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Herschel3083

From:
Adolphe Quetelet
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[21 October 1845]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.248
Summary:

Deprived of news from JH. Works on physical phenomena of globe. Calls attention to [J. C. A.] Peltier's work on electricity of air of barometer. Asks JH to please write soon.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3084

From:
Adolphe Quetelet
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[17 August 1847]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.249
Summary:

Thanks JH for introducing him to Robert Kane. Hears that JH will publish Cape results. Impatient to see them. Mentions JH's philosophical work.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7492

From:
Adolphe Quetelet
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[8 September 1847]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 10/5.9; Reel 9
Summary:

[Form letter] Royal Academy of Science and Humanities acknowledges receipt of JH's Cape Results.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7493

From:
Adolphe Quetelet
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[28 October 1847]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 10/5.10; Reel 9
Summary:

Thanks JH for a copy of JH's Cape Results. Is pleased by JH's encouragement of AQ's meteorological observations, about which AQ comments further. Speaks of a family of comets related to Mars and Jupiter and asks JH's opinion about this.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3085

From:
Adolphe Quetelet
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[22 August 1848]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.250
Summary:

Hopes JH has received letter thanking JH for Cape Results. Sends meteorological work. Hopes to quit barometric wave observations of atmospheric waves. Has worked with aides on meteorological variations. AQ's mother died.

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John Herschel Project
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