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From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Henry Kater
Date:
n.d.
Source of text:
WT 57468
Summary:

Thanks HK for a chronometer, and sends some polishing papers.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Henry Kater
Date:
[1821 to 1822]
Source of text:
RS:HS 19.17 (C: RS:HS 25.13.21)
Summary:

Sends set of William Herschel's duplicated papers. Curious results 'examining the rings,' but bad weather has hampered experiments. Correction of spherical aberration. JH is using J. d'Alembert's Opuscules. Image of Alpha Lyrae.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Henry Kater
Date:
[16 January 1821]
Source of text:
RS:HS 19.14 (C: 20.109)
Summary:

Collecting English observations of eclipse of 7 Sept. 1820 for H. J. Walbeck. Construction of object glasses.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Henry Kater
Date:
[5 August 1821]
Source of text:
RS:HS 19.15 (C: 20.123)
Summary:

Delivered R.S.L. resolution on 'Junction of French & English triangles' to François Arago. Arago alone will meet HK and T. F. Colby to finish triangles this summer. J. B. Biot will collaborate next year with HK on pendulum measurements.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Henry Kater
Date:
[1822 to 1829]
Source of text:
RS:HS 25.13.20
Summary:

Unable to be at Katers' home for dinner, but will arrive later. JH is pleased to find HK's and JH's measurements of Mars agree with those of JH's father, William, and compares these with some other measures.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Henry Kater
Date:
[15 March 1822]
Source of text:
RS:HS 20.135
Summary:

Sends the formula for finding the maximum diameter of the planets.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Henry Kater
Date:
[1822-3-28 or later]
Source of text:
RS:HS 19.16 (C: RS:HS 25.13.19)
Summary:

Encloses JH's translation of J. J. Littrow's method of determining latitude by pole star. It already appeared in F. X. Zach's Correspondance astronomique.... Send Francis Beaufort's survey of Karamania coast.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Henry Kater
Date:
[18 May 1822]
Source of text:
RS:HS 19.18
Summary:

Leaving town for a week. Will read [Francis Beaufort's] book after return. Delighted by 'two instances of good fortune' in one week at Union Place [HK's home].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Henry Kater
Date:
[28 June 1822]
Source of text:
RS:HS 19.20 (C: RS:HS 20.146)
Summary:

Examine reflecting theodolite by [?] Schenk, now at Edward Troughton's. Arrangements for Madeira expedition. James South is willing to make observations there. 'Bowdich (the African)' is now at Teneriffe or Madeira and needs employment. William Herschel's health.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Henry Kater
Date:
[2 August 1822]
Source of text:
RS:HS 19.25
Summary:

Encloses table of star declinations for 1815 and 1820, received from F. W. Bessel, who used different meridian circles for each year.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Henry Kater
Date:
[31 July 1823]
Source of text:
RS:HS 19.51 (C: RS:HS 20.165)
Summary:

'Our micrometer screws' are not in error. F. G. W. Struve's star measurements using Josef Fraunhofer's repeating micrometer agree well with JH's. So error must be in HK's observations.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Henry Kater
Date:
16?] November [1825
Source of text:
RS:HS 19.50
Summary:

Thomas Young approved supplying [Richard] Copeland with two sextants and one mountain barometer.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Henry Kater
Date:
[21 March 1826]
Source of text:
RS:HS 20.231
Summary:

Asks for the use of an invariable pendulum and a clock from the Board of Longitude so that G. B. Airy and William Whewell can carry out experiments to measure the change in gravity and the mean density of the earth, in a Yorkshire coal mine.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Henry Kater
Date:
[6 May 1826]
Source of text:
RS:HS 19.52
Summary:

Invites HK to dinner Saturday to meet James South and Alexis Bouvard.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Henry Kater
Date:
[27 June 1827]
Source of text:
RS:HS B26.62
Summary:

Informs HK that JH intends to resign as secretary of the R.S.L.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Henry Kater
Date:
[1 July 1828]
Source of text:
New South Wales State Library
Summary:

Has found some errors in the sheets of computations HK sent. Lists these. Comments on astronomical work of [William] Richardson and on the reading of 'The repeal of the Longitude Acts Bill.'

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Henry Kater
Date:
[17 July 1828]
Source of text:
RS:HS 21.19
Summary:

JH very upset at the government abolishing the Board of Longitude; has many questions as to what will happen now.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Henry Kater
Date:
[1 August 1828]
Source of text:
DMC 695A.885.6 (C: RS:HS 21.25)
Summary:

Comments on a paper about differential calculus, prepared by Mr. Knight, which JH confesses he does not understand. Adds some astronomical observations JH made at Slough before leaving there, and noting the appearance of J. F. Encke's Berlin Ephemeris concludes with 'England is fated to lag in the rear of all her neighbours—at least in science.'

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Henry Kater
Date:
[19 November 1829]
Source of text:
RS:HS 21.50
Summary:

About the use of the collimator, together with some family news.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Henry Kater
Date:
[18 February 1830]
Source of text:
RS:HS 19.55
Summary:

Laments indiscretion of R.S.L. president [Davies Gilbert], attributing to JH statements JH never made about astronomical observations and James South's telescope. Clarifies what JH actually saw.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project