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Tyndall0364

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Thomas Archer Hirst
Date:
25 Oct 48
Source of text:
MS JT/1/T/522, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Herschel4821

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[25 October 1848]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.210 (C: RS:HS 23.44 & C: RGO 6.370.75)
Summary:

Further regarding his dispute with Isaac Newton's theory on the moon.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7599

From:
Christian August Friedrich Peters
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[26 October 1848]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 10/5.116; Reel 9
Summary:

Thanks for the gift of a copy of JH's Cape Results.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel125

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[26 October 1848]
Source of text:
RGO 6.675.581
Summary:

Will now work with S. J. A. Compton, the President of the R.S.L., to try to get fair treatment for another applicant for the Admiralty money [see GA's 1848-9-25].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel41

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[26 October 1848]
Source of text:
RGO 6.370.77
Summary:

Further clarification to the moon's motions [see JH's 1848-10-25].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

JHC46

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Frances Harriet Hooker (nee Henslow)
Date:
26 October 1848
Source of text:
JDH/1/10 f.118-119, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

Comments on scarcity of letters from home, one through Southampton, two through Marseilles. JDH details plans to travel through snowy mountains of Nepal & Sikkim despite Rajah's objections. From Darjeeling JDH will go west with Ghurkas to Kinchin Gunga [Kangchenjunga] & the Tibetan Passes. Describes in detail the men, provisions & instruments he will take with him. Has been assisted with preparations & provisions by: Major Crommelin, [Brian Houghton] Hodgson [BHH], the Campbells, the Müllers, Henslow, Mr Reeks of Geological Survey & Assistant Surveyor General Captain Thuillier. Members of expedition party include: Bhotea translator named Adok; trained Lepcha plant collectors; a shooter & stuffer; & Havildar named Nimbo who is the leader of the porters & in charge of JDH's money. JDH has sufficient funds remaining with Vicar & Co. JDH sending home fungi drawings with zoological tracts from BHH to Darwin. Too wet to send plants. Comments on Forbes getting married.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

Herschel4823

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[27 October 1848]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.212 & 23.45
Summary:

Regarding the moon's orbit.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3469

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Spencer J. A. Compton
Date:
[27 October 1848]
Source of text:
RS Sa.659
Summary:

Regrets Admiralty's giving whole of grant to [Charles] Brooke, when [Francis] Ronalds's photographic processes seem at least as satisfactory. Will join SC in supporting Ronalds's claims.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3641

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Rowan Hamilton
Date:
[27 October 1848]
Source of text:
TCD 1493:472
Summary:

Is glad that WH is trying in his Lectures on Quaternions to clarify principles of quaternions. Suggests that WH define highly abstract terms.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel126

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[28 October 1848]
Source of text:
RGO 6.675.582
Summary:

Further clarification to JH's 1848-10-26.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel42

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[28 October 1848]
Source of text:
RGO 6.370.79
Summary:

Thanks GA for the time and trouble he took in the drawn-out debate over the moon's motions [see 1848-9-25 to 1848-10-26].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

JHC1516

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Brian Houghton Hodgson
Date:
28 October 1848
Source of text:
JDH/1/12 f.1-2, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project
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HENSLOW-245

From:
J. S. Henslow
To:
Dawson Turner
Date:
29 October 1848
Source of text:
Trinity College Cambridge Dawson Turner Correspondence O.14.45, Letter 132
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project

JHC1517

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Brian Houghton Hodgson
Date:
29-10-[1848]
Source of text:
JDH/1/12 f.3-4, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

Herschel127

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[30 October 1848]
Source of text:
RGO 6.675.583
Summary:

Sends GA's correspondence on the subject of the Admiralty grant, with further explanatory comments [see JH's 1848-10-28].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4824

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[30 October 1848]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.213 (C: RGO 6.370.80)
Summary:

Regarding the annual equation of the moon's orbit.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10831

From:
John Herapath
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[31 October 1848]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.183
Summary:

On the deviation from the perpendicular of falling bodies.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

JHC1518

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Brian Houghton Hodgson
Date:
31-10-[1848]
Source of text:
JDH/1/12 f.5-8, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project
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