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From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[5 April 1827]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.30
Summary:

Questions concerning a vacant professorship at Dublin Observatory.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[7 April 1827]
Source of text:
RGO 6.803.19
Summary:

Offers information, and strategy, which GA may find useful if he is seriously considering a position at Dublin Observatory; much of the information JH provides comes from Francis Beaufort.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[8 April 1827]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.31
Summary:

Proposed visit to Dublin and letters of introduction from JH.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[20 April 1827]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.32
Summary:

Observations on the position of professorship at Dublin, conditions of service, income, etc.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[3 May 1827]
Source of text:
RGO 6.803.21
Summary:

Comments on GA's response to an offer from Dublin [see JH's 1827-4-7]; also about the discussion in the Council of the R.S.L. of a report of experiments from William Whewell and GA; JH makes some disparaging remarks about the work of John Pond.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[4 May 1827]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.33
Summary:

No news of Dublin. Remarks on a series of experiments. Observations on JH's paper on the Nautical Almanac.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[17 May 1827]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.34
Summary:

Further observations on JH's paper on the Nautical Almanac.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[18 May 1827]
Source of text:
RGO 6.803.22
Summary:

Explains to GA the disposition, by the Committee on Papers of the R.S.L., of GA's experimental results [see JH's 1827-5-3].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[18 October 1827]
Source of text:
RGO 6.803.29
Summary:

Comments on GA's work on the solar tables, GA's pending paper on eyepieces, and on the quality of observations made at Greenwich and Paris; GA is intending to repeat the experiment of swinging a pendulum in a mine, and JH believes the Board of Longitude can provide the equipment.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[24 October 1827]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.35
Summary:

Requesting a copy of JH's paper on 'Object planes.' Encloses with this letter his own paper on 'Eyepieces.' Requesting that Greenwich Observations be sent to the University Library, Cambridge.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[24 February 1828]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.36
Summary:

Asking JH to express his willingness to becoming Lucasian Professor at Cambridge University.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[26 February 1828]
Source of text:
RGO 6.803.41
Summary:

Informs GA that JH turned down the offer of the Lucasian Professorship at Cambridge, and suggests that Charles Babbage be offered the job.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[29 October 1828]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.37
Summary:

Asking JH's opinion on how he should print his catalogue of observations of transits. Requests information on any forthcoming comets.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[15 November 1828]
Source of text:
RGO 6.803.58
Summary:

States JH's position on the question of publishing all the observations of an observatory, or working out results and publishing only those; notes clearness of Encke's Comet; comments on the return of Charles Babbage from abroad.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[27 November 1828]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.38
Summary:

Asking JH to get in touch with Charles Babbage. Thanking him for his observations on his catalogue of stars and transits.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[7 December 1828]
Source of text:
RGO 6.803.73
Summary:

Has prepared a paper on the doctrine of sound; expects to be up to spend several days with GA at the Cambridge Observatory.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[2 November 1829]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.39
Summary:

Remarks about his recent tour of Italy including his meeting with G. A. A. Plana and other Italian astronomers How to observe the Moon's mass.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[6 December 1829]
Source of text:
RGO 6.803.118
Summary:

Comments on several astronomical topics, viz., the publication of unreduced observations, the strange behavior of some of GA's clocks, the problem of no significant stars in some areas when sweeping the sky, and the effects of Venus and the Moon on each other's behavior; asks GA for confirmation of some star positions.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[24 January 1830]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.40
Summary:

Giving observations on stars. Discussion of clock rates and sky sweeps.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1 March 1830]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.41
Summary:

Informing JH that he and GA have just been appointed to a committee to consider the extension of the Astronomical Society's catalogue. Observations on this catalogue.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project