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Herschel238

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[25 September 1848]
Source of text:
RGO 6.245.122
Summary:

Comments about the proposed Venus parallax expedition and their method of measurement [see JH's 1848-9-24].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel37

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[25 September 1848]
Source of text:
RGO 6.370.39
Summary:

Sends comments on the pages of JH's account of the moon's motions [see JH's 1848-9-25].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4815

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[25 September 1848]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.205
Summary:

Concerning the eighth satellite. Observations on U. J. J. Leverrier's paper.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel9

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[25 September 1848]
Source of text:
RGO 6.159.171
Summary:

Comments on observational quality obtainable with the great telescope of William Parsons [Earl of Rosse].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

SOMERVILLE402

From:
John Lindley
To:
William Somerville
Date:
25 Sep 1848
Source of text:
MSL 4 / 110, Dep. c. 371, Bod, MS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse

Herschel36

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[25 September 1848]
Source of text:
RGO 6.370.36
Summary:

JH has revised his account of the moon's motions given in JH's Treatise Astr. in preparation for JH's Outlines Astr.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

RS-MM-001686

From:
George Peacock
To:
[John Dunn Gardner]
Date:
26 September 1848
Source of text:
MM/22/23, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

Herschel6775

From:
William Rutter Dawes
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[26 September 1848]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.92
Summary:

Has experienced bad weather since the discovery of Saturn's 8th satellite. William Lassell proposes to call it Hyperion. Wishes Starfield Observatory was situated in a clearer atmosphere.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4816

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[28 September 1848]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.206
Summary:

Queries regarding the perturbation sheets.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Faraday2108

From:
Julius Plücker
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
28 September 1848
Source of text:
IEE MS SC 2
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
Text Online

Faraday2107

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Henry Thomas De La Beche
Date:
28 September 1848
Source of text:
National Museum of Wales
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
Text Online

KEMP88

From:
Robert Chambers
To:
William Kemp
Date:
29 Sept 1848
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 10252/68)
Summary:

RC’s rebuttal of claims that he had passed over WK’s part in the researches (Athenaeum, 23 September 1848, pp. 958–9).

Contributor:
Ruth Cramond

DCP-LETT-1200A

From:
William Thompson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Sept 1848
Source of text:
Living Cirripedia (1854): 272–3
Summary:

Concerning the measurements of Balanus specimens with respect to growth.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel9169

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Whewell
Date:
[30 September 1848]
Source of text:
TC, Camb. Add. Ms.a.20775 (C: RS:HS 23.38)
Summary:

Discusses revisions in WW's and Frederick Beechey's papers in JH's Admiralty Manual. Also comments on drafting Outlines Astr., the controversy over the discovery of Neptune, and William Lassell's discovery of a new Saturnian satellite.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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