of text:
Bence Jones (1870a), 2: 214
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel14770

From:
William A. Baillie-Hamilton
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[6 December 1845]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0996.1; Reel 1083
Summary:

Has requested of Admiralty £485 for equatorial telescope, from Merz in Munich, for Cape of Good Hope Observatory. Ask JH to estimate cost for 'next year's Estimates.'

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel2317

From:
Edward Sabine
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[8 December 1845]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.188
Summary:

Elected Foreign Secretary of R.S.L. Discusses a shipment of books from Russia and a shipment of releases for fellows, the public, and the R.S.L. library.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4772

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[8 December 1845]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.162 (C: RGO 6.193.233)
Summary:

Passing on information received from a O. M. Mitchel[l] of Cincinnati regarding Antares, and the surface of the sun.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4773

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[8 December 1845]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.162a
Summary:

A note enclosing a copy of a letter from the Admiralty, on which JH is requested to comment.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Faraday1797

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
William Whewell
Date:
8 December 1845
Source of text:
TCC MS O.15.49, f.17
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel8315

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
[William Radcliffe Birt]
Date:
[8 December 1845]
Source of text:
RS:HS 19.121
Summary:

JH suffering chest pains. Delighted that WB again observed 'great symmetrical wave.' Sun's effect on atmosphere is like the wake of 'Leviathan going round & round in a confined ... harbour.'

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4027

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Caroline Lucretia Herschel
Date:
[8 December 1845]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0590.13; Reel 1058
Summary:

George Airy, George Peacock, and [Adam] Sedgwick are visiting Collingwood for Christmas. Airy writes JH that an American astronomer named [Ormsby] 'Mitchell' has seen Antares double. JH reports that William Lassell and W. R. Dawes have observed the 7th Saturnian satellite and also another of the six satellites of the 'Georgium Sidus' [Uranus]. JH is confident that his Cape Results will go to the presses in January.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel402

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[9 December 1845]
Source of text:
RGO 6.193.234
Summary:

Is skeptical of the American observations [see GA's 1845-12-8], and reports other observations communicated to JH.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-934

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Brettingham Sowerby
Date:
[9? Dec 1845]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Discusses GBS’s completion of his descriptions of fossil shells for the appendix to South America.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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