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Herschel568

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[28 April 1864]
Source of text:
RGO 6.358.280
Summary:

Will miss yet another meeting of the Standards Committee due to illness [bronchitis]; W. H. Miller has brought JH up to date on the activity of the committee, and JH agrees with what is being done.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3388

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Edward Sabine
Date:
[29 April 1864]
Source of text:
RS Sa.671
Summary:

Had hoped to attend ES's soiree, but has influenza. Praises ES's report on Mr. McClintock's magnetic observations at Port Barrow.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10640

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Frederick Howlett
Date:
[30 April 1864]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.42
Summary:

More on the construction of a good optical eyepiece for solar observations [see FH's 1864-4-27].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6663

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Henry W. Cookson
Date:
[30 April 1864]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.366 & 24.41
Summary:

Declining the offer of a honorary degree by the University of Cambridge on the grounds of ill health.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11516

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Sir Charles Lyell
Date:
[1864-5]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.429
Summary:

Introducing his eldest son and his son's newly married wife.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7163

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Augustus De Morgan
Date:
[3 May 1864]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.43
Summary:

Comments on some mathematical problems; asks if AD knows about a German geometer by the name of [Bernhard] Riemann; suggests some new names for trigonometry.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7164

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Augustus De Morgan
Date:
[4 May 1864]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.44
Summary:

Comments on health of family, and on parliament considering a bill to change weights and measures.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel5008

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Walter Marsham Adams
Date:
[4 May 1864]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.386 & 24.45
Summary:

Acknowledging receipt of the manuscript. JH will be unable to give an opinion as the work is so voluminous that he cannot spare the time, unless WA is prepared to loan it for a long period.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1424

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Gabriel Stokes
Date:
[13 May 1864]
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library 7656/RS436
Summary:

Agrees to review paper [see GS's 1864-5-12].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel9222

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Whewell
Date:
[16 May 1864]
Source of text:
TC, Camb. Add. Ms.a.207113 (C: RS:HS 24.46)
Summary:

Sends Book VII of JH's Iliad translation. Son William to be married Thursday. JH continues to be ill.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4173

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Merchants Taylor Co.
Date:
[21 May 1864]
Source of text:
Harvard: Houghton AAH 67m-67 (62)
Summary:

Compliments to the company.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3317

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Gabriel Stokes
Date:
[24 May 1864]
Source of text:
RS RR.5.234
Summary:

Reports on Edward Sabine's paper [R.S.P.T., 154, 227-] comparing magnetic disturbances at Kew and Nertschinsk. Makes suggestion regarding period of solar spots and other matters, but deems paper worthy of publication.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel891

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
John Herschel (son)
Date:
[25 May 1864]
Source of text:
JHS 5.11
Summary:

Positively responds to son John's idea of geodesic measurements of much larger than usual triangles; suggests that John is not likely to be able to correct the whole world's English; JH reports about sickness in the family including his own seemingly permanent bronchitis.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel14594

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
[Edward Sabine?]
Date:
[1864-6]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0579.2; Reel 1093
Summary:

Pendulum experiments are already approved at principal stations in Russian trigonometrical survey. Recent communication from J. H. Pratt to R.S.L. about pendulum observations.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1501

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Sir Charles Lyell
Date:
[2 June 1864]
Source of text:
APS B.D25.L.5
Summary:

Writes to introduce JH's son William James and his new bride to the Lyell's. Both JH and his wife, Margaret, are suffering from illness.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel180

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[3 June 1864]
Source of text:
RGO 6.255.44
Summary:

About observing a grain-shaped spot on the sun; greetings to Friedrich Winnecke.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel5387

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Charles Babbage
Date:
[5 June 1864]
Source of text:
RS:HS 2.334
Summary:

Thanking him for his book [probably Passages in the Life of a Philosopher].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel12948

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Edward Sabine
Date:
[1864-6-9 or later]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0360.1; Reel 1054
Summary:

Pendulum experiments to be conducted at stations of Great Indian Trigonometrical Survey.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel12963

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Edward Sabine
Date:
[11 June 1864]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0376; Reel 1054 (C: RS:HS 24.47)
Summary:

Plans to confer with [J. T.] Walker and F. A. T. Winnecke from Pulkovo to learn of Russian pendulum experiments before reporting to R.S.L. council. J. H. Pratt's measurement of polar axis and theory about earth's center of gravity.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3393

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Edward Sabine
Date:
[16 June 1864]
Source of text:
RS MC.7.99
Summary:

Gives reasons for and discusses technicalities of supporting pendulum experiments at astronomical and geodesical stations in Indian trigonometrical survey.

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John Herschel Project
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