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Herschel11215

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Pierre Simon Laplace
Date:
[3 May 1825]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.104 & 20.209
Summary:

Has too long delayed thanking him for his works. Sends some memoirs of Edward Sabine, etc. Comments on work that needs doing.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel2727

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Edward Sabine
Date:
[6 May 1825]
Source of text:
RS:HS 20.210
Summary:

Read your proposal on experiments at Teneriffe to the R.S.L. Council, which declined to make 'an especial recommendation' in support of them to the government.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel9602

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier
Date:
[9 May 1825]
Source of text:
RS:HS 7.343 & 20.211
Summary:

Copies of the Éloge, which JF sent, are still at the Customs house so he is unable to comment on it. A list of his father's works is to be found in the Index to the R.S.P.T. Gives a list of all the discoveries and inventions of his father.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8460

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
James South
Date:
[16 May 1825]
Source of text:
RS:HS 16.440 (C: RS:HS 20.212 inc)
Summary:

Has received materials sent by JS. Printing of paper by JS and JH on double stars is nearly completed. Urges that the issue is not whether the observations of 70 Ophiuchi made by Wilhelm Struve are better than those made by JH and JS; the issue is truth. Caroline Herschel has sent to JH a catalogue of his father's observation. Busy observing nebulae.

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John Herschel Project
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Faraday0254a

From:
John Frederick William Herschel
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
21 May 1825
Source of text:
WIHM MS 7868/4
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel1842

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
[21 May 1825]
Source of text:
WT A-300
Summary:

Rearranges a meeting of [the R. S. L.'s Glass Committee] to take place at the Pellat and Green's Glass House in Holland St.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel2864

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Wilhelm Struve
Date:
[31 May 1825]
Source of text:
RS:HS 20.213
Summary:

Acknowledges receipt of WS's second volume of observations and the new telescope's results. Mentions Caroline Herschel's catalogue of nebulae.

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John Herschel Project
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