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Herschel164

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[2 November 1846]
Source of text:
RGO 6.676.459
Summary:

A committee meeting is being called [see JH's 1846-10-22].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel359

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[2 November 1846]
Source of text:
RGO 6.79.336
Summary:

Has obtained puzzling results when reducing JH's observations of the sixth satellite of Saturn.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel9156

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Whewell
Date:
4?] November [1846
Source of text:
TC, Camb. Add. Ms.R.18.141 (C: RS:HS 25.13.7)
Summary:

Gives WW permission to print JH's translation of 'The Walk' by Friedrich Schiller. Comments further on the acceptance of pentametric and hexametric verse by the English, and includes a few verses of JH's own. JH well along in having his Cape Results in print.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8599

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Johann Franz Encke
Date:
5 November [1846]
Source of text:
AdWDDR Encke 49
Summary:

Has secured the permission JE requested to allow [Karl I.] Gerhardt to get transcripts of letters held by R.S.L. from G. W. Leibniz to Henry Oldenburg. [Continued 1846-11-6] Mentions controversy over discovery of Neptune. Thanks JE for publications sent.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel9157

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Whewell
Date:
[6 November 1846]
Source of text:
TC, Camb. Add. Ms.R.18.14.44(1&2) inc (C: RS:HS 22.286 & C: RS:HS 18.207 inc
Summary:

Gives corrections to the proof copy of JH's translation of Friedrich Schiller's 'The Walk.' Comments on the failure in England to discover the new planet [Neptune] and on his own and James Challis's role in the controversy that erupted.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3274

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Chairman of R.S.L. Committee of Physics
Date:
[11 November 1846]
Source of text:
RS Sa.651 (C: RS Sa.652, RS Sa.653; ACCS: RS:HS 25.7.3)
Summary:

Being unable to attend committee meeting to consider recommendations for Royal Medal, elaborates reasons for thinking Edward Sabine's memoirs on terrestrial magnetism worthy of award.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel326

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[18 November 1846]
Source of text:
RGO 6.203.344
Summary:

Proposes a plan for the distribution of printed copies of the star catalogues [see GA's 1845-7-25].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel360

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[18 November 1846]
Source of text:
RGO 6.79.338
Summary:

Has made some minor adjustments in JH's satellite of Saturn results [see JH's 1846-11-2], but the major discrepancy still exists.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3234

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Rowan Hamilton
Date:
19] November [1846?
Source of text:
TCD 1493:374
Summary:

WH's theorems on ellipsoids are new to JH, but JH is unfamiliar with the field, so they may not actually be new. Wishes to master mathematics. Still working on Cape observations. Believes Neptune was almost an English discovery, and would have been well-named Minerva.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6762

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Rutter Dawes
Date:
[19 November 1846]
Source of text:
RS:HS 22.287
Summary:

Comments on calculation of star locations, and how to make special observations.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel361

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[20 November 1846]
Source of text:
RGO 6.79.340
Summary:

GA's suggestions [see GA's 1846-11-19] have helped JH solve his problem; now JH has a problem with observations of the second satellite of Saturn.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6510

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Spencer J. A. Compton
Date:
[25 November 1846]
Source of text:
RS:HS 22.289
Summary:

Informing SC that U. J. J. Leverrier has asked JH to accept the Copley Medal on his behalf.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11292

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Urbain J. J. Leverrier
Date:
[25 November 1846]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.196 & 22.288
Summary:

Will put the matter of UL's medal into the hands of Edward Sabine, the Foreign Secretary, who will hand it to the Ambassador for delivery to France.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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