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Herschel2234

From:
Rummohun [?] Roy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[3 April 1832]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.504
Summary:

Must decline invitation to dinner due to poor health.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11231

From:
Dionysius Lardner
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[5 April 1832]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.122
Summary:

Wonders how JH's projected volume on Astronomy is progressing. Would also like a short biography of Francis Bacon.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4258

From:
Richard Potter
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[10 April 1832]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.181
Summary:

Discusses study of light, JH's theories on the subject, and his own photometer observations. Asks JH for further explanations of his theory.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10074

From:
James Grahame
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[12 April 1832]
Source of text:
RS:HS 8.411
Summary:

JG is revising his diary.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10530

From:
Thomas Hodgkin
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[13 April 1832]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.407
Summary:

Has received the chronometer and will return it to Lister, together with his remarks on apertures. Charles May has found another individual suffering from color blindness. A friend has successfully made a reflecting microscope.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3970

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Caroline Lucretia Herschel
Date:
[17 April 1832]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0577.2.a; Reel 1058
Summary:

Wilhelm Struve's observations support JH's findings concerning the rapid revolution of Eta Coronae. In acknowledgement of the discovery that double stars are a 'revolving binary system,' JH changed the inscription on William Herschel's monument.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3830

From:
Caroline Lucretia Herschel
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[20 April 1832]
Source of text:
unknown
Summary:

Reminds JH to send his catalog of double stars.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel5982

From:
Francis Baily
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[22 April 1832]
Source of text:
RS:HS 3.109
Summary:

Passing on the offer of assistance by Frederick Augustus (Duke of Sussex) for JH's projected visit to the Cape of Good Hope.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1041

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Richard Potter
Date:
[22 April 1832]
Source of text:
RS:HS 25.3.6
Summary:

Responds to RP's concerns about the nature of light and the interpretation of some interference experiments. JH believes that the undulatory theory of light is the best supported by the experiments at this time.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8866

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Editors of the Annales de chimie et de physique
Date:
[24 April 1832]
Source of text:
Annales de chimie, 49 (1832), 306-11
Summary:

Discusses a method of separating iron oxide from the oxides of other metals and a process for the purification of uranium oxide.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel5983

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Francis Baily
Date:
[24 April 1832]
Source of text:
RS:HS 3.110 & 21.106
Summary:

Is grateful for the offer of assistance from Frederick Augustus (Duke of Sussex), but would not care to avail himself of public funds as his intended visit is for his own private reasons.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel12611

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
[D. François J. Arago]
Date:
[26 April 1832]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0035; Reel 1054
Summary:

Sends letter, inspired by J. von Liebig's paper on separation of metallic oxides, to Annales de Chimie et de Physique. Fears JH's scientist friends may fall victim to the 'terrible malady...now raging' [in Paris].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel12612

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Editors of the Annales de chimie et de physique
Date:
[26] April 1832
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0036; Reel 1054
Summary:

JH's notes on separation of iron oxide and a new procedure for complete purification of uranium.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4666

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[27 April 1832]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.51
Summary:

Will he be visiting Cambridge this Spring?

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10075

From:
James Grahame
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[28 April 1832]
Source of text:
RS:HS 8.412
Summary:

Encourages JH to undertake a proposed trip to the Southern Hemisphere [letter completed 1832-5-1].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel595

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[4 May 1832]
Source of text:
RGO 6.804.93
Summary:

Is trying to clean up JH's nebulae observations preparatory to leaving for the Cape; comments on communications from F. G. W. Struve about double stars.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4667

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[6 May 1832]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.52
Summary:

Observations on the various ways of measuring angular positions (of double stars). Opinion on JH publishing his catalogue of nebulae. Remarks on the low standard of astronomical observations in England compared with the Continent.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4257

From:
William Henry Smyth
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[6 May 1832]
Source of text:
RS:HS 16.245
Summary:

Will observe transit [of Mercury] hoping it will provide good meridian data. Encloses sketch of telescope in Bedford.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6206

From:
Francis Beaufort
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
1832-5-10 or 1832-5-
Source of text:
RS:HS 3.327 & ACC: Hydrographic Office Letter Book
Summary:

Regarding instructions for James Dunlop at Parramatta Observatory. Richard Copeland has been reappointed to the Meteor, now renamed Beacon.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel9548

From:
James David Forbes
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[10 May 1832]
Source of text:
RS:HS 7.276
Summary:

Is proposing to visit the continent after the Oxford meeting to make observations and intends taking some meteorological instruments. Would like JH's advice on some points regarding the large thermometer filled with a blue liquid.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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