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Herschel11492

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
John William Lubbock
Date:
[1845-3]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.405 (C: RS:HS 25.13.11)
Summary:

Has received the books. Began with Karl Holtzmann's and finds the reasoning at fault. Comments on this. [Marked 'not sent.']

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel9139

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Whewell
Date:
[1845-3?]
Source of text:
TC, Camb. Add. Ms.a.20763 (C: RS:HS 22.224)
Summary:

Is sending a 'Memoir' [on Francis Baily?] to WW. JH and wife but not daughter Caroline will be at Trinity Lodge in June. Comments on a paper by William Hopkins on glaciers.]

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3695

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Richard Sheepshanks
Date:
[7 March 1845]
Source of text:
RS:HS 16.39 (C: RS:HS 25.9.18)
Summary:

Will help with the dispute between [W. R.] Dawes and [George] Bishop, provided certain things are understood by all the parties involved; enumerates these. Will speak as discretely as he can with [W. S.] Stratford.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8749

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Parsons (Lord Rosse)
Date:
[9 March 1845]
Source of text:
Rosse Papers K2.2
Summary:

Thanks WP for sending drawings and descriptions of various nebulae observed with WP's giant reflecting telescope. Comments on various nebulae. Expresses the idea that some planetary nebulae are 'hollow elliptical or spherical shells with or without a central Star.'

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel9140

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Whewell
Date:
[10 March 1845]
Source of text:
TC, Camb. Add. Ms.a.20764 (C: RS:HS 22.225)
Summary:

On behalf of Lady Herschel, JH thanks WW for the copy of WW's book [Indications of the Creator]. Chides WW for having written an elementary work.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3776

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Caroline Lucretia Herschel
Date:
[13 March 1845]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0590.3; Reel 1058
Summary:

Wishes CH a happy 96th birthday. Reports that when Margaret Herschel's brother John Stewart was in Egypt, he saw a comet. JH remarks that 'there seems to be no end of the comets.'

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel12902

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Henry Chichele Plowden
Date:
[14 March 1845]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0314; Reel 1054
Summary:

Encourages board of directors to pay for publication of magnetic and meteorological observations made at four H.E.I.C. observatories. Names countries that participated in global survey.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7326

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
John William Draper
Date:
[15 March 1845]
Source of text:
RS:HS 22.226
Summary:

Comments on writings of JD on the chemistry of plants [letter completed 1845-5-7].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel83

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[16 March 1845]
Source of text:
RGO 6.368.678
Summary:

Has been informed that William Parson's telescope resolves all the nebulae in JH's catalogue into stars.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1944

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Robert [Peel?]
Date:
[18 March 1845]
Source of text:
DMC 695A.885.23
Summary:

Is pleased that a bill [JH's comments seem to hint at corporal punishment for offenders] is to be brought to Parliament [see JH's 1845-2-10].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8317

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
[Sir] James Grahame
Date:
[1845-3-20 or later]
Source of text:
RS:HS 19.122b
Summary:

C. P. Smyth, chief assistant at Cape observatory for past nine years, is capable observer and qualified to succeed Thomas Henderson as Royal Astronomer at Edinburgh.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1123

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Charles Wheatstone
Date:
[20 March 1845]
Source of text:
RS:HS 25.11.5
Summary:

Recommends Robert Hunt to fill the professorship at King's College, left vacant by the death of John F. Daniell.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8374

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Unidentified
Date:
1845-[3-28 or later]
Source of text:
RS:HS 19.172d
Summary:

Testimonial to C. P. Smyth's dependability and competence as an astronomer.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4492

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Henry Smyth
Date:
[30 March 1845]
Source of text:
RS:HS 22.227
Summary:

Has written recommendation supporting C. P. Smyth for position of Astronomer Royal for Scotland. Suggests that C. P. Smyth, after returning to Britain, seek a teacher to help overcome his stutter. Encloses letter from P. H. L. Boguslawski for WS to present to R.A.S.

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