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Herschel6996

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Augustus De Morgan
Date:
[26 March 1849]
Source of text:
RS:HS 23.64
Summary:

Correction to JH's paper on double stars [see JH's 1849-3-26 & 1849-3-25].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6997

From:
Augustus De Morgan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[27 March 1849]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.252
Summary:

Has received three packets, dated and initialed. Further comments regarding Julius Caesar and the calendar.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6998

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Augustus De Morgan
Date:
[27 March 1849]
Source of text:
RS:HS 23.65
Summary:

Correction to paper on double stars following up JH's 1849-3-26; a terrible pun sent on by JH's wife, Margaret.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel137

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[28 March 1849]
Source of text:
RGO 6.694.248
Summary:

Asks JH's opinion about GA's plan not to print a separate volume of magnetic and meteorological observations for 1848.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel138

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[29 March 1849]
Source of text:
RGO 6.694.250
Summary:

Some concerns about GA's intent of attaching magnetic and meteorological observations to the R.A.S.'s Astronomical Observations [see GA's 1849-3-28].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel335

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[29 March 1849]
Source of text:
RGO 6.465.26
Summary:

Asks GA if he knows of any rules or pitfalls in calculating time from earlier times [even B.C.] to the present.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel139

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[30 March 1849]
Source of text:
RGO 6.694.251
Summary:

Will reconsider the proposal about printing observations [see JH's 1849-3-29], and get back to JH.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel336

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[30 March 1849]
Source of text:
RGO 6.465.27
Summary:

Has little advice to offer JH about time calculation [see JH's 1849-3-29], except for fairly standard reminders.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel13606

From:
[A. J. F.] Yvon Villarceau
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1 April 1849]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.418
Summary:

Asks for JH's comments on YV's specific double star observations. YV presents the mathematical method he uses to calculate double star orbits, which he had presented to the Paris Académie in 1847, but it was not published.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6999

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Augustus De Morgan
Date:
1849-4
Source of text:
RS:HS 23.66
Summary:

Needs to revise Outlines Astr., and will include Ernesto Capocchi's announcement of the discovery of another planet; some further corrections of JH's double star paper.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel13548

From:
Henry Anthony Jeffreys
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[2 April 1849]
Source of text:
TxU:H/MW-0025.1; Reel 14
Summary:

Describes HJ's formal petition against Stuart Watley's bill for reform of marriage laws.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel13549

From:
Henry Anthony Jeffreys
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
3] April [1849
Source of text:
TxU:H/MW-0025.2; Reel 14
Summary:

Thanks for JH's corrections to HJ's formal petition [against marriage reform bill].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11301

From:
Urbain J. J. Leverrier
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[3 April 1849]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.205
Summary:

Read part of JH's letter to the Institute and Yvon Villarceau also presented his own method. Will see the letter printed in the Comptes rendus.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel343

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[4 April 1849]
Source of text:
RGO 6.231.395
Summary:

Glad to hear that Margaret Louisa [JH's daughter] is coming to visit GA's family; could JH send along the key to the R.A.S. strong box?

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11174

From:
Francis Charles Knowles
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[5 April 1849]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.64
Summary:

Looks forward to the new edition of JH's Treatise Astr. Comments on the atmosphere and gases on the surface of the moon. What does JH think of these comments?

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel344

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[5] April 1849
Source of text:
RGO 6.231.396
Summary:

Responds to GA's 1849-4-4, and sends the key.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel44

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[7 April 1849]
Source of text:
RGO 6.371.106
Summary:

Some responses to the question of copyright and of revision of articles prepared for the Encyclopaedia Metropolitana.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel345

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[9 April 1849]
Source of text:
RGO 6.231.176
Summary:

Is making a case for JH's priority claims with regard to the means of determining double star orbits, in conflict with Yvon Villarceau.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11409

From:
Edward Joseph Lowe
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[10 April 1849]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.320
Summary:

Has just published a small work to remove popular superstitions. Presents a copy to JH as a mark of respect.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel5641

From:
William Radcliffe Birt
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[10 April 1849]
Source of text:
RS:HS 4.131
Summary:

Has received the proof sheets of his contributions to the Admiralty Manual and would like to make a few alterations. Has heard no news of the Madras appointment.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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