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Herschel7198

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Augustus De Morgan
Date:
[20 March 1867]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.191
Summary:

Comments on mathematical comments AD has sent JH; JH is sorry to see AD has retired from his professorship; comments on the hard winter.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel13404

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Unidentified
Date:
21 [March] 1867
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0636; Reel 1089
Summary:

Received notice to transfer one-fifth of funds from [Mary Anne Babbage's] 1823 marriage settlement to W. H. B. Hollier.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel12906

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Charles Pritchard
Date:
[10 April 1867]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0319; Reel 1054 (Cdraft: RS:HS 25.15.24)
Summary:

JH is busy correcting first proofs of pages on double stars. Thanks for binding JH's star [allineations?]. CP's suggestion [see CP's 1867-3-27] to JH's son Alexander, to collect and edit William Herschel's papers, entails too much work for one editor. JH dreads thought of such work. Doubts CP's claim that WH observed fixed star in Corona.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8700

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
[Mrs. Thomas Romney Robinson]
Date:
[13 April 1867]
Source of text:
Bodleian Library, Oxford
Summary:

Delighted to receive Memoir of Maria Edgeworth. Praises it and expresses thanks for it having been sent. Regards to Dr. Robinson.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8699

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Mrs. Socker[?]
Date:
[13 April 1867]
Source of text:
Bodleian Library, Oxford
Summary:

Delighted to receive Memoir of Maria Edgeworth [ed. by F. A. Edgeworth, 1867]. Praises Edgeworth. Whom should JH thank for this gift?

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8417

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Rudolf Wolf
Date:
[21 April 1867]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.192
Summary:

Thanks RW for sending RW's Mittheilungen and RW's Neue Untersuchungen. Replies to RW's queries about JH's ancestry and about the current state of JH's father's largest reflecting telescope.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7202

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Augustus De Morgan
Date:
[25 April 1867]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.193
Summary:

Comments on AD's theorem [see AD's 1867-4-20].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10642

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Frederick Howlett
Date:
[29 April 1867]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.18 & 24.194
Summary:

Would like FH to study a phenomenon that JH has noticed on the sun's disk and that has no connections with sun-spots.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel862

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Margaret Brodie Herschel
Date:
[29 April 1867]
Source of text:
JHS 4.14
Summary:

About traveling to Halton; JH is finding working on his double star catalogue fairly severe drudgery.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10858

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
H. Hotham
Date:
[2 May 1867]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.209 & 24.195
Summary:

Thank you for his letter. There are no misprints or conflicting statements in his Familiar Lectures. Explains the various points.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8418

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Rudolf Wolf
Date:
[4 May 1867]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.196
Summary:

Thanks RW for sending him a photograph of RW; sends photograph of JH in return.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10644

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Frederick Howlett
Date:
[5 May 1867]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.198
Summary:

Proposes to travel to visit FH next day to observe the sun with him.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel275

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[5 May 1867]
Source of text:
RGO 6.122.177
Summary:

Is assisting in communication between G. G. Stokes and GA, about stereoscopic observation of eclipses; JH is not mobile enough to attend the next Board of Visitors meeting.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel13051

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Gabriel Stokes
Date:
[5 May 1867]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0463 verso; Reel 1055
Summary:

Describes problem with spectral lines in telescope while trying to understand William Huggins's results.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1441

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Gabriel Stokes
Date:
[5 May 1867]
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library 7656/H713 (draft RS:HS 17.66 & C: RS:HS 24.197)
Summary:

Comments on impossibility of increasing the intrinsic illumination of a source with a telescope; how to obtain the spectrum of red flames of the sun.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel276

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[7 May 1867]
Source of text:
RGO 6.122.175
Summary:

A note with G. G. Stokes' letter, which JH forgot to enclose [see JH's 1867-5-5].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1442

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Gabriel Stokes
Date:
[9 May 1867]
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library 7656/H714 (draft RS:HS 17.67 & C: RS:HS 24.199)
Summary:

Believes that expensive telescope wanted by William Huggins is unnecessary for the intended purposes [see GS's 1867-5-3]; JH offers a telescope of his own to R.S.L.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11960

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
J. Melvill
Date:
[10 May 1867]
Source of text:
RS:HS 12.322 & 24.200
Summary:

Does not think Mr. Thornton's pamphlets solve the problem of squaring the circle as the circle is 3/4 of the circumscribed square. Comments further on these theories.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1443

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Gabriel Stokes
Date:
1867-5-12 or earlier
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library 7656/H733
Summary:

Agrees reluctantly to write obituary notice of William Whewell; wishes he had been asked earlier.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1445

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Gabriel Stokes
Date:
[18 May 1867]
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library 7656/H715
Summary:

Comments on the time needed by JH's son [John] to perform observations requested by R.S.L.; thanks for list of tutors [see GS's 1867-5-13].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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