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Herschel12133

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Thomas Maclear
Date:
[3 February 1838]
Source of text:
RS:HS 21.241
Summary:

Urges against carrying up Table Mountain the zenith sector sent to TM to check N. L. Lacaille's measurement of a degree of terrestrial longitude. Comments on JH's skill with precision instruments.

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John Herschel Project

Herschel4581

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Thomas Maclear
Date:
[9 February 1838]
Source of text:
Cape Archives/Maclear Papers File 100
Summary:

Received meteorite specimen. Michael Faraday will conduct analysis. Admiralty agrees to give TM an assistant. Finds a theodolite telescope for Cape Observatory.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1062

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Wilhelm Struve
Date:
[11 February 1838]
Source of text:
RS:HS 25.5.10
Summary:

Pleased with the observations and astronomical literature JH received from FS; JH is packing up for the return to England; comments on causes of variations in stellar magnitude and several other astronomical topics.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8979

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Sir John Bell
Date:
[17 February 1838]
Source of text:
UCT JH Letters A1.4
Summary:

Presents, in response to a memorandum from JB, JH's views on such matters as the administration, staffing, and funding of the Government Free Schools at the Cape of Good Hope.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11233

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Dionysius Lardner
Date:
[28 February 1838]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.124 (C: RS:HS 21.243)
Summary:

Due to his impending departure from the Cape he has had little opportunity of seeing DL's son George. Does not think he will be in a position to write a popular article on his work in the Southern Hemisphere yet awhile. Several errors in his Treatise Astr., which he would like to correct.

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John Herschel Project

Herschel3429

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Samuel Stratford
Date:
[28 February 1838]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.88 (C: RS:HS 21.242)
Summary:

JH, in preparing to leave Cape, thanks WS for having sent Nautical Almanacs to him there. Discusses motions of a comet appearing to move whimsically, the periodical star alpha Hydrae, other stars, and the re-discovery of Saturn's sixth satellite.

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