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From:
William H. Attree
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1 November 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.417
Summary:

Question regarding auroral streams. [Part of this letter is missing; digest was obtained by consulting JH's reply of 1870-11-3]

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
William B. Davis
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[3 November 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.475
Summary:

Is looking for employment as a calculator and if JH has the superintendence of the reduction of C. F. Gauss's Constants he would like the position.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
William H. Attree
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[8 November 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.418
Summary:

Thanking him for his reply to his query of 1870-11-1.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Richard John Nelson
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[15 November 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.115
Summary:

JH may recall meeting him at the Cape in March 1836. Now had a query regarding the size and limits of zodiacal light. Quotes case of errors in observations made by the Captain and Mate of a ship on which RN was returning from the Cape. Has now retired from the service.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Robert Brown
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[15 November 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 4.320
Summary:

Further comments on JH's paper on the musical scales.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Andrew Scott Waugh
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
23 November [1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.127
Summary:

Acknowledges return of R.S.L. certificate signed by JH. Anticipating visit with JH's son John, whom AW appointed to Great Trigonometrical Survey of India.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Katherine A. S. Gibson
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[25 November 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 8.105
Summary:

What are JH's views on a suitable person to write a memoir of William Whewell.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Cleveland Abbe
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[28 November 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.379
Summary:

Acknowledging receipt of JH's Slough catalogues. Further news regarding the publication of Professor O. M. Mitchel[l]'s Observations.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Thomas G. Bunt
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[30 November 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.126
Summary:

Sending calculations on the relative proportions of land to sea on the surface of the globe. Would welcome any comments from JH.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project