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Herschel3384

From:
Henry Clifton Sorby
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[6 September 1856]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.220
Summary:

In response to JH's letter to John Tyndall, explains views on the mechanical nature of geological phenomenon of slaty cleavage.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4348

From:
William Henry Smyth
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[9 September 1856]
Source of text:
RS:HS 16.300
Summary:

Visited Liverpool for inspection of School Frigate. Observed Triton. C. P. Smyth will install large telescope at Alta Vista; WS sends excerpt from son's letter. C. P. Smyth also works on spectral line observations.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7052

From:
Augustus De Morgan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[10 September 1856]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.288
Summary:

Has fallen from a ladder in his library and dislocated his shoulder, which accounts for the form of his letter. Has he any recollections of Humphry Davy rubbing his hands together?

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3587

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Henry Clifton Sorby
Date:
[11 September 1856]
Source of text:
RS:HS 23.179
Summary:

Thanks HS for response to and explains further JH's letter to John Tyndall regarding explanation of origin of geological slaty cleavage.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4109

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Henry Smyth
Date:
[11 September 1856]
Source of text:
RS:HS 23.180
Summary:

Success of C. P. Smyth's Teneriffe expedition pleases JH; anxious for declination of nebulae taken from high altitudes. Upset over G. J. Stoney's reproduction of JH's collimating telescope without giving him credit.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7053

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Augustus De Morgan
Date:
[12 September 1856]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.289 & 23.181
Summary:

Thought that AD's last letter was supposed to be written in verse. Hopes his injury will soon improve. Does not recollect any habit of Humphry Davy rubbing his hands together. A professor, [G. J.?] Stoney, has re-invented JH's collimating telescope and not improved it.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7054

From:
Augustus De Morgan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[13 September 1856]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.290
Summary:

Quotes a rhyme. May have been injured even if he had been at Collingwood. Possibly [G. J.?] Stoney has not read JH on the telescope. Is thriving in health but sleeping very well.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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