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Herschel1186

From:
John Phillips
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[19 October 1840]
Source of text:
RS:HS B26.3
Summary:

Informs JH that the B.A.A.S. has placed him on a committee to provide two actinometers for observing high in the Alps.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1187

From:
John Phillips
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[19 October 1840]
Source of text:
RS:HS B26.4
Summary:

Informs JH that the B.A.A.S. has placed him on a committee to study the possibility of using balloon ascents to study the upper atmosphere.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1188

From:
John Phillips
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[19 October 1840]
Source of text:
RS:HS B26.5
Summary:

Informs JH that the B.A.A.S. has again placed him on the committee to supervise the translation and publication of foreign scientific memoirs.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel14208

From:
John Phillips
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[19 October 1840]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0428.6; Reel 1093
Summary:

JH, G. B. Airy, and Thomas Henderson are appointed to oversee the publication of the reductions of the calculations of N. L. Lacaille's stars. They will have £184 at their disposal.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel14209

From:
John Phillips
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[19 October 1840]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0428.7; Reel 1093
Summary:

JH, William Whewell, George Peacock, Humphrey Lloyd, and Edward Sabine are appointed by the B.A.A.S. to study systems of simultaneous magnetical and meteorological observations. They will be granted £50.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4388

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
John Phillips
Date:
[17 December 1840]
Source of text:
RS:HS 22.73
Summary:

Requests JP send JH's projected barometer observation to W. R. Birt.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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