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Herschel2512

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Adam Sedgwick
Date:
[3 August 1833]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.422 (C: RS:HS 21.144)
Summary:

Received £500 from J. C. Spencer (Lord Althorp) for reduction under the direction of G. B. Airy of earlier planetary observations. Althorp conferred with Lord Grey. Conjectures possible need of a larger grant.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel5989

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Francis Baily
Date:
[3 August 1833]
Source of text:
RS:HS 3.115 & 21.143
Summary:

Has received a note from J. C. Spencer (Lord Althorp) stating that a grant of £500 is available for them [R.A.S.?]. He has acknowledged it.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel12477

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Hugh Percy (3rd Duke of Northumberland)
Date:
[9 August 1833]
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.343 & 21.145
Summary:

JH has written to James South again [see JH's 1833-7-8] but has received no answer; is suggesting that it may well be that [R. A.] Cauchoix, the French optician, can supply object glasses as good as those James South has.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8524

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
D. François J. Arago
Date:
[11 August 1833]
Source of text:
Académie des sciences (Paris)
Summary:

[Extract from a letter of this date to James South:] Tells FA that FA's magnetic experiments have been successfully repeated in England by Peter Barlow, Samuel Christie, Charles Babbage, and JH. Gives details. Publication in process.

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John Herschel Project

Herschel1

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[15 August 1833]
Source of text:
RGO 6.157.162 (C: RS:HS 25.3.16)
Summary:

Encourages GA to consider favorably the offer of Hugh Percy [Duke of Northumberland] of donating a telescope to Cambridge Observatory.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8667

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Thomas Henderson
Date:
[15 August 1833]
Source of text:
NatLibScot MS.3134, no.51
Summary:

Arranges to meet TH, probably at Slough, and also to get a barometer from TH.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8525

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
D. François J. Arago
Date:
[19 August 1833]
Source of text:
Académie des sciences (Paris)
Summary:

Offers a paper ['Note sur la manière d'agir de l'acide nitrique sur le fer,' Annales de chimie, 54 (1833), 87-94] for publication in Annales de chimie. Informs FA how to correspond with JH while JH is at the Cape.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7943

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Charles Wheatstone
Date:
[21 August 1833]
Source of text:
RS:HS 21.146
Summary:

Invites CW to Slough to demonstrate CW's 'elegant experiments on light & sound.' Will need time to get JH's electric machine in order. Asks for copy of CW's paper on Jew's harp.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel2

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[27 August 1833]
Source of text:
RGO 6.157.164
Summary:

A note along with letters from R. A. Cauchoix, the telescope maker, and [J. C. Spencer,] Lord Althorp, about the B.A.A.S.; JH is trying to clean up observation reports before leaving for the Cape.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[29 August 1833]
Source of text:
RGO 6.157.167
Summary:

Further about the telescope to be donated by Hugh Percy [see JH's 1833-8-15], along with a promise that JH will write to R. A. Cauchoix about the telescope.

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John Herschel Project
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