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Herschel1677

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Alfred Smee
Date:
[2 April 1845]
Source of text:
RS:HS 16.163
Summary:

About a letter of recommendation JH is preparing for Robert Hunt.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel116

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[3 April 1845]
Source of text:
RGO 6.675.389
Summary:

Wants to know if GA's opinions [see GA's 1845-4-1] are available for public information, or only for JH.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel5363

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Charles Babbage
Date:
[4 April 1845]
Source of text:
RS:HS 2.310
Summary:

Regarding the deed for CB's brother-in-law. Is reading G. W. Leibniz's metaphysical works.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel385

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
1845-4-4 or later
Source of text:
RGO 6.463.325
Summary:

Provides the best values available for dispersion and separation, which will allow GA to calculate what he needs [see GA's 1845-4-4].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

RS-MM-000871

From:
John Frederick William Herschel
To:
John William Lubbock
Date:
6 April 1845
Source of text:
MM/14/131, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

Herschel3481

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
[John William Lubbock]
Date:
[6 April 1845]
Source of text:
RS MM 14.131
Summary:

Discusses procedures that should be followed when the Committee on Physics is summoned to deal with a 'momentous' matter, i.e., the discontinuation of the magnetic observatories.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1124

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Charles Wheatstone
Date:
[6 April 1845]
Source of text:
RS:HS 25.11.6
Summary:

The continuation of magnetic and meteorological observatories is under question, and CW's instrument for observing atmospheric electricity should be part of the discussion.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8694

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Carl Friedrich Gauss
Date:
[10 April 1845]
Source of text:
NSUB Cod.Ms.Gauss 99 (C: RS:HS 22.228)
Summary:

CG having now received the Greenwich and Toronto observations, JH invites CG to write further material for the forthcoming publication.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4035

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Robert Hunt
Date:
[13 April 1845]
Source of text:
George Eastman House, 16.17 (C: RS:HS 22.229)
Summary:

Expresses his pleasure at RH's new position at the Museum of Economic Geology.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel2516

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Adam Sedgwick
Date:
[15 April 1845]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.427 (C: RS:HS 22.230 & draft: RS:HS 15.426)
Summary:

[Robert Chambers's] Vestiges of Creation is shallow and full of errors. Tells AS not to spare it when he reviews it. Discusses various topics including the nebular hypothesis, P. S. Laplace, central heat in gravitation, and the density of planets. Also, the 'nonsensical calculations' of Auguste Comte's astronomy.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1125

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Charles Wheatstone
Date:
[15 April 1845]
Source of text:
RS:HS 25.11.7
Summary:

Makes some amendments in JH's request for information [see JH's 1845-4-6].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel240

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[15 April 1845]
Source of text:
RGO 6.245.569
Summary:

Seeks GA's assistance in solving a puzzle in the mathematics of rotating bodies.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1194

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Richard Taylor
Date:
[16 April 1845]
Source of text:
RS:HS B26.11
Summary:

Is very critical of a series of three foreign memoirs that JH believes certainly should not be published. Concludes with a strange postscript on catalepsy.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel84

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[18 April 1845]
Source of text:
RGO 6.368.679
Summary:

Mostly about the health of JH and his wife, Margaret.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4503

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Henry Smyth
Date:
[18 April 1845]
Source of text:
RS:HS 22.231
Summary:

Sends P. H. L. Boguslawski's address. Asks WS to send J. H. Mädler's chart to P[eter] Stewart.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel12823

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
the London Times
Date:
[19 April 1845]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0230; Reel 1054
Summary:

Responds to recently printed letter by James South. Denies South's assertion and confirms that William Herschel did discover two interior satellites of Saturn with 40-feet reflector telescope in 1789.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3698

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Richard Sheepshanks
Date:
[1845-4-22 or later]
Source of text:
RS:HS 16.33
Summary:

On Francis Baily's titles and on how to get a print with Baily's picture, autograph, and name in regular capitals. Explains remarks he made in a controversy with T. R. Robinson and published in the Athenaeum [Autumn, 1843] about JH's father's telescopes.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel12836

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Thomas Maclear
Date:
[1845-4-22 or later]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0240; Reel 1054
Summary:

Privately acknowledges lack of clarity in William Herschel's report of discovering Saturn's inner rings, but JH was hurt by James South's public refutation of that discovery and by [T. R.] Robinson's abrupt refusal to communicate. Reviews WH's papers to demonstrate falsity of South's claim. Asks TM's opinion.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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