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Herschel3587

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Henry Clifton Sorby
Date:
[11 September 1856]
Source of text:
RS:HS 23.179
Summary:

Thanks HS for response to and explains further JH's letter to John Tyndall regarding explanation of origin of geological slaty cleavage.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4109

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Henry Smyth
Date:
[11 September 1856]
Source of text:
RS:HS 23.180
Summary:

Success of C. P. Smyth's Teneriffe expedition pleases JH; anxious for declination of nebulae taken from high altitudes. Upset over G. J. Stoney's reproduction of JH's collimating telescope without giving him credit.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7053

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Augustus De Morgan
Date:
[12 September 1856]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.289 & 23.181
Summary:

Thought that AD's last letter was supposed to be written in verse. Hopes his injury will soon improve. Does not recollect any habit of Humphry Davy rubbing his hands together. A professor, [G. J.?] Stoney, has re-invented JH's collimating telescope and not improved it.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1113

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Gabriel Stokes
Date:
[12 October 1856]
Source of text:
RS:HS 25.10.11
Summary:

Acknowledges receipt of a paper by [William] Pole, which JH will review.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11615

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Francis Charles Knowles
Date:
[16 October 1856]
Source of text:
RS:HS 23.182
Summary:

Thinks that aluminum coating on telescope mirrors may work [see FK's 1856-10-9]; also suggests looking into flouric glass containing aluminum for lenses of low dispersion power.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1114

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Gabriel Stokes
Date:
[9 November 1856]
Source of text:
RS:HS 25.10.12
Summary:

Needs more time for reviewing Pole's paper [see JH's 1856-10-12].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7056

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Augustus De Morgan
Date:
[11 November 1856]
Source of text:
RS:HS 23.183
Summary:

Comments on the state of JH's health, color blindness, missing R.A.S. Notices, and decimal coinage.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1115

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Gabriel Stokes
Date:
[14 November 1856]
Source of text:
RS:HS 25.10.13a
Summary:

Is sending in JH's report on Pole's paper [see JH's 1856-11-9].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1116

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Gabriel Stokes
Date:
[14 November 1856]
Source of text:
RS:HS 25.10.13b
Summary:

Thanks the council of the R.S.L. through GS for the gift of a portrait of Nicholas Copernicus.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel12680

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
James Booth
Date:
[2 December 1856]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0101; Reel 1054
Summary:

Compliments JB on publication of 'Trigonometry of the Parabola.' Recalls JH's papers on catenaries.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11177

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Francis Charles Knowles
Date:
[6 December 1856]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.67 & 23.184
Summary:

Would be inclined to try a combination of cryolite and silex to obtain a glass. Comments on his process for decomposing alumina by cyanide of sodium. Sorry to see that FK uses the current forms of chemical notation.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3151

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
James David Forbes
Date:
1856[?]-12-11
Source of text:
St. Andrews 109
Summary:

Letter of introduction for the Drs. Hermann and Robert Schlagentweit, whose scientific interests parallel JF's.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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