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Herschel6433

From:
Richard Christopher Carrington
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[10 March 1858]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.201
Summary:

Mr. Grant has just given him JH's note. Regarding Col. Parres's [?] helioscope.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4588

From:
William Henry Smyth
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[10 March 1858]
Source of text:
RS:HS 16.308
Summary:

Elaborates on JH's questions concerning the Mediterranean. Refers him to Capt. [T. A. B.] Spratt.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1807

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[13 March 1858]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0638.2 (C: RGO 6.694.477)
Summary:

Would support the establishment of Colonial magnetic and meteorological observatories if Edward Sabine were to continue to study the observations made [see GA's 1858-1-29].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel2671

From:
Mary Somerville
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[15 March 1858]
Source of text:
RS:HS 16.362
Summary:

Enjoyed visit of Louisa [Herschel Marshall]. Wants copies of JH's new articles. Is witnessing a solar eclipse, in which half the disc was covered, as she writes.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10128

From:
Robert Grant
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[16 March 1858]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.16
Summary:

Carrington will be communicating with JH regarding Ignatio Porro's instruments. Pleased to hear of the projected new edition of JH's Outlines Astr. Is engaged translating D. F. J. Arago's Astronomy. Points out omissions in this work. Comments on the planet Neptune.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7083

From:
Augustus De Morgan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[20 March 1858]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.311
Summary:

Regarding the recent eclipse of the sun. Has not been able to guess all his riddles.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10129

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Robert Grant
Date:
[21 March 1858]
Source of text:
RS:HS 23.228
Summary:

About viewing the solar eclipse, and the many errors in G. B. Airy's Lectures.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel9467

From:
Few & Co.
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[22 March 1858]
Source of text:
RS:HS 7.213
Summary:

Have looked up the deeds and will make a schedule of them.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel9196

From:
William Whewell
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[25 March 1858]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0572
Summary:

Expresses his views, generally supportive, on the question of the continuation of magnetic observations at various colonial stations.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4244

From:
Henry Anthony Jeffreys
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[26 March 1858]
Source of text:
Harvard: Houghton AAH 67m-67 (107)
Summary:

Asks JH to sign a petition to allow a parishioner to marry his late wife's sister.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel9506

From:
Robert FitzRoy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[8 April 1858]
Source of text:
RS:HS 7.251
Summary:

Sending some publications to show the kind of work he is doing. Has read JH's Admiralty Manual and congratulates him on its authority. Has been reading J. P. Espy's Fourth Report. Note of W. J. S. Pullen's soundings in the South Atlantic.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel9507

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Robert FitzRoy
Date:
[10 April 1858]
Source of text:
RS:HS 23.229
Summary:

Comments on wind and current charts JH has received from RF.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel14412

From:
Edward Sabine
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[16 April 1858]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0525.1; Reel 1093
Summary:

Replies to specific requests by committee for summary of benefits from research in terrestrial magnetism and meteorology and for ES's opinion on continuance of observatories. [JH annotation: Routing list to G. B. Airy, George Peacock, and William Whewell.]

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel14413

From:
Edward Sabine
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[21 April 1858]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0525.2; Reel 1093
Summary:

Sends proofs of editor's notes from vol. 4 of [Elizabeth J. Sabine's] translation of Alexander von Humboldt's] Cosmos. Assumes that JH and magnetic committee members all have copies of 'Introduction' to vol. 3 of Toronto observations. Managed to clear up 'mystification' in J. B. Biot's account of pendulum experiments.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10563

From:
Henry Holland
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1858 or later]-4-23
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.440
Summary:

Comments on JH's paper on Sensorial Vision (1858). Covered some of this ground in HH's own book, Mental Physiology (1852).

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8165

From:
Joseph Wolff
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[23 April 1858]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.432
Summary:

After JW's 1843-45 mission to find Charles Stoddart and Arthur Conolly in Bukhara [Uzbek], JW was given poor parish in Dorsetshire. Attempting to raise £1,000 for new church and school. Would JH contribute?

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3114

From:
Andres Poey
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[24 April 1858]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.171
Summary:

Has read with much pleasure JH's dissertation on meteorology published in the Encyclopaedia Britannica. Requests an English version. Sends several memoires on meteorology. Regrets not being able to send a complete set. Asks JH to send other works for the Observatory of Havana.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel14414

From:
Edward Sabine
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[27 April 1858]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0525.3; Reel 1093
Summary:

ES's paper on magnetic observatories in colonies is same as 'Introduction' to vol. 3 of Toronto observations. Publisher has delayed [Elizabeth J. Sabine's] translation of vol. 4 of Cosmos; please send JH's copy of 'Editor's Notes' to other members of magnetic committee. J. B. Biot intentionally subordinated English pendulum experiments to French experiments, and Alexander von Humboldt was misled.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel2382

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Edward Sabine
Date:
[28 April 1858]
Source of text:
RS:HS 23.230
Summary:

Must hold to 1/290 as measure of ellipticity. Committee agrees to recommend continuance of magnetic observations if JH will continue to do what he has done in the past.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3248

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
James David Forbes
Date:
1858-5[?]
Source of text:
St. Andrews 49
Summary:

Asks if JF's article on glaciers is for Encyclopaedia Britannica. Requests that JF change a computational error in his copy of JH's article on meteorology.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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