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From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Frederick Howlett
Date:
[7 April 1871]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.361
Summary:

Is at present too ill to involve himself in any calculations necessary for making a good optical eyepiece.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Thomas Andrews
Date:
[13 April 1871]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.347
Summary:

Thanks TA for further information [see JH's 1871-2-22] on TA's work on ice calorimeter.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
W[illiam] Ackland
Date:
[13 April 1871]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.381 & 24.362
Summary:

Is distressed to hear that [W. L.] Newman's tables cannot be found at the R.A.S. Please make a further search. Does the R.A.S. have C. J. G. [=J. W.] Pastorff's volume of drawings of sunspots?

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Elizabeth Colling
Date:
[15 April 1871]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.363
Summary:

Comments on several aspects of poetry; further comments on French/German relations [see JH's 1871-2-9 & 1871-3-22].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Benjamin Carpenter
Date:
[19 April 1871]
Source of text:
Royal Geographical Society
Summary:

Discusses WC's ideas on the causes of oceanic circulation. Notes that wind currents are easier to study than water currents. Glad WC got his specimens of Mediterranean water.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Alexander J. B. Hope
Date:
[20 April 1871]
Source of text:
WT 63313.3
Summary:

Has despatched a letter on a subject of concern to JH to the editor of the Saturday News, but now feels it is too feeble. Is mostly feeling too ill to write or think for long.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
John Williams
Date:
[21 April 1871]
Source of text:
RAS: MSS Add.29 [suppl.]
Summary:

Encloses copy of JH's letter to R.A.S. [see JH's 1864-6-29] that accompanied JH's submission of W. L. Newman's tables for determining radii of aplanatic lenses. Suspects that there was more than one volume of tables.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Sir William Huggins
Date:
[28 April 1871]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.364
Summary:

Thanks WH for informing JH of his son John being selected as a Council nominee for election to F.R.S.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project