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Herschel8651

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Griffith
Date:
[3 November 1870]
Source of text:
Manchester Central Library (ACCS: TxU:H/M-0222.2; Reel 1087)
Summary:

Agrees with GG and G. G. Stokes that the 'Magnetic Reduction Grant' should be approved. G. A. Erman also agrees.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel5037

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William H. Attree
Date:
[3 November 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.337
Summary:

Relationship of electricity to magnetism, and relevance to 'auroral streamers'.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6599

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Elizabeth Colling
Date:
[4 November 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.338
Summary:

Thanks for the clippings about an aurora; thoughts on the relationship of poetry to music.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11635

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
John Lubbock
Date:
[6 November 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.339
Summary:

Returns, with thanks, a copy of JL's father's [John William Lubbock] work on lunar theory, and compliments JL on his own writings on prehistoric man.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8796

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Stanley Jevons
Date:
[10 November 1870]
Source of text:
John Rylands University Library of Manchester
Summary:

[Responding to WJ's 1870-10-29], JH declines participating, suggesting that too many lobbying groups already exist and that such groups frequently end up agitating for ends others than those that led to their creation.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel919

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
John Herschel (son)
Date:
[17 November 1870]
Source of text:
JHS 5.41
Summary:

Asks son John whom he would like to have sign the certificate for fellowship in the R.S.L. [see JH's 1870-9-7]; JH talks about ways of dealing with local irregularities in geodetic surveying [see JH's 1869-11-25]; is wishing Amelia and family were out of China and into India.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel9759

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Katherine A. S. Gibson
Date:
1870-11-[26 orlater]
Source of text:
RS:HS 8.106 (C: RS:HS 24.341)
Summary:

Outlines the difficulty of selecting a person to write a memoir of William Whewell.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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