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Herschel13052

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Gabriel Stokes
Date:
6 [June] 1869
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0464; Reel 1055
Summary:

Correction to be made in JH's biographical sketch of William Whewell.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10689

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Sir William Huggins
Date:
[9 June 1869]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.52 & 24.268
Summary:

Thinks it would be best to send his son's letter to G. G. Stokes at the R.S.L. Cannot give a positive opinion on WH's plan for seeing the prominences. Finds some discrepancies in the Report of WH's paper on Sirius and the paper itself.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel13273

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
John Herschel (son)
Date:
[10 June 1869]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0530; Reel 1053
Summary:

Forwarded both of John's papers on solar observations to William Huggins. Comments on solar prominences and spots, and on Eta Argus. Concern for Esther's fever. Report of 'great meteor' seen at Collingwood. Alexander Herschel came home from Glasgow with new device called 'bicycle' that amuses neighbors. Explains optics problem in telescopes. English system of measures.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel2550

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Adam Sedgwick
Date:
[16 June 1869]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.459 (C: RS:HS 24.269)
Summary:

Praises AS for commencing his fifty-second course of lectures at age 84. Laments his own frailty. Recommends an array of meteorological books . Lists 'useful' meteorological instruments. Mentions family matters.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11559

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Julie Laurence Levi
Date:
[17 June 1869]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.476
Summary:

Sympathizes with Dr. C. T. Beke but regrets he is unable to contribute towards his assistance.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10993

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Henry Bence Jones
Date:
[19 June 1869]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.339 (C: RS:HS 24.270)
Summary:

Grieves to say that he will be unable to attend the meeting at the Royal Institution to honor Michael Faraday, as his health is so poor. Thinks Faraday was a great man in all ways.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel14089

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Unidentified
Date:
[27 June 1869]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0306.2 & TxU:H/M-0307.2; Reel 1087
Summary:

Develops mathematical theorem.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6645

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Elizabeth Colling
Date:
[28 June 1869]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.271
Summary:

Comments on poetry, EC's and Robert Browning's; talks about the bicycle.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7220

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Augustus De Morgan
Date:
[1 July 1869]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.273
Summary:

About AD's health and the cold summer.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel13559

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Thomas Warner
Date:
[7 July 1869]
Source of text:
'Preface to Improved Edition' of Thomas Warner, How To Keep the Clock Right (187
Summary:

Received TW's book and approves simplicity and economy of its method of keeping time by using small fixed telescope to reduce star observations. Disapproves of using 'Dominical Letters.' Suggests using Julian dates.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel13274

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
John Herschel (son)
Date:
[14 July 1869]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0531; Reel 1053
Summary:

Glad for Mary's recovery. Congratulations on John's promotion to captain. Suggests method to study solar prominences without spectroscope. [Letter continues 15 June:] Alexander Herschel reports that G. B. Airy tried this method unsuccessfully long ago, but JH is sure it will work.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3150

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Gabriel Stokes
Date:
[15 July 1869]
Source of text:
RS RR.6.14
Summary:

Reports on paper [R.S.P.T., 159,. 575-] by [Thomas] Andrews on continuity of gaseous and liquid states of matter, believing it fit for publication.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1460

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Gabriel Stokes
Date:
[18 July 1869]
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library 7656/H724
Summary:

Note to accompany an extract from JH's son John's letter, reporting on his observations of solar prominences.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7221

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Augustus De Morgan
Date:
[22 July 1869]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.274
Summary:

Concerned about AD's health. Offers theory of the constitution of matter.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

SOMERVILLE343

From:
John Herschel
To:
Mary Somerville
Date:
30 Jul 1869
Source of text:
HS 24.275, RS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse

Herschel2685

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Mary Somerville
Date:
[30 July 1869]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24:275
Summary:

Attached comments [not included] convey JH's views on MS's new manuscript [On Molecular and Microscopical Science, 1869]. Expresses reservations about MS's endorsement of current ideas of forces and their correlation and conservation.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8719

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Richard Anthony Proctor
Date:
[1 August 1869]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.276
Summary:

Encourages RP in his speculations about the nebulae and the structure of the Milky Way, which RP suggested is formed of a 'system of convolutions,' but raises objections to RP's views. Discusses idea that the Milky Way contains miniatures of itself and that beyond it may be a hierarchy of universes comparable to the Milky Way.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel911

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Margaret Brodie Herschel
Date:
[16 August 1869]
Source of text:
JHS 5.30
Summary:

Of the fruit in the garden and the arrival of various of their daughters; JH seems to be feeling a little sorry for himself, but concludes with a riddle in French.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel2985

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Adolphe Quetelet
Date:
[18 August 1869]
Source of text:
Académie belgique: #53
Summary:

Thanks for second volume of Physique sociale. Happy to see AQ refuting 'the results of statistics of life, accident, crime...[as] indicative of an absence of free agency in human beings and the presence of some sort of impelling necessity.' Mentions JH's daughter's marriage and her learning Chinese.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8721

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Richard Anthony Proctor
Date:
[20 August 1869]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.114 & RS:HS 24.277
Summary:

Discusses Olbers's Paradox, raises objections to RP's argument for the existence of dark celestial matter, and points out problems in RP's method of measuring stellar diameters.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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