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From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Adam Sedgwick
Date:
[1856]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.448 (C: RS:HS 23.185)
Summary:

Discusses AS's new book [Synopsis of the Classification of the British Palaeozoic Rocks...]. Wishes to have the completed work sent to him and sends congratulations on its completion. JH's health is improving.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Stanley Jevons
Date:
[1856 or later?]
Source of text:
RS:HS 25.14.16
Summary:

Not aware of any experiments to ascertain the amount of personal error in the estimate of time of a star transit. JH then comments on monetary matters including the value and gold equivalence of sovereigns issued by the Mint.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Unidentified
Date:
[1856 or later]
Source of text:
DMC 695A.885.13
Summary:

A note indicating JH's willingness to say a few words.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Thomas Maclear
Date:
[5 February 1856]
Source of text:
Cape Archives/Maclear Papers File 100
Summary:

Sends regrets over TM's son not passing exam. Tries unsuccessfully to arrange a second testing. Fears war in Europe.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Adam Sedgwick
Date:
[11 February 1856]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.447 (C: RS:HS 23.165)
Summary:

Praises AS's new book [Synopsis of the Classification of the British Palaeozoic Rocks...]. All is well at Collingwood.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Alexander Hamilton-Gordon
Date:
[13 February 1856]
Source of text:
RS:HS 8.149 (C: RS:HS 23.166)
Summary:

Sorry to have given him the trouble over the box; sends the required letter. Unfair of the Times to blame AH for the disasters in the Crimea.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
H. J. Luff[?]
Date:
[14 February 1856]
Source of text:
BostonPubLib Ms.Eng. 196(3)
Summary:

Deals with the computation of a tax matter [regarding Observatory House in Slough?].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Macarthur
Date:
[17 February 1856]
Source of text:
New South Wales State Library
Summary:

JH, having examined the accounts, finds the charges for the medals fit with Leonard C. Wyon's agreement.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
James Booth
Date:
[9 March 1856]
Source of text:
Journal of the Society of Arts, 4 (April 19, 1856), 342
Summary:

Declares his confidence in the certificates of proficiency about to be awarded by the Society of Arts.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
James Booth
Date:
[19 March 1856]
Source of text:
Columbia Univ. Library (ACCS: RS:HS 4.196)
Summary:

Conveys his confidence in the appropriateness of the certificate of proficiency awarded by the Society of Arts to men who have done well on the Society's examination.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
John William Lubbock
Date:
[19 March 1856]
Source of text:
RS:HS 23.167
Summary:

Is sending a letter of support for a neighbor for the position of commander of constabulary about to be established in Kent.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
John Wrottesley
Date:
[28 March 1856]
Source of text:
RS:HS 25.12.2
Summary:

Is able to sit up in a wheel chair only a few hours a day; JH's illness has left him out of the sphere of scientific activity so he is unable to make any useful suggestions about medals.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
6 April [1856]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.331
Summary:

[Reply to GA's [1856-4-6 or earlier] on Mohamet's coffin theory.] Congratulations on GA's son winning a scholarship. JH's health is better, but he cannot walk yet.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[16 April 1856]
Source of text:
RGO 6.376.364
Summary:

A number of options are proposed by JH to help GA solve his problem with the mercury level [see GA's 1856-4-14]; JH is feeling much better but fears he may 'never again be able to walk.'

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Edward Wolstenholme Ward
Date:
[24 April 1856]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.374 (C: 23.168)
Summary:

Happy to hear that [new Sydney mint] is going well. JH confined with painful illness since Mar. 1855; still unable to walk or stand upright without support. Aluminium may be used in coins, but JH doubts it will replace iron in pots and pans. War is ended, but people worry about further Russian aggression.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[24 April 1856]
Source of text:
RGO 6.216.115
Summary:

Has no actinometers available [see GA's 1856-4-23], but tells GA where he can get one; rhapsodizes about the beauty of nature around him, and the silliness of a person.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Mr. Holloway
Date:
[29 April 1856]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.85a
Summary:

Plans to sell JH's property at Upton, including tenement Holloway occupies, to neighbors.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
B. Osborne
Date:
[5 May 1856]
Source of text:
RS:HS 23.169
Summary:

The Admiralty has given a grant for an astronomical expedition to the Peak of Teneriffe, and JH is now providing a list of details that should be observed in such an expedition.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Unidentified
Date:
[5 May 1856]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0733; Reel 1089
Summary:

JH's recommendations to Admiralty regarding experiments to be conducted by expedition to Teneriffe led by C. P. Smyth.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Thomas Andrews
Date:
[12 May 1856]
Source of text:
RS:HS 23.171
Summary:

Formal note of thanks for TA's paper on ozone.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project