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SOMERVILLE296

From:
John Herschel
To:
William Somerville
Date:
26 Mar 1848
Source of text:
HS 16.408, RS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse

Herschel2715

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Somerville
Date:
[26 March 1848]
Source of text:
RS:HS 16.408 (C: RS:HS 23.19)
Summary:

Will use rock salt to study heat spots. Discusses views of [Macedonio] Melloni regarding solar heat. If England can avoid the mistakes of her neighbors, she will enjoy a great triumph.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3746

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Richard Sheepshanks
Date:
27?] March [1848
Source of text:
RS:HS 16.88 (C: RS:HS 25.9.58)
Summary:

Read enclosure and judge what changes it will necessitate regarding 'S.'s [H. C. Schumacher?] position'. Wrote to 'S.' to tell him that as far as JH is concerned, JH is ready to act on any suggestion 'S' may make regarding the king.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8372

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
[William Radcliffe Birt]
Date:
[1848-4?]
Source of text:
RS:HS 19.171
Summary:

Returned [WB's] manuscript with Admiralty notes last week. Concerned, because postal service lost C. R. Darwin's manuscript when JH returned it.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8330

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
[William Radcliffe Birt]
Date:
[3 April 1848]
Source of text:
RS:HS 19.133
Summary:

Received [WB's] packet. JH has influenza, will read manuscript after recovery.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3130

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Rowan Hamilton
Date:
[3 April 1848]
Source of text:
TCD 1493:424
Summary:

Wonderingly admires WH's quaternions. Lady Herschel has not yet thanked Eliza Hamilton (WH's sister) for the poetry because of serious illness. Except for influenza, would wish WH's son to visit for Easter. Mentions 'political extravaganzas.'

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel2529

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Adam Sedgwick
Date:
[5 April 1848]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.438 (C: RS:HS 23.20)
Summary:

Family has been ill. Discusses possibilities for the formation of the sun and their effects on the law of area and the nebular hypothesis.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel391

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[5 April 1848]
Source of text:
RGO 6.9.204
Summary:

Willing to let GA choose the best objective lens [see GA's 1848-4-5]; then JH offers another possibility; all are ill at Collingwood.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1126

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Charles Wheatstone
Date:
[9 April 1848]
Source of text:
RS:HS 25.11.8
Summary:

Asks for CW's contribution to the Admiralty's scientific manual.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11310

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Henry Liddell
Date:
[21 April 1848]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.215 & 23.21
Summary:

Regrets he cannot attend the meeting to lay the stone of the new lecture room, nor can he take an active part in the lectures due to an attack of influenza. Would like his name added to the ordinary members [of the Slough Mechanics Institute].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6978

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Augustus De Morgan
Date:
[24 April 1848]
Source of text:
RS:HS 23.22
Summary:

Organizational matters related to R.A.S.; intrigued by AD's partial differential.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel2531

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Adam Sedgwick
Date:
[25 April 1848]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.440
Summary:

Says the family will arrive at Norwich on 16 or 17 May.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6979

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Augustus De Morgan
Date:
[25 April 1848]
Source of text:
RS:HS 23.23
Summary:

About authorship of an encyclopedia article, meeting arrangements, and the mathematical cleverness of his son William.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6982

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Augustus De Morgan
Date:
1848-5
Source of text:
RS:HS 23.24
Summary:

Arrangements for meeting with AD.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6540

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Edward Joshua Cooper
Date:
[1 May 1848]
Source of text:
RS:HS 23.25
Summary:

Congratulates EC on 'Thetis' [proposed name for asteroid Metis]; J. R. Hind has discovered a new star.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[6 May 1848]
Source of text:
RGO 6.160.32
Summary:

Does not believe that GA's proposal [see GA's 1848-5-4] will work.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[8 May 1848]
Source of text:
RGO 6.160.34
Summary:

Apologizes for having questioned GA's proposal [see GA's 1848-5-6], which is very good and should work well.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8559

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
John Taylor, F.R.S.
Date:
[11 May 1848]
Source of text:
BostonPubLib Ms.Acc. 68 (ACCS: RS:HS 19.134 & RS:HS 23.26)
Summary:

Received JT's letters regarding Francesco De Vico's possession of R. A. Cauchoix's object-glass. Will follow JT's example in this delicate matter and withhold judgment.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel9634

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
John Forbes, D.D.
Date:
[16] May [1848]
Source of text:
RS:HS 22.315
Summary:

Extensive comments on JF's mathematical paper [see JF's 1847-3-13].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3748

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Richard Sheepshanks
Date:
16] May [1848
Source of text:
RS:HS 16.90 (C: RS:HS 25.9.57)
Summary:

Is leaving for Norwich to return on the 25th. Leave the forms with [John] Williams and JH will sign them. Will leave his letters to have the R.A.S. seal affixed. [Thomas] Taylor has died; can RS tell him who is likely to 'offer for the place' [Madras Observatory] and what its 'appointments' are.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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