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Herschel1248

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Davies Gilbert
Date:
[27 June 1827]
Source of text:
RS:HS B27.12 (C: RS:HS 20.257)
Summary:

Informs DG that JH is resigning as secretary of R.S.L. [at the anniversary date?] and expresses great regret that some regard the position of secretary not as an elected position, but in the patronage of the President.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1843

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Francis Beaufort
Date:
[27 June 1827]
Source of text:
WT 68115 (C: RS:HS 20.256)
Summary:

Informs FB that it is JH's intention to resign as secretary of the R.S.L. at the next anniversary meeting.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1230

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

Herschel4088

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Henry Smyth
Date:
[28 June 1827]
Source of text:
RS:HS 20.258
Summary:

Astronomical Society will lend instruments, including a Beaufoy Clock and a transit circle, to WS for his observations.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel5837

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Henry Peter Brougham
Date:
[1827-7-1 or later]
Source of text:
RS:HS 4.306 (C: 20.260)
Summary:

Further reasons why he cannot accept the position of Professor at London University.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel9026

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Henry Peter Brougham
Date:
[1 July 1827]
Source of text:
Univ.Coll.London College Correspondence (draft: RS:HS 4.304 & C: 20.259)
Summary:

Declines the offer of the Professorship of Higher Mathematics at the University of London. Wishes to have time to devote to research.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel5267

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Charles Babbage
Date:
[29 July 1827]
Source of text:
RS:HS 2.212
Summary:

Letter of condolence on the death of CB's son Charles.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8806

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Henry Fox Talbot
Date:
[1827-8-9 or later]
Source of text:
Science Museum Talbt 1/4
Summary:

Thanks WT for optical equipment sent. Notes death of Augustin Fresnel. Has purchased a telescope from James South.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Faraday0332

From:
John Frederick William Herschel
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
27 August 1827
Source of text:
RI MS F3 B397
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel3398

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
[27 August 1827]
Source of text:
RI 397-9 F3B
Summary:

Hopes to meet JH in London, and to finish building for R.S.L. soon. Discusses various prisms for experiments. Mentions 'neat' process for drawing uranium from iron.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel5268

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Elizabeth [Betty] Plumleigh Babbage
Date:
[30 August 1827]
Source of text:
RS:HS 2.213
Summary:

Is sorry to hear the distressing news. Offers suggestions to relieve Charles Babbage of his sorrows.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel9768

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Davies Gilbert
Date:
[6 September 1827]
Source of text:
RS:HS 20.261
Summary:

Business matters for the R.S.L.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1477

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Henry Smyth
Date:
7 September [1827]
Source of text:
APS B.Sm98.2 (C: RS:HS 20.262)
Summary:

Discusses WS's comparison of results with transit circle and Astronomical Society catalogue.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel9769

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Davies Gilbert
Date:
[5 October 1827]
Source of text:
RS:HS 20.263
Summary:

Comments on geodesical measurements being made in Ireland.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel9017

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Thomas John Hussey
Date:
[11 October 1827]
Source of text:
Univ.Coll.London MS Graves 23(1) (draft: RS:HS 10.138 & C: 20.264)
Summary:

Has been able to destroy a large portion of the color of brown sugar by the use of chlorine. If these hints are of use to TH's friend, TH may convey them.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel602

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[18 October 1827]
Source of text:
RGO 6.803.29
Summary:

Comments on GA's work on the solar tables, GA's pending paper on eyepieces, and on the quality of observations made at Greenwich and Paris; GA is intending to repeat the experiment of swinging a pendulum in a mine, and JH believes the Board of Longitude can provide the equipment.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1209

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
[Aimé] Guinand
Date:
[20 October 1827]
Source of text:
RS:HS B26.29b
Summary:

Tells AG that JH is a member of a committee looking for ways of making better glass, so AG should not reveal any secrets to JH. JH provides the names of the leading telescope-makers in London, whom AG may wish to contact.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3195

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Rowan Hamilton
Date:
[27 October 1827]
Source of text:
TCD 1493:15
Summary:

Thanks for, praises, and comments on WH's 'Systems of Rays' paper. Says WH will have a distinguished career. Mentions other works and hopes to forward them with others he receives to WH.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8807

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Henry Fox Talbot
Date:
[1827-11 or later]
Source of text:
Science Museum Talbt 1/5
Summary:

Responds to WT's 1827-10-29. Sending JH's Light, which uses some of WT's publications.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8553

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Unidentified
Date:
[1827-11]
Source of text:
BostonPubLib Ms.Eng. 476
Summary:

Offers the correspondent's friend the information that JH has received a letter indicating that John Henslow is a formidable candidate for the professorship of botany.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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