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Herschel12049

From:
Roderick Impey Murchison
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[25 August 1846]
Source of text:
RS:HS 12.414
Summary:

Received JH's letter without the enclosure from C. P. Schönbein, but has now received a letter from Schönbein. Has advised him to come to the Southampton meeting. Has written his discourse and would welcome a paragraph from JH on physical science and on some of the foreigners expected at the meeting. What can he say about Carlo Matteucci? Had letter from William Whewell, who wishes to meet H. C. Oersted.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-992

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Mallet
Date:
26 Aug [1846]
Source of text:
Smithsonian Libraries and Archives (Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology MSS 405 A. Gift of the Burndy Library)
Summary:

Thanks RM for "Dynamics of earthquakes" [Trans. R. Irish Acad. 21 (1848): 50–106]. It has cleared up his ideas on undulations. Now wishes he had said nothing about them in Journal of researches. Sends his paper ["Certain volcanic phenomena in S. America", Collected papers 1: 53–86]. Wishes RM would investigate Chile. Speculates whether earthquakes coincide with moon or tides.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Faraday1907

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
William Buchanan
Date:
26 August 1846
Source of text:
J.M. and Jean Ferguson
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel11236

From:
William Lassell
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[26 August 1846]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.127
Summary:

Has seen the seventh satellite of Saturn. Encloses diagrams and comments on them.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11944

From:
Carlo Matteucci
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
27 August [1846]
Source of text:
RS:HS 12.306
Summary:

Happy to hear that JH is to preside over the Physical and Mathematical Section. Will present Miss Robina Young to Lady Herschel before leaving for Southampton.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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HENSLOW-237

From:
J. S. Henslow
To:
William Whewell
Date:
28 August 1846
Source of text:
Trinity College Cambridge Whewell O.15.48: 37
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project

Herschel11602

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Lassell
Date:
[28 August 1846]
Source of text:
RS:HS 22.280
Summary:

Comments on WL's observation of the seventh satellite of Saturn as noted in WL's 1846-8-26.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11237

From:
William Lassell
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[28 August 1846]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.128
Summary:

Was in error when in his last letter he stated he had seen the seventh satellite of Saturn; he has yet to see it.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel2327

From:
Edward Sabine
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[29 August 1846]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.198
Summary:

Discusses cotton that allegedly gives equal projectile with less recoil than gunpowder. May have important implications for breech loading rifle.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel12050

From:
Roderick Impey Murchison
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[30 August 1846]
Source of text:
RS:HS 12.415
Summary:

Thanks for his letter and C. F. Schönbein's. Will go on board the Excellent via rail to Gosport. Encloses what he has written on Michael Faraday for JH's amendments. Regarding the dinners at the meeting.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1940

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Unidentified
Date:
[30 August 1846]
Source of text:
DMC 695A.885.19
Summary:

Thanks [?] for the honor of having her book on astronomy dedicated to JH.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Faraday1908

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Jacob Herbert
Date:
31 August 1846
Source of text:
GL MS 30108A/1, p.207
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel6755

From:
William Rutter Dawes
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[31 August 1846]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.73
Summary:

Would like details of the approximate position of the planet [Neptune]. Has heard nothing about his equatorial. Would like it to pass through the Customs unopened to save possible damage.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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