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From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Adolphe Quetelet
Date:
n.d.
Source of text:
Académie belgique: #29
Summary:

Tells AQ of his daughters's fevers. Rejoices in the power of science to distract him temporarily from worries. Hopes to complete his Catalogus generalis nebularum by end of R.S.L. session.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Adolphe Quetelet
Date:
[29 May 1827]
Source of text:
Académie belgique: #1
Summary:

Received letters of 8 Dec. through [Charles] Babbage, including interesting work on statistical returns for Netherlands. Rejoices at prospect of new observatory in Brussels. Promises to do his utmost to help. Honored to be correspondent of Academy of Brussels. Requests AQ address further letters to JH as 'President of Astronomical Society.'

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Adolphe Quetelet
Date:
[23 October 1828]
Source of text:
DMC 695A.885.10
Summary:

A letter of introduction to AQ on behalf of John Franklin [famous explorer of the Northwest Passage].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Adolphe Quetelet
Date:
[10 May 1830]
Source of text:
Académie belgique: #2 (fragment (French) Académie belgique: #3)
Summary:

Tells AQ of 'negligent inattention' regarding Belgium's instruments. Has extracted promise from [William?] Simms that the equatorial should be finished by Christmas and mural circle within the following year. Mentions seeing Colonel Blake and [G. P.] Dandelin. Regrets [P. F.] Verhulst's illness. Discusses lichen.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
John Herschel
To:
Adolphe Quetelet
Date:
19 Dec 1831
Source of text:
Correspondance Mathématique et Physique de l'Observatoire de Bruxelles, Tome VII, 1832
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Adolphe Quetelet
Date:
[19 December 1831]
Source of text:
Académie belgique: #4
Summary:

Apologizes for being poor correspondent. Interested in AQ's idea of taking magnets along on trips. JH used to bring his barometer. Is busy reducing sweeps. Has little time for chemistry and optics. Discusses Borax. Has worked with orbits of double stars. Mentions Mrs. Somerville's Celestial Mechanics.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Adolphe Quetelet
Date:
[27 June 1832]
Source of text:
Académie belgique: #5
Summary:

Requests that AQ forward letter to London explaining JH's delay in returning home. Promises to send latest paper on orbits of double stars. Mentions [Wilhelm] Struve's confirmation of data. States that [Wilhelm] Olbers is dying. [H. C.] Schumacher is recovering.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Adolphe Quetelet
Date:
[12 November 1833]
Source of text:
Académie belgique: #6
Summary:

Addresses last words before departing to Cape. Informs AQ that results concerning absorption of light will be in next London and Edinburgh Philosophical Journal. One will be sent to AQ. Reminds AQ of promise to write JH at Cape.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Adolphe Quetelet
Date:
[8 June 1837]
Source of text:
Académie belgique: #9 (ACCS: RS:HS 25.5.7)
Summary:

Expresses regret for not writing earlier. Thanks AQ for meteorological observations. Has complete series of observations from March 1835 to December 1836. Thanks AQ for reports on papers sent. Will depart in early 1838 and requests duplicates of all observations sent: one to England, one to the Cape. Apprises AQ of JH's work on double stars and nebulae.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Adolphe Quetelet
Date:
[3 September 1837]
Source of text:
Académie belgique: #10
Summary:

Attached circular from Meteorological Committee of South African Literary and Philosophical Institution stating a change from 36 to 24 hours of hourly observation at solstices and equinoxes. Letter to AQ thanks for great work and requests AQ continue.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Adolphe Quetelet
Date:
[25 October 1838]
Source of text:
Académie belgique: #12
Summary:

Thanks for duplicates of horary observations. Requests that AQ and his associates cease them after December 1838. Questions 'whether any and what' corrections are applied to observations. Has successfully seen second satellite of Saturn.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Adolphe Quetelet
Date:
[15 November 1838]
Source of text:
Académie belgique: #11
Summary:

Thanks AQ for meteorological observations for September 1838 and other materials sent. Singles 12 and 13 November as extraordinarily clear. Observed a 'paucity of shooting stars' and an Aurora Borealis.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Adolphe Quetelet
Date:
[29? June? 1839]
Source of text:
Académie belgique: #13
Summary:

JH's brother-in-law John Stewart, who is delivering this letter, seeks admission to a printing establishment. Asks AQ to aid JS. Lists recently received letters. Glad that AQ has [C. F.] Gauss's apparatus. Discusses an experiment in photography.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Adolphe Quetelet
Date:
[1840-1]
Source of text:
Académie belgique: #16
Summary:

Herschelian Telescope Song in English and Latin, translated by [T. I. M.?] Forster into Latin. Requiem of 40-foot reflector sung at New Year's Eve 1839-40.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Adolphe Quetelet
Date:
[20 July 1841]
Source of text:
Académie belgique: #14
Summary:

Will not attend B.A.A.S. meeting at Plymouth. Invites AQ to visit, preferably before 29 July, the date of the meeting. Sends thanks to [P. F.] Verhulst for elliptic functions.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Adolphe Quetelet
Date:
[3 December 1841]
Source of text:
Académie belgique: #15 (Adraft: RS:HS 14.229 & C: RS:HS 22.103)
Summary:

Discusses advantages and disadvantages of 24 versus 36 hour series in meteorological observations. R.S.L. officially endorses 24 hours, but AQ should continue 36 hours if best for him. Does not possess the Comptes rendus of French Institute and cannot therefore see No. 413. Will attempt to procure sight of it. Asks AQ to return [P. F.] Verhulst's work to him. Expresses respect for AQ's work. Asks for understanding if JH does not answer every letter promptly.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Adolphe Quetelet
Date:
[29 April 1842]
Source of text:
Académie belgique: #17
Summary:

Stresses importance of development and phases of periodic phenomena on earth's surface. Magnitudes of stars are the only observations JH is doing. Asks for help in planning trip on continent for three of his daughters and their governess.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Adolphe Quetelet
Date:
[19 May 1842]
Source of text:
Académie belgique: #18
Summary:

Thanks for assistance in preparing trip. JH's daughters will probably not stay in Brussels long. Mentions his first engraving for Cape observations of nebulae is to be engraved this very day. Three quarters of his reductions of the southern sweeps are completed.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Adolphe Quetelet
Date:
[11 February 1844]
Source of text:
Académie belgique: #19 (draft Académie belgique: #20)
Summary:

Will attempt to arrange publication and reception of AQ's work in England. Grieves that AQ has suffered attacks because of his zeal in meteorological observations.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Adolphe Quetelet
Date:
[5 December 1844]
Source of text:
Académie belgique: #21
Summary:

Requests information on behalf of the Magnetic and Meteorological Committee of the B.A.A.S. Desires AQ's assessment of past achievements by 1845-3-10. Lists works to be forwarded before end of year.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project