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From:
Edward Sabine
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1842-7]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.305
Summary:

Sorry [F. W.] Bessel's health is 'so indifferent.' Glad JH is coming to [B.A.A.S. meeting].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[5 July 1842]
Source of text:
RS:HS 4.76
Summary:

About further travel plans, and people FB is meeting as he travels in Britain.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
[Alexander J. B. Hope?]
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[6 July 1842]
Source of text:
RS:HS B27.53
Summary:

A proposal to complete the calculating machine has been made by Charles Babbage, and AH wants JH's opinion of it.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Francis Baily
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[10 July 1842]
Source of text:
RS:HS 3.225
Summary:

Account of the eclipse seen at Pavia.

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:
T. Dyson
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[10 July 1842]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0173.1; Reel 1087
Summary:

Does JH plan to publish 'Treatise on Light' in separate form?

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Thomas John Newbold
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[15 July 1842]
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.121
Summary:

On his last passage down the Red Sea the Captain informed TN of the singular alteration of his chronometers. Comments on this and would like JH's views. Magnetic station at Aden has never been set up and the instruments are still at Bombay. Examined the ancient canal while at Suez. Will be pleased to assist JH in any way.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[16 July 1842]
Source of text:
RS:HS 4.77
Summary:

Thank you note after FB visited Collingwood.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[19 July 1842]
Source of text:
RS:HS 4.78
Summary:

Warm thanks for JH's kind hospitality; some comments about Prussian Order of Merit.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
M. Tunno
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[19 July 1842]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.449
Summary:

Thanks JH for a letter of introduction.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project