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Herschel8927

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Photographic News
Date:
[7 May 1860]
Source of text:
Photographic News, 4 (May 11, 1860), 13
Summary:

Discusses the possibility of stereoscopic photography of action scenes. Also speculates about color photography.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel12745

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Thomas Milner Gibson
Date:
[16 May 1860]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0161.2; Reel 1054
Summary:

Declines nomination to commission to prepare for International Statistical Conference meeting in London.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel882

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
John Herschel (son)
Date:
[25 May 1860]
Source of text:
JHS 5.3
Summary:

Comments extensively on the calculation, and elimination, of error in geodesic measurements; JH concludes with a few family news items.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel721

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Alexander Stewart Herschel
Date:
6 [June] 1860
Source of text:
JHS 1.114
Summary:

Mostly taken up with JH advising AH about changing his course of studies at Cambridge, together with some family news from home.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8675

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Thomas Stevenson
Date:
[15 June 1860]
Source of text:
NatLibScot MS.785, f.23
Summary:

Thanks TS for TS's publication on lighthouse illumination; adds some of JH's own ideas on the subject.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel942

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Unidentified
Date:
[1860-6-25 or later]
Source of text:
JHS 6.64
Summary:

Comments on the behavior of Sirius with its companion, and on the likelihood of the existence of the inter-Mercurial planet.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8931

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Photographic News
Date:
[30 June 1860]
Source of text:
Photographic News, 4 (1860), 118
Summary:

[Writing under the pseudonym 'Redde Suum Cuique'], JH notes that a recently published process for recovering silver from old plate was in fact anticipated by James Keir in a 1790 R.S.P.T. paper. Attacks a recent misuse of the word 'actinometer.'

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1865

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Alexander J. B. Hope
Date:
[31 June 1860]
Source of text:
WT 63313.1
Summary:

Comments on the publication of several volumes.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel2397

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Edward Sabine
Date:
[2 August 1860]
Source of text:
RS:HS 23.302
Summary:

Occupied with matters besides magnetism lately. Interest in science of Prince Consort [Albert] is praiseworthy. Discusses several observatories and letter of [T. W.?] Blakiston.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4424

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Thomas Maclear
Date:
6 August [1860]
Source of text:
Cape Archives/Maclear Papers File 100
Summary:

Congratulates TM on receiving knighthood. Sends recommendations and makes inquiries concerning Harold Maclear's schooling.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel13525

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
[T. P. Anderson]
Date:
[11 August 1860]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0757.1; Reel 1089
Summary:

Has no knowledge of transactions affecting trust fund for W. H. B. Hollier, other than what JH noted in previous letters.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8754

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Parsons (Lord Rosse)
Date:
[16 August 1860]
Source of text:
Rosse Papers K2.7
Summary:

Sends JH's 'On Atoms' to WP.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel5674

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Henry Samuel Boase
Date:
[21 August 1860]
Source of text:
RS:HS 23.303
Summary:

Thanks HB for a copy of his work on the philosophy of nature.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel9510

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Robert FitzRoy
Date:
[22 August 1860]
Source of text:
RS:HS 23.304
Summary:

Asks for meteorological data that RF may have collected.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel22

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[23 August 1860]
Source of text:
RGO 6.379.140
Summary:

Asks for details about a strange drawing of Jupiter JH had seen at the Royal Observatory some months earlier, and offers some comments about Warren de La Rue's eclipse photographs.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8616

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Norton Shaw
Date:
[30 August 1860]
Source of text:
Royal Geographical Society
Summary:

Please send copies for distribution to JH's friends of JH's paper ['On a New Projection of the Sphere'].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel12383

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
W. Paterson
Date:
[1 September 1860]
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.240 & 23.305
Summary:

Thanks for letter regarding his prediction of the floods. May be partly to blame as he did mention certain happenings that could be the result of solar phenomenon. Comments on this. If WP communicates this to a paper would like two or three copies.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7123

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Augustus De Morgan
Date:
[4 September 1860]
Source of text:
RS:HS 23.307
Summary:

Selling house [in London]; comments on H. S. Boase's writing on annuities.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel5605

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Jean Baptiste Biot
Date:
[4 September 1860]
Source of text:
RS:HS 4.94a & 23.306
Summary:

Was very pleased to receive another of JB's works. Glad to be associated in his revelations concerning molecular and polarization powers. Recall their past meetings and hopes to renew acquaintance in Paris at some future date.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel883

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
John Herschel (son)
Date:
[11 September 1860]
Source of text:
JHS 5.4
Summary:

Begins with a discussion of the probability of error in a series of measurements and comments on astronomical observations including the observation of a comet.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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