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From:
Anne Elise Knipping
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
1847-4
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.59
Summary:

Comments on the reports of the birthday celebrations for JH's aunt Caroline.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir Charles Shadwell
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1 April 1847]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.198
Summary:

Presents 'tables for facilitating the approximate prediction of occultation and eclipses for any particular place,' so that seamen without specialized backgrounds in mathematics can observe and improve hydrography.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
William Rowan Hamilton
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1 April 1847]
Source of text:
unknown
Summary:

Sends some results concerning undisturbed parabolic motion. Laments the Irish famine.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project