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From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Francis Baily
Date:
[1842-3?]
Source of text:
RS:HS 3.285
Summary:

Proposes to come to London to visit him. Has just received the proofs of Robert Maine's paper on parallax.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Caroline Lucretia Herschel
Date:
9] March [1842
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0587.4; Reel 1058
Summary:

Remarks that he is 50 years old, and that he and CH have 'seen something of that odd and most changeable compound called Human Nature.'

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[11 March 1842]
Source of text:
RGO 6.368.646
Summary:

Arranging a visit for GA to Collingwood.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Robert Hunt
Date:
[15 March 1842]
Source of text:
George Eastman House, 12.17
Summary:

Believes that the operative rays in JH's thermographic process are neither 'calorific' nor 'thermal'.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[18 March 1842]
Source of text:
RGO 6.368.649
Summary:

Final arrangements for GA's visit to JH [see GA's 1842-3-15].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Roderick Impey Murchison
Date:
[20 March 1842]
Source of text:
Geological Society
Summary:

Responds to RM's request for an analysis of the cause of the difference in climate between Orenburg and Catherineburg in Russia. Agrees that Geological Society can print JH's Alpine memoir.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Lassell
Date:
[20 March 1842]
Source of text:
RS:HS 22.114
Summary:

Comments on WL's finding a sixth star in the trapezium of Orion [see WL's 1842-3-10]; lists other catalogues that identify that star.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Unidentified
Date:
[25 March 1842]
Source of text:
BostonPubLib Ms. Eng. 204
Summary:

Appreciates receiving the curious fossil, even though JH knows little of such matters.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project