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Herschel780

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Margaret Brodie Herschel
Date:
[26 February 1832]
Source of text:
JHS.HCEJ.520
Summary:

All is well in the household; JH is to chair the cholera committee for the parish, which includes inoculation for all committee members and an oath to treat the sick if nurses cannot be found; JH is receiving political pamphlets [which he ridicules], after Lord John Russell cited JH as an authority in parliament.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1040

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Mr. Briarly
Date:
[29 February 1832]
Source of text:
RS:HS 25.3.5
Summary:

Has received a pamphlet from B about the apportionment of boroughs in a manner to eliminate the 'rotten' boroughs; JH critiques the pamphlet, especially its attempt at mathematical logic.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel12590

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Mr. McIntyre
Date:
[29 February 1832]
Source of text:
RS:HS 25.3.4
Summary:

Arguing a statistical principle related to assessed values of several different boroughs.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7273

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Thomas Drummond
Date:
[29 February 1832]
Source of text:
RS:HS 21.103
Summary:

Comments on comparison of boroughs based on assessed value and on taxation.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8260

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Unidentified
Date:
[29 February 1832]
Source of text:
RS:HS 19.64
Summary:

Compares 'Products' principle with 'Sums' principle for numerical analysis of taxation in several boroughs. JH's opinion favoring Sums was quoted 'in the Assembly.'

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel9482

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Unidentified
Date:
[29 February 1832]
Source of text:
unknown
Summary:

Responds to an unidentified mathematician who had written a critique of ideas put forward by Thomas Drummond, regarding whether to estimate the importance of various boroughs primarily in terms of population or in terms of the wealth of the population.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4466

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Joseph Trumper
Date:
[2 March 1832]
Source of text:
RS:HS 21.104
Summary:

Thanks JT for loan of [John] Bullar's lectures. Stresses the value of good literature, especially by John Milton and Miguel de Cervantes.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel5981

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Francis Baily
Date:
[18 March 1832]
Source of text:
RS:HS 3.107-8 (C: RS:HS 21.105)
Summary:

Is to dine with Frederick Augustus (Duke of Sussex). Regarding pendulums and French theorists. Will be pleased to see his paper on proper motion when ready. Regarding new amateur astronomers.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

SOMERVILLE262

From:
John Herschel
To:
William Somerville
Date:
27 Mar 1832
Source of text:
HS 16.400, RS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse

Herschel2707

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Somerville
Date:
[27 March 1832]
Source of text:
RS:HS 16.400
Summary:

Asks WS to forward enclosed note to Professor Schlegel. Disappointed that his celestial mechanics lecture [review] did not appear in last issue of the Quarterly Review.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3970

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Caroline Lucretia Herschel
Date:
[17 April 1832]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0577.2.a; Reel 1058
Summary:

Wilhelm Struve's observations support JH's findings concerning the rapid revolution of Eta Coronae. In acknowledgement of the discovery that double stars are a 'revolving binary system,' JH changed the inscription on William Herschel's monument.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1041

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Richard Potter
Date:
[22 April 1832]
Source of text:
RS:HS 25.3.6
Summary:

Responds to RP's concerns about the nature of light and the interpretation of some interference experiments. JH believes that the undulatory theory of light is the best supported by the experiments at this time.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8866

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Editors of the Annales de chimie et de physique
Date:
[24 April 1832]
Source of text:
Annales de chimie, 49 (1832), 306-11
Summary:

Discusses a method of separating iron oxide from the oxides of other metals and a process for the purification of uranium oxide.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel5983

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Francis Baily
Date:
[24 April 1832]
Source of text:
RS:HS 3.110 & 21.106
Summary:

Is grateful for the offer of assistance from Frederick Augustus (Duke of Sussex), but would not care to avail himself of public funds as his intended visit is for his own private reasons.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel12611

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
[D. François J. Arago]
Date:
[26 April 1832]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0035; Reel 1054
Summary:

Sends letter, inspired by J. von Liebig's paper on separation of metallic oxides, to Annales de Chimie et de Physique. Fears JH's scientist friends may fall victim to the 'terrible malady...now raging' [in Paris].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel12612

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Editors of the Annales de chimie et de physique
Date:
[26] April 1832
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0036; Reel 1054
Summary:

JH's notes on separation of iron oxide and a new procedure for complete purification of uranium.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel595

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[4 May 1832]
Source of text:
RGO 6.804.93
Summary:

Is trying to clean up JH's nebulae observations preparatory to leaving for the Cape; comments on communications from F. G. W. Struve about double stars.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1042

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Wilhelm Struve
Date:
[12 May 1832]
Source of text:
RS:HS 25.3.7
Summary:

Is now committed to the Cape journey, and will be occupied most of the time till then with the reduction of JH's nebulae observations. Comments on several other astronomical matters. [Letter is finished on board a steam packet on the way to Hamburg to visit JH's aunt, Caroline, dated 1832-6-9.]

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8490

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
James South
Date:
[16 May 1832]
Source of text:
RS:HS 16.470 (C: 21.107)
Summary:

Responds to JS's fear [see 1832-5-15] that JH has been preparing an attack on JS's double star observations by explaining in detail and providing extensive evidence that JH has no such intention.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel5984

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Francis Baily
Date:
[17 May 1832]
Source of text:
RS:HS 3.111 & 21.108
Summary:

Would he inform him of the date of the next visitation meeting. Will bring his own catalogue of double stars for the next R.A.S. meeting. Thanks for his paper on proper motion.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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