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Herschel3298

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Unidentified
Date:
[1832]
Source of text:
RS LUB.H.350
Summary:

Gives permission to do anything with JH's letter; asks to be excused to J. W. Lubbock for not having written back.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8260

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Unidentified
Date:
[29 February 1832]
Source of text:
RS:HS 19.64
Summary:

Compares 'Products' principle with 'Sums' principle for numerical analysis of taxation in several boroughs. JH's opinion favoring Sums was quoted 'in the Assembly.'

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel9482

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Unidentified
Date:
[29 February 1832]
Source of text:
unknown
Summary:

Responds to an unidentified mathematician who had written a critique of ideas put forward by Thomas Drummond, regarding whether to estimate the importance of various boroughs primarily in terms of population or in terms of the wealth of the population.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8569

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Unidentified
Date:
[1832-7 or later]
Source of text:
BostonPubLib Ms.196(1)
Summary:

Please send vol. 2 of Nathaniel Bowditch's translation of P. S. Laplace's Mécanique céleste.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel13509

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Unidentified
Date:
[15 August 1832]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0746; Reel 1089
Summary:

As offered in [?]'s letter of 9 Aug. 1832, JH accepts position as member of B.A.A.S. Council.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3650

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Unidentified
Date:
[9 December 1832]
Source of text:
RS LUB.H.348
Summary:

Hopes for conveyance to Cambridge in covered vehicle for meeting of J. W. Lubbock's committee.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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