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Herschel2991

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Adolphe Quetelet
Date:
1871-3-21[?]
Source of text:
Académie belgique: #63
Summary:

Reiterates his congratulations to AQ for his work on statistics. Believes AQ will have many readers. Mentions that JH is now eighty years old.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6652

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Elizabeth Colling
Date:
[22 March 1871]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.359
Summary:

More remarks relating to French/German relations [see JH's 1871-2-9]. Thanks EC for more poetry and an account of an earthquake she experienced. JH is in poor health.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel9358

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Georg Adolph Erman
Date:
[25 March 1871]
Source of text:
RS:HS 7.110 (C: RS:HS 24.360)
Summary:

No doubt he has received some of the money granted by the B.A.A.S. Has sent it all to GE as he did not know the address of H. J. R. Petersen. Unable to follow GE's scientific arguments. Require simplification.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel13185

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Frederick Herschel Waterhouse
Date:
[31 March 1871]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0493; Reel 1055
Summary:

Please clarify FW's request for testimonial from JH to assist FW in obtaining better appointment. JH does not know FW's capabilities and can testify only to good character of FW's family.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10653

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

Herschel4966

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

Herschel5003

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

Herschel6653

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

Herschel8618

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

Herschel1867

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

Herschel7783

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

Herschel10704

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.

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John Herschel Project
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