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Herschel7635

From:
John Simson
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1 November 1848]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 10/6.2; Reel 9
Summary:

Encloses letter received today from Mannheim. [JH note on verso] Enclosed letter of 26 Dec. 1847 was from [J. C.] Schröder to John Simson. Gratitude for receipt of [Cape Results]. F. B. G. Nicolai died last year. Schröder was appointed provisional director of Mannheim Observatory.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6516

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Spencer J. A. Compton
Date:
[1 November 1848]
Source of text:
RS:HS 23.46
Summary:

Comments unfavorably on Admiralty's attitude to matters concerning magnetic observations.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

JHC1519

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Brian Houghton Hodgson
Date:
1 November 1848
Source of text:
JDH/1/12 f.9-18, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

Herschel128

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[2 November 1848]
Source of text:
RGO 6.675.585
Summary:

A note to accompany further copies of correspondence to the Admiralty [see GA's 1848-10-30].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Faraday2116

From:
Brough George Maltby
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
4 November 1848
Source of text:
GL MS 30108/1/46
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday2117

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Brough George Maltby
Date:
7 November 1848
Source of text:
GL MS 30108/1/46
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday2118

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
William Whewell
Date:
7 November 1848
Source of text:
TCC MS O.15.49, f.20
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel10775

From:
Robert Hunt
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[7 November 1848]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.128
Summary:

Is grateful for JH's request to add his name as a subscriber to his book. Sends a volume entitled the Poetry of Science for JH's acceptance.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6983

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Augustus De Morgan
Date:
[7 November 1848]
Source of text:
RS:HS 23.47
Summary:

About a number of new associate members of the R.A.S.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4222

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Henry Smyth
Date:
[7 November 1848]
Source of text:
RS:HS 23.48
Summary:

Will miss R.A.S. meeting; asks WS to take chair. William Lassell announces discovery of Hyperion; believes he may have also observed an eighth satellite of Saturn.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7561

From:
Roderick Impey Murchison
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[8 November 1848]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 10/5.78; Reel 9
Summary:

Returned from Continent in September, discovered JH's gift of JH's Cape Results. Grateful for this memento of friendship. Hopes JH received memoirs from [Giovanni] Plana, which RM sent from Turin. Notes on transition from Cretaceous to Miocene in Alps and Apennines.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1856

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
[Robert Hunt]
Date:
[8 November 1848]
Source of text:
WT 68037.9
Summary:

Thanks RH for a copy of RH's Poetry of Science, and comments on an experiment in growing seeds under glass and in darkness.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel2011

From:
George R. Porter
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[9 November 1848]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.43
Summary:

States he has complied with Lord Auckland's and JH's wishes on the statistical section of the Admiralty Manual but fears such restrictions leave it little more than 'dry bones.'

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Faraday2120

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Charles Babbage
Date:
9 November 1848
Source of text:
BL add MS 37194, f.212
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday2119

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
9 November 1848
Source of text:
RGO 6/401, f.360
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday2121

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
William Robert Grove
Date:
9 November 1848
Source of text:
RI MS G F24
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel10776

From:
Robert Hunt
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[9 November 1848]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.129
Summary:

Is pleased he approves of his style. Regarding the experiments on the germination of seeds. His own son is progressing satisfactorily.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

JHC1520

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Brian Houghton Hodgson
Date:
9-11-[1848]
Source of text:
JDH/1/12 f.19-34, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available. This letter was started on the 9th November but was not completed and sent until the 18 November 1848

Contributor:
Hooker Project

Herschel7953

From:
Charles Wheatstone
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[10 November 1848]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.154
Summary:

R.S.L. Physical Committee considering giving Copley medal to W. E. Weber for work in electromagnetism. Does JH concur? Other candidates are F. E. Neumann or A.L. Cauchy in physical optics, and Michael Faraday on condensation of gases. Rumford medal was awarded to H. V. Regnault for work on steam engine.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Tyndall0365

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Thomas Archer Hirst
Date:
Sat. Nov. 11. 1848
Source of text:
MS JT/1/HTYP/12-14; MS JT/1/T/516, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
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