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Herschel12968

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Editor of Saturday Review
Date:
[1865]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0382; Reel 1054
Summary:

Passionately protests bill before Parliament for compulsory adoption of French metric system, 'a piece of French national vanity.'

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel2567

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Selwyn
Date:
[1 January 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.80
Summary:

Thanks WS for his Iliad translation. JH has just finished Book 3 of his own translation of the Iliad.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3350

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Unidentified
Date:
[1865]
Source of text:
RS Sa.684
Summary:

Fragment of a letter discussing diffraction, JH's son's journey to observe eclipse and strong polarization of sun's corona, evidence of vast solar atmosphere.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel943

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
John Herschel (son)
Date:
[2] January 1865
Source of text:
JHS 6.59
Summary:

Discusses at length the means of calculating the mean daily rainfall in India, and comments on son John's work in geodesy.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11539

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Charles Thomas Longley
Date:
[3 January 1865]
Source of text:
unknown
Summary:

Has received the notice of the meeting, but regrets his ill health will prevent his attendance at the meeting.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel896

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
John Herschel (son)
Date:
[9 January 1865]
Source of text:
JHS 5.16
Summary:

Works out the derivation for a mathematical problem, and JH suggests that son John should use this derivation in his paper; it is christening day for William, son of John's sister Caroline. [Also included is a one page letter of family news from sister Julia.]

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel12945

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
John Ryall
Date:
[10 January 1865]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0358; Reel 1054 (C: RS:HS 25.15.21)
Summary:

At JR's request [see JR's 1865-1-7], attests to merits of late George Boole as mathematician, in support of petition for government pension for Boole's widow.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3193

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
[R.S.L. Council]
Date:
[12 January 1865]
Source of text:
RS RR.5.116
Summary:

Reports on H. G. Hennessey's paper [R.S.L. Proceedings, 13, 312-] on synchronous distribution of temperature over earth's surface. Feels bewildered by paper, and believes it could be condensed.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel13542

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
[Sir] Edward Ryan
Date:
[13 January 1865]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0765.6; Reel 1089
Summary:

Encloses published letter of 20 Dec. 1864 from JH to editors of Philosophical Magazine and Journal concerning Charles Babbage, who 'revived this miserable subject' of 1826 dispute between W. H. Wollaston and Humphry Davy regarding Babbage's candidacy for R.S.L. secretaryship.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel2974

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Adolphe Quetelet
Date:
[21 January 1865]
Source of text:
Académie belgique: #37 (Transcription inc: #38)
Summary:

Lists works received. Has been suffering severely from bronchitic attacks. Is translating Iliad into hexameter verse.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11517

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Sir Charles Lyell
Date:
[29 January 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.430 & 24.83
Summary:

Sending a lump of a substance quarried near Edenderry; has found some very similar in a quarry of his own. Can send some more specimens. Congratulations on his Baronetcy. Has been prostrated with bronchitis.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel9225

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Whewell
Date:
[29 January 1865]
Source of text:
TC, Camb. Add. Ms.a.207116 (C: RS:HS 24.82)
Summary:

Sends Book XIV of JH's Iliad translation. Fears he may not live to finish it and may not find a publisher. Glorious winter in England. Son William and wife have arrived in Calcutta.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6859

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Warren de La Rue
Date:
[31 January 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.167 & 24.84
Summary:

Returns the certificates duly signed and also Angelo Secchi's letter, which he was pleased to see. Elaborates on the possible causes of James Nasmyth's 'willow leaves.'

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1502

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Sir Charles Lyell
Date:
[3 February 1865]
Source of text:
APS B.D25.L.6 (C: RS:HS 24:85)
Summary:

Comments on the revolution of the apsides of the earth's orbit and its effect on glacier theory; further comments on the earth pyramids of Botzen [see CL's 1865-1-31], and associated phenomena.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3514

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Phillipp Ludwig von Seidel
Date:
[5 February 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.186 (C 2pp: 24.86)
Summary:

PS's results on light and magnitude of stars agree with JH's results at the Cape. Comments on PS's research on light of planets.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1503

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
James Croll
Date:
[6 February 1865]
Source of text:
APS B.D25.L.7; draft: RS:HS 5.300 & C: 24.87-8
Summary:

In response to comments in a paper by JC, JH writes to establish his priority with respect to the significance of the revolution of the apsides of the earth's orbit and the eccentricity of the earth's orbit in affecting temperatures on the earth. JH had spelled this out in an 1830 paper for the Transactions of the Geological Society, and repeated it in his Outlines Astr.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1504

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Sir Charles Lyell
Date:
[6 February 1865]
Source of text:
APS B.D25.L.8 (C: RS:HS 24.89)
Summary:

Writes to CL about JH's response to James Croll's paper. Includes an extract from JH's letter to James Croll [see JH's 1865-2-6].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8560

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
[Walter] White
Date:
[10 February 1865]
Source of text:
BostonPubLib Ms. Eng. 204
Summary:

Asks WW to check the R.S.L. council book for 23 Nov. 1826 to inform JH as to who was present.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel12584

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
W[illiam] J. Millar
Date:
[11 February 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.90
Summary:

On the significance of the full moon and its influence on the weather.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1268

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Philosophical Magazine
Date:
[12 February 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS B27.34
Summary:

Attempts further clarification of the matter discussed in JH's 1864-12-20 to the P.M. Reiterates JH's recollection of a conversation between W. H. Wollaston and Humphry Davy, which JH had described in a letter [see JH's 1826-11-25 to Francis Baily] and which JH refers to in his letter of resignation to Davies Gilbert [see JH's 1827-6-27], which latter letter JH quotes.

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