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From:
Augustus De Morgan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[7 January 1856]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.280
Summary:

Wishing him well for the new year. Hears JH has visited the East India College. Sends a theorem. H. P. Brougham (Baron Brougham and Vaux) amuses himself by finding the laws of central force for curves. Has been finding information on a nephew of Isaac Newton. George Stanhope (6th Earl of Chesterfield) and T. A. W. Parker (9th Earl of Macclesfield) were pupils of Abraham De Moivre.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Thomas Spring-Rice
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[11 January 1856]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0376; Reel 1087
Summary:

TS will be chairman of Decimal Coinage commission. Do majority of bankers queried by JH favor this decimal system? Death of William Whewell's wife, Cordelia, sister-in-law of TS.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles De La Pryme
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
15 January [1856]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0162; Reel 1087
Summary:

Encourages JH to contest Cambridge University seat in Parliament, following death of Henry Goulburn.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project