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Herschel8384

From:
Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
1824-2
Source of text:
RS:HS 19.218
Summary:

Sends notes on a paper which are to be submitted to James South. Also included [?] are copies of the paper for JH. Attached is a note by JH about the papers of JH's father, William.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel9981

From:
James Grahame
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[9 February 1824]
Source of text:
RS:HS 8.316
Summary:

On JG's concern for JH's well-being.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7405

From:
Johann Wilhelm Pastorff
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[9 February 1824]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 6/2.10 verso; Reel 8
Summary:

Requests answer to JP's earlier letter. Observations of photospheres around planets and satellites.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel5806

From:
John Brinkley
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[10 February 1824]
Source of text:
RS:HS 4.276
Summary:

Has just received his letter and Struve's observations. Comments on these and those of F. W. Bessel.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11338

From:
Joseph Johann Littrow
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[10 February 1824]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.246
Summary:

Has sent money for Robert Molyneux clock care of Friess, the bankers. Is grateful for JH's trouble over the clock. Do not print certain observations he sent as they form the subject of an argument with F. X. von Zach.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4636

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[13 February 1824]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.20
Summary:

Description of theory of a telescope, though not practical yet.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel5933

From:
Francis Baily
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[20 February 1824]
Source of text:
RS:HS 3.56
Summary:

Is sending a letter from Dr. John Brinkley, and the corrected elements of the comet.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel2087

From:
Stephen Peter Rigaud
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[26 February 1824]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.336
Summary:

Cannot find observation of comet of 1759 in [James] Bradley's papers. Discusses eighteenth-century astronomical observations. Can send JH particulars if he wants them.

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John Herschel Project
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