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Herschel2398

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Edward Sabine
Date:
[17 September 1860]
Source of text:
RS:HS 23.308
Summary:

Lists magnetic books received from ES. It will be some time before JH can direct his attention to magnetic issues.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel14126

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Unidentified
Date:
[1860-9-18 or later]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0348.2; Reel 1087
Summary:

Criticizes point in [recipient's] scheme for issuing bank notes.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1980

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Norman Pogson
Date:
[6 October 1860]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.9 (C: RS:HS 23.309)
Summary:

Supplies what is in effect a testimonial to NP's abilities for use in NP's quest to become director of the Madras Observatory.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4245

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Henry Smyth
Date:
[7 October 1860]
Source of text:
RS:HS 23.310
Summary:

Asks WS opinion of attaining a civil pension for N. R. Pogson in honor of his astronomical accomplishment.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel9511

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Robert FitzRoy
Date:
[22 October 1860]
Source of text:
RS:HS 23.311
Summary:

Asks for information about wrecks at sea and lives lost.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel9512

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Robert FitzRoy
Date:
[24 October 1860]
Source of text:
RS:HS 23.312
Summary:

Thanks for a number of RF's writings; asks for more rainfall data to try to establish a relationship between rainfall and the solar cycle.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1982

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Norman Pogson
Date:
[30 October 1860]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.11 (C: RS:HS 23.314)
Summary:

Congratulates NP on appointment to Madras Observatory. States that he will use both Isis and Hestia nomenclature without misgiving. Furnishes names from Greek mythology for NP to use for asteroid discoveries.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11905

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William MacPherson
Date:
[30 October 1860]
Source of text:
RS:HS 12.267 & 23.313
Summary:

Will not be able to produce his article in time for the January issue, but could write a much better article on meteorology if given longer, till July.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel9513

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Robert FitzRoy
Date:
[31 October 1860]
Source of text:
RS:HS 23.315
Summary:

Thanks for all the material received; comments on some of RF's meteorological ideas.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1135

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
John Wrottesley
Date:
[2 November 1860]
Source of text:
RS:HS 25.12.5
Summary:

Thanks JW for his double star catalogue; JH comments on a few items contained therein.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel9514

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Robert FitzRoy
Date:
[6 November 1860]
Source of text:
RS:HS 23.316
Summary:

Comments on RF's writing on drifting ice; comments extensively on RF's ideas about air circulation.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11624

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Lassell
Date:
[13 November 1860]
Source of text:
RS:HS 23.317
Summary:

Comments on WL's nebulae diagrams and asks for more.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel9515

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Robert FitzRoy
Date:
[28 November 1860]
Source of text:
RS:HS 23.318
Summary:

Comments on difficulties JH finds in some of RF's writings.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4615

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Henry Smyth
Date:
[28 November 1860]
Source of text:
RS:HS 23.319
Summary:

Signs Charles Shadwell's recommendation. Sends new maps of earth, which include more surface with less distortion. Sends copy of JH's Telescope.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel2399

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Edward Sabine
Date:
[29 November 1860]
Source of text:
RS:HS 23.320
Summary:

Asks for information concerning the magnetic observations and compilations made in various countries and regions.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel24

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[6 December 1860]
Source of text:
RGO 6.379.144
Summary:

A note with a copy of JH's article on telescopes for the Encyclopaedia Britannica, together with some papers to be forwarded to James Glaisher.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel310

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[8 December 1860]
Source of text:
RGO 6.475.235
Summary:

Has tried a number of different fractional projections, some more interesting than others [see GA's 1860-12-7].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8928

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
the London Times
Date:
[12 December 1860]
Source of text:
RS:HS 23:321
Summary:

[It having been asserted in the Times that the Russians have not communicated about the climate at Pekin], JH notes that in fact wonderfully detailed meteorological observations for Pekin from 1850 to 1855 have been widely distributed by the Russians.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel13041

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
[James Calder] Stewart
Date:
[13 December 1860]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0454; Reel 1055
Summary:

Please withdraw [?]'s name from ballot until JH can confer with him when [he] comes home on leave next year. Thanks for care that JS is showing to Alexander S. Herschel.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel2400

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Edward Sabine
Date:
[20 December 1860]
Source of text:
RS:HS 23.322
Summary:

Thanks for declination readings from photograms at Kew. Thinks meteorological observatory on Vesuvius is good idea, but not sure a magnetic one is. Includes two charts of world.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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