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Herschel4459

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Henry Smyth
Date:
[11 January 1848]
Source of text:
RS:HS 23.3
Summary:

Suggests WS take the chair at the next R.S.L. meeting. Discusses a project of John Lubbock's. Fears Caroline Herschel will not survive the year.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4278

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Henry Smyth
Date:
[20 September 1848]
Source of text:
RS:HS 23.35
Summary:

Sends paper by F. W. A. Argelander, which G. B. Airy wishes to have published. Revising chapter on perturbations in his Treatise Astr. Will include theory of motions of the apsides and the variations of the eccentricities.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4222

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Henry Smyth
Date:
[7 November 1848]
Source of text:
RS:HS 23.48
Summary:

Will miss R.A.S. meeting; asks WS to take chair. William Lassell announces discovery of Hyperion; believes he may have also observed an eighth satellite of Saturn.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4494

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Henry Smyth
Date:
[26 November 1848]
Source of text:
RS:HS 23.52
Summary:

Gives suggestions for Edinburgh Board of Visitors. Gives no specific names, but says it should include theoretical and practical astronomers, geographers, and meteorologists.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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