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Herschel5039

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Augustus Frederick
Date:
1838-6
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.420 & 21.246
Summary:

Giving his reasons for not wanting to become a Baronet.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel5040

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Augustus Frederick
Date:
1838-6
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.421 & 20.247
Summary:

Thanking him for his offer of a baronetcy. Matters relating to this.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8606

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Mrs. Joseph Goodall
Date:
[1838-6 to 1840-5]
Source of text:
Gerald M. Friedman
Summary:

Thanks for loan of letters of Captain [Richard] Copeland.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6235

From:
Francis Beaufort
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[4 June 1838]
Source of text:
RS:HS 3.354
Summary:

Thursday will suit Charles Wood and FB is writing to G. B. Airy to meet JH in (FB's) room.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel5580

From:
Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[5 June 1838]
Source of text:
RS:HS 4.70
Summary:

Welcomes JH back from Cape; includes results of FB's work on geodesical measurements in East Prussia.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10096

From:
James Grahame
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[6 June 1838]
Source of text:
RS:HS 8.433
Summary:

Welcome home to the Herschels.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1906

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Henry Bunbury
Date:
[6 June 1838]
Source of text:
WT B.4
Summary:

Informs HB that a cask of bulbs is waiting for him at the Customs House. From JH's experience of his own bulbs, urges HB to get them quickly as they will deteriorate rapidly.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1728

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[7 June 1838]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0626.3
Summary:

A notice of meeting of the Standards Commission.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel14101

From:
John Landeman
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[7 June 1838]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0325; Reel 1087
Summary:

Asks JH for assistance in obtaining financial aid and new instruments from English government in support of meteorological observatory in British Guiana, where JL's son is stationed. Can JH suggest employment opportunities as astronomer in U.K. for JL's son?

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel12031

From:
Roderick Impey Murchison
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[8 June 1838]
Source of text:
RS:HS 12.393
Summary:

Regarding tickets for Lady Herschel's gallery. There has been some fracas with Charles Babbage over the distribution of these tickets.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel14685

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[9 June 1838]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0626.1; Reel 1084 (ACCS: RGO 6.340.272)
Summary:

Asks JH to compile list of questions to be sent to 'commercial bodies' regarding prospective changes in standards of weights and measures. To be presented at June 1838 meeting of Commission of Standards [see JH's 1838-5-24].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11355

From:
Humphrey Lloyd
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[9 June 1838]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.263
Summary:

Would have liked to have welcomed JH on his return from the Cape, but academic duties prevented it. Royal Irish Academy progresses under W. R. Hamilton's presidency. His late father established a magnetic observatory at Dublin and HL is in charge.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel13724

From:
John Elliot Drinkwater-Bethune
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[9 June 1838]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0080; Reel 1087
Summary:

Lists 11 British cities with active Chambers of Commerce and two societies that might come 'within the Spirit of our resolution.' Will make further inquiries.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11582

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Humphrey Lloyd
Date:
[11 June 1838]
Source of text:
RS:HS 21.248
Summary:

Some personal and some general astronomical news.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8589

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Jean Baptiste Biot
Date:
[11 June 1838]
Source of text:
Columbia Univ. Library
Summary:

Thanks JB for letter to JH at the Cape. Requests JB to provide introductions for Mr. Stanford, who is making statistical inquiries in France.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1324

From:
William Henry Fox Talbot
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[11 June 1838]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.275
Summary:

About Cape bulbs and seeds, the new travel by railway from Slough to London, and concern about interest in animal magnetism.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel13603

From:
Siméon Denis Poisson
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[12 June 1838]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.16
Summary:

Seems to be commenting on someone's wonderful work, and describing some of SP's travels. [Letter almost totally illegible.]

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3173

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Rowan Hamilton
Date:
[15 June 1838]
Source of text:
TCD 4015:96
Summary:

Comments and expands on James MacCullagh's paper on laws of reflection and polarization in crystals.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel2081

From:
John Richard
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[18 June 1838]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.330
Summary:

Thanks JH for gift of roots from the Cape. Discusses Testimonial dinner for JH, at which JR's Royal Master [Augustus Frederick] spoke. Congratulates JH.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3859

From:
William Rowan Hamilton
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[18 June 1838]
Source of text:
unknown
Summary:

Pleased that the Royal Irish Academy awarded its Science Medal to James MacCullagh for his paper on the "Laws of Crystalline Reflexion and Refraction;" he deems MacCullagh's essay superior to WH's "On Algebra as the Science of Pure Time.","L

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John Herschel Project
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