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From:
John Phillips
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[19 October 1840]
Source of text:
RS:HS B26.3
Summary:

Informs JH that the B.A.A.S. has placed him on a committee to provide two actinometers for observing high in the Alps.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
John Phillips
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[19 October 1840]
Source of text:
RS:HS B26.4
Summary:

Informs JH that the B.A.A.S. has placed him on a committee to study the possibility of using balloon ascents to study the upper atmosphere.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
John Phillips
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[19 October 1840]
Source of text:
RS:HS B26.5
Summary:

Informs JH that the B.A.A.S. has again placed him on the committee to supervise the translation and publication of foreign scientific memoirs.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
John Phillips
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[19 October 1840]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0428.6; Reel 1093
Summary:

JH, G. B. Airy, and Thomas Henderson are appointed to oversee the publication of the reductions of the calculations of N. L. Lacaille's stars. They will have £184 at their disposal.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
John Phillips
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[19 October 1840]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0428.7; Reel 1093
Summary:

JH, William Whewell, George Peacock, Humphrey Lloyd, and Edward Sabine are appointed by the B.A.A.S. to study systems of simultaneous magnetical and meteorological observations. They will be granted £50.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
John Phillips
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1 July 1841]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0428.8; Reel 1093
Summary:

Asks whether JH will be prepared to present the committee report on N. L. Lacaille's stars at the B.A.A.S. meeting on 29 July.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
John Phillips
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1 July 1841]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0428.9; Reel 1093
Summary:

Asks whether JH will be prepared to give the committee report on systems of simultaneous magnetical and meteorological observations at the B.A.A.S. meeting on 29 July.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
John Phillips
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[10 September 1841]
Source of text:
RS:HS B26.6
Summary:

JH continues to serve on the committee to supervise and translate foreign scientific memoirs [see JP's 1840-10-19].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
John Phillips
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[10 September 1841]
Source of text:
RS:HS B26.7
Summary:

Informs JH that the B.A.A.S. has placed him on a committee to conduct experiments by capture balloon on the atmosphere.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
John Phillips
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[10 September 1841]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0428.10; Reel 1093
Summary:

JH, G. B. Airy, and Thomas Henderson are appointed to oversee the publication of the reductions of the calculations of N. L. Lacaille's stars. They will have £105 at their disposal.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
John Phillips
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[10 September 1841]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0428.11; Reel 1093
Summary:

JH, William Whewell, George Peacock, Humphrey Lloyd, and Edward Sabine are appointed by the B.A.A.S. to study systems of simultaneous magnetical and meteorological observations. They will be granted £100.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
John Phillips
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[10 May 1842]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0428.12; Reel 1093
Summary:

Asks whether JH will be prepared to give the committee report on systems of simultaneous magnetical and meteorological observations at the B.A.A.S. meeting on 23 June.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
John Phillips
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[10 May 1842]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0428.13; Reel 1093
Summary:

Asks whether JH will be prepared to present the committee report on N. L. Lacaille's stars at the B.A.A.S. meeting on 23 June.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
John Phillips
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[10 May 1842]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 4/9.9 verso; Reel 7
Summary:

Will JH be prepared to present report on 'Nomenclature of Stars' at Manchester meeting in June?

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
John Phillips
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[10 July 1842]
Source of text:
RS:HS B26.8
Summary:

Informs JH that the B.A.A.S. has place him on a committee to conduct experiments by capture balloon on the atmosphere.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
John Phillips
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[10 July 1842]
Source of text:
RS:HS B26.9
Summary:

Informs JH that the B.A.A.S. has placed him on a committee to supervise the translation and publication of foreign scientific memoirs.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
John Phillips
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[10 July 1842]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0428.14; Reel 1093
Summary:

JH, William Whewell, George Peacock, Humphrey Lloyd, and Edward Sabine are appointed by the B.A.A.S. to study systems of simultaneous magnetical and meteorological observations. They will be granted £89.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
John Phillips
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[17 July 1843]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0428.15; Reel 1093
Summary:

The committee report on simultaneous magnetical and meteorological observations will be read at the B.A.A.S. meeting in Cork on 17 Aug.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
John Phillips
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[10 October 1843]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 4/9.10 verso; Reel 7
Summary:

Names committee, including JH, to superintend 'translation & publication of scientific memoirs.' [Printed note regarding] grants of money.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
John Phillips
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[10 October 1844]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0428.16; Reel 1093
Summary:

JH appointed to a committee with G. B. Airy and William Stratford on the reduction of the calculations of N. L. Lacaille's stars.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project