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Herschel101

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[6 July 1840]
Source of text:
RGO 6.675.239
Summary:

Comments on a proposed request for a government grant to establish a magnetic and meteorological institute.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11628

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[6 July 1840]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0011; Reel 1054
Summary:

GA's correspondence with [R.S.L. president] Lord Northampton [S. J. A. Compton] will be read before Physical Committee. JH favors establishing national physical observatory and experimental institute, but wishes plan had been discussed more fully. Proposes sites, procedures, and instruments for magnetic and meteorological observations in Britain. Ideas for experimental institute.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4699

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[14 July 1840]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.88
Summary:

Regarding the printing of Thomas Maclear's Survey papers. Work on magnetical and meteorological observations.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1741

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[25 July 1840]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0627.10
Summary:

Sends JH a copy of extracts from unpublished papers on the question of standards, and asks for JH's comments on these extracts.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7760

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[25 July 1840]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 14/3.9.11 verso; Reel 11 (ACCS: RGO 6.368.638)
Summary:

Copies of report are available if JH's friends on Board [of Visitors] want to see it. R.S.L. selected GA's polarity paper for Bakerian Lectures. Thanks for JH's influence.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1743

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[29 July 1840]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0627.12
Summary:

Requests the views of JH, and all other Standards Commission members, on the various subjects before the Commission; GA will compile these and circulate them to all Commission members to expedite discussions at future meetings.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel523

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[29 July 1840]
Source of text:
RGO 6.340.281
Summary:

Responds to GA's circulated material for the Standards Commission; suggests time to digest the information.

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John Herschel Project
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