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From:
Edward Sabine
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1857?]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.330
Summary:

Returns polar maps. Advises on methods of map projection, favoring polar projection. Working on new maps.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Henri Victor Regnault
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
1857
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.320
Summary:

Discusses his itinerary for the British Isles. Gives address where he may be reached. Wishes to visit JH at Collingwood. Congratulates JH on his improved health.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Jean Baptiste André Dumas
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1857-1]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.511
Summary:

Discusses an edition of Antoine Lavoisier's works [3 vols., 1862-65] edited by JD. Comments on the edition and on the arrangements for JH receiving it.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sophia Beck
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1857 or later]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 12/1.3.7 verso; Reel 10
Summary:

All is well. Hope JH hears 'good accounts from India.'

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
W. G. Penny
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
1857
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.153
Summary:

Sends a copy of his Astronomical Investigations. Claims there is an 'inequality in the motions of Mars and the Earth.'

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir Edward Ryan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[2 January 1857]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.463
Summary:

Sends information concerning India in response to letter of JH's son. [Sir Charles Edward] Trevelyan has printed such information occasionally. Many do not see the importance of India.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
W. B. Clegram
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
6 January [1857]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.349
Summary:

J. C. Symons is spreading locally false theories about the rotation of the moon. Would like JH's views on this.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
W. B. Clegram
Date:
[8 January 1857]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.350 & 23.186
Summary:

Regrets that he thinks the faith of the public in astronomy should be shaken by the errors of J. C. Symons. Gives the theory of the rotation of the moon.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
James David Forbes
Date:
[14 January 1857]
Source of text:
St. Andrews 55a (C: RS:HS 23.187)
Summary:

Thanks JF for his dissertation on the Progress of Mathematical and Physical Science. Discusses health of JF and JH. Suggests that some actinometric measurements are not as seriously flawed as at first thought [see JH's 1847-3-1].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Augustus De Morgan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[16 January 1857]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.293
Summary:

Thanks for the magic square, which he is now returning. Seems no end to the possibilities of such squares.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Henry Sykes
Date:
[16 January 1857]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.152 (C: RS:HS 23.188)
Summary:

Interprets [John] Dalton's theory of the nonelasticity of gas particles, expressing its limitations, particularly in regard to a Mr. Paton's paper.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
George Peacock
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[24 January 1857]
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.307
Summary:

About the state of GP's health, and plans for a vacation

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
G. F. Daniell
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[26 January 1857]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.469
Summary:

Forwarding a copy of a letter written by GD's father in which he quotes from JH's writings. Is grateful for the tribute he paid to his father at the B.A.A.S. meeting.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
William Henry Smyth
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[27 January 1857]
Source of text:
RS:HS 16.301
Summary:

Asks JH to recommend C. P. Smyth for R.S.L. fellowship. Will avoid R.S.L. meetings due to declining health. Considers a second edition of Cycle of Celestial Objects.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Henry Smyth
Date:
[29 January 1857]
Source of text:
RS:HS 16.302 (C: RS:HS 23.189)
Summary:

Agrees to support C. P. Smyth for membership in R.S.L. Objects to C. P. Smyth's statement regarding his discoveries observing at high altitudes. Stresses importance of variable star work.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Augustus De Morgan
Date:
1857-2
Source of text:
RS:HS 23.190
Summary:

Offers AD a puzzle and JH's solution to AD's problem about a body revolving in the evolute of an ellipse. On sending Francis Baily's correspondence to Greenwich.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
William Henry Smyth
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
1857-2
Source of text:
RS:HS 16.303
Summary:

Thanks JH for discovering an important error in a work WS asked him to proof read. Asks JH about a variable in Canis Minor over which there is some debate.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Secretary Académie des sciences
Date:
[2 February 1857]
Source of text:
Académie des sciences (Paris)
Summary:

Thanks for having sent various publications; believes that the Academy's intention has been to send JH complete series; states which issues JH has not received.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[6 February 1857]
Source of text:
RGO 6.377.429
Summary:

Writes to arrange a visit to Collingwood.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
William Hopkins
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[7 February 1857]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.478
Summary:

Has been absent from home, which accounts for his belated reply. Comments on JH's difficulties in relation to W. H. Hopkins's memoir on the external temperature of the earth. JH's son is progressing well.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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