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Herschel4944

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[1843-9]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.333 (C: RS:HS 25.13.12)
Summary:

Regarding custody of the Standards.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel12591

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Georg Merz & Son
Date:
[2 September 1843]
Source of text:
RS:HS 25.6.18
Summary:

Is inquiring, on behalf of the Admiralty, about ordering an equatorially mounted achromatic telescope for the Royal Observatory at the Cape of Good Hope.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10880

From:
Sir Robert Harry Inglis
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[4 September 1843]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.229
Summary:

Will find one friend at the R.S.L. Club dinner next Thursday.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel13644

From:
Charles Babbage
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[6 September 1843]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0027; Reel 1062
Summary:

Sends deeds already signed by J. J. Guest. JH should sign and return them. [Annotation by unknown hand: Mrs. Hollier's marriage and settlement.]

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel2463

From:
Edward Sabine
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
7 September [1843]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.317
Summary:

Sends letter from [P. H. L. ] Boguslawski for JH's magnetic report. [John] Lefroy has found line of greatest intensity further south in Canada than ES expected.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel2120

From:
John David Roberton
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[8 September 1843]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.367
Summary:

[J. C.] Ross has returned safely. Ross has a box for JH.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4490

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Henry Smyth
Date:
[8 September 1843]
Source of text:
RS:HS 22.167
Summary:

Offers condolences to Ann Smyth. WS's calculation of Gamma Virginis orbit surprises JH. Concerned about accurate methods of calculation. Remarks on excavation of Chelsea mammoth.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4738

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[9 September 1843]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.128 (C: RGO 6.340.353)
Summary:

Regarding the storage of the Standard weights and measures.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel541

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[10 September 1843]
Source of text:
RGO 6.340.354
Summary:

Makes some suggestions about possible storage places for the United States' standards [see GA's 1843-9-9].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3080

From:
Adolphe Quetelet
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[11 September 1843]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.245
Summary:

Has succeeded in increasing stations around Alps for meteorological observations. [G. B.] Airy is very obliging. Hopes one day to collect all meteorological observations in Sur le climat de la Belgique.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10751

From:
Robert Hunt
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[11 September 1843]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.103
Summary:

Enclosing specimens of his chromatype; comments on how these were produced and their characteristics. Is very busy with the Annual Exhibition of the Polytechnic Society.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6132

From:
Francis Baily
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[12 September 1843]
Source of text:
RS:HS 3.258
Summary:

Sends specimens of works which are to go to press. Has had an estimate for the printing. Nomenclature has to be settled first.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1753

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[12 September 1843]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0629.6
Summary:

Describes some available glass discs, which might do for making lenses for a large refracting telescope [see GA's 1843-8-30].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel5614

From:
William Radcliffe Birt
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[12 September 1843]
Source of text:
RS:HS 4.103
Summary:

Could he loan him the Russian observations. Recent readings of the barometer.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3999

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Caroline Lucretia Herschel
Date:
[13 September 1843]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0588.13.a; Reel 1058
Summary:

Enjoyed reading CH's account of some significant events from her life. Reports that James Clark Ross has returned safely from his South Pole expedition in which Ross discovered the true position of the South Magnetic Pole.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6133

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Francis Baily
Date:
[13 September 1843]
Source of text:
RS:HS 3.259 (C: RS:HS 25.8.59)
Summary:

Regarding the cost of printing the catalogues, and matters pertaining to them. Can FB give him any general table of processions. Has started work on the letter press of his own book.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8303

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Radcliffe Birt
Date:
[15 September 1843]
Source of text:
RS:HS 19.109
Summary:

B.A.A.S. approved WB's employment by Magnetical and Meteorological Committee to explore atmospheric waves. Will send Russian observations tomorrow. Howard Elphinstone agrees to send his observations [at Ore, near Hastings]. Lists meteorology books.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4739

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[16 September 1843]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.129
Summary:

Requires information on an actinometer.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4016

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Robert Hunt
Date:
[17 September 1843]
Source of text:
George Eastman House, 14.17 (C: RS:HS 22.168)
Summary:

Comments on RH's chromatype photographic process and other processes tried by JH.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1499

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Sir Charles Lyell
Date:
[17 September 1843]
Source of text:
APS B.D25.L.3 (ACCS: RS:HS B27.57)
Summary:

Inquires of CL about the suitability of George Robert Waterhouse for a natural history post in the British Museum. Congratulates CL on his successful trip to the United States.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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