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Herschel8297

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
John Stewart
Date:
1843-2
Source of text:
RS:HS 19.102
Summary:

Agrees to provide Josiah Quincy with extracts from letters by James Grahame. Highlights of Grahame's life.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4338

From:
Richard Taylor
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[2 February 1843]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.341
Summary:

Has 50 copies of JH's paper ['On the Action of the Rays of the Solar Spectrum on the Daguerreotype Plate'] for P.M. printed exclusively for JH. Asks opinion of papers for next issue of Scientific Memoirs.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10746

From:
Robert Hunt
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[4 February 1843]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.98
Summary:

Has been reading JH's communication to the P.M. [on solar spectrum] and wishes to point out that RH was the first to carry out those experiments, which are recounted in the P.M. for 1840.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel12328

From:
William O'Shaughnessy Brooke
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[6 February 1843]
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.185
Summary:

Has ventured on the risks of an election to the R.S.L. and would like JH's support and influence with those on the Council. Was prevented from visiting Dover. Sails for Canada on 4 Mar.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel5354

From:
Charles Babbage
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[12 February 1843]
Source of text:
RS:HS 2.301
Summary:

Regarding his brother-in-law's sale of property. Sorry he was unable to meet him at Dover recently. Mother in good health.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel2280

From:
Edward Sabine
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[14 February 1843]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.151
Summary:

Sent JH's letter concerning actinometers to all observatories. [Johann] Lamont must be informed of recent work. ES comparing fluctuations of direction and force at Toronto and Van Diemen's Land. Mentions [G. B.] Airy and air currents.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel5355

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Charles Babbage
Date:
[14 February 1843]
Source of text:
RS:HS 2.302
Summary:

Regarding the deeds for CB's brother-in-law. Is sorry that CB could not see the blasting of the cliffs at Dover.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel5590

From:
Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[17 February 1843]
Source of text:
RS:HS 4.80
Summary:

Note of thanks for paper of JH's; replies with a printing of a talk by FB about William Herschel.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3810

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Robert Hunt
Date:
[17 February 1843]
Source of text:
George Eastman House, 15.17 (C: RS:HS 22.147)
Summary:

Clarification of priority to the prismatic analysis of the Daguerreotype photograph; comments on the location of a limiting diaphragm in a camera obscura.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel14329

From:
William Henry Smyth
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[17 February 1843]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0491; Reel 1093
Summary:

Extract from observations of 70 Ophiuchi by F. W. Bessel. Results agree with WS's measurements by different method and increase WS's confidence. Hopes for more information on Gamma Virginis before finalizing WS's manuscript.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel12200

From:
G. W. Müller
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[20 February 1843]
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.57
Summary:

Reports on GM's health and immediate travel plans.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8654

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
[Robert Hunt?]
Date:
[23 February 1843]
Source of text:
Manchester Central Library
Summary:

Thanks for the 'exquisite specimen of Daguerreotype.' Speculates on the possibility of making Daguerreotype portraits small enough to be set in rings or in shirt pins.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10210

From:
Christian Ludwig Gerling
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[24 February 1843]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.96
Summary:

A note accompanying some papers on the geodesic work carried out in Germany.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6107

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Francis Baily
Date:
[24 February 1843]
Source of text:
RS:HS 3.234 (C: RS:HS 25.8.49)
Summary:

Thanks for his paper on the Earth. Wishes his own Cape work was finished and of the same standard as FB's work. Regarding support for Dr. W. B. O'Shaughnessy when his election to the R.S.L. is being considered.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6109

From:
Francis Baily
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[25 February 1843]
Source of text:
RS:HS 3.236
Summary:

Regarding his own support for W. B. O'Shaughnessy. Star reform in the Southern hemisphere.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6108

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Francis Baily
Date:
1843-2-[25 or later]
Source of text:
RS:HS 3.235 (C: RS:HS 25.8.50)
Summary:

Will start work on the Southern Constellations without delay. Thanks for his remarks on W. B. O'Shaughnessy.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3391

From:
Benjamin Silliman
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[27 February 1843]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.205
Summary:

Thanks JH for favorable comments on BS's biography of [Charles?] Mason. Has been given part of an unusual meteorite fallen in the Cape. If JH has a piece of it, hopes to obtain JH's opinion.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1674

From:
Alfred Smee
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[28 February 1843]
Source of text:
RS:HS 16.160
Summary:

Describes experiments in the electrochemical decomposition of metallic salts.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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