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Herschel6836

From:
Warren de La Rue
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1 December 1860]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.146
Summary:

Please accept his thanks for his article on telescopes. Comments on JH's views. Would like 50 copies of the article to distribute to opticians.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel12375

From:
William Parsons (Lord Rosse)
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1 December 1860]
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.232
Summary:

Many thanks for JH's article on the telescope; will read it with much interest. Has employed an assistant to prepare drawings of the nebula. The six-foot reflector requires repolishing.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6336

From:
James Smith Brazier
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[5 December 1860]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.98
Summary:

Wishes to apply for a position as professor and would like JH's recommendation.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel14436

From:
Edward Sabine
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[6 December 1860]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0527.6; Reel 1093
Summary:

Summary of research on terrestrial magnetism in other countries. Will send paper on magnetic storms to JH.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel24

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[6 December 1860]
Source of text:
RGO 6.379.144
Summary:

A note with a copy of JH's article on telescopes for the Encyclopaedia Britannica, together with some papers to be forwarded to James Glaisher.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel2554

From:
William Selwyn
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[6 December 1860]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.464
Summary:

Sends pictures of sun. Thanks JH for sparking his interest in the sun. Wants JH to direct the B.A.A.S.'s use of the Kew telescope to take pictures.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4861

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[7 December 1860]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.248 (C: RGO 6.475.233)
Summary:

Thanking him for his paper on telescopes. Observations of JH's semicircular map of the world.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel310

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[8 December 1860]
Source of text:
RGO 6.475.235
Summary:

Has tried a number of different fractional projections, some more interesting than others [see GA's 1860-12-7].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6337

From:
James Smith Brazier
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[10 December 1860]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.99
Summary:

Is grateful for his prompt reply and kind remarks about his own qualifications [i.e., JB's].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11266

From:
William Lassell
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[11 December 1860]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.158
Summary:

Was grateful for the copy of JH's article on the telescope. Sends parcels containing two specimens of 4-ft. specula; comments on these. Weather has been unsuitable for observations.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8928

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
the London Times
Date:
[12 December 1860]
Source of text:
RS:HS 23:321
Summary:

[It having been asserted in the Times that the Russians have not communicated about the climate at Pekin], JH notes that in fact wonderfully detailed meteorological observations for Pekin from 1850 to 1855 have been widely distributed by the Russians.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1994

From:
Sir William Pole
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[12 December 1860]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.27
Summary:

Sends his certificate for the R.S.L. to JH to sign.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel13041

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
[James Calder] Stewart
Date:
[13 December 1860]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0454; Reel 1055
Summary:

Please withdraw [?]'s name from ballot until JH can confer with him when [he] comes home on leave next year. Thanks for care that JS is showing to Alexander S. Herschel.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6459

From:
Arthur Cayley
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[14 December 1860]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.227
Summary:

Returning the corrected proof of the note to be added to one of JH's papers.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel12082

From:
John Murray [Jr.]
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[14 December 1860]
Source of text:
RS:HS 12.449
Summary:

Has had a paper placed in his hands from an Icelandic Savant regarding drifts from Greenland. Thinks that JH may find this paper useful.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel12269

From:
Samuel Newington
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[17 December 1860]
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.126
Summary:

Can JH spare a few minutes one morning as he wishes to show him an invention to overcome seasickness; would like his comments.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel14437

From:
Edward Sabine
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[18 December 1860]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0527.7; Reel 1093
Summary:

Sends sample sheets of magnetic reductions from continual observations photographed at Kew. Explains reduction formulas. Will send to JH new paper by ES on lunar diurnal variation. Carlo Matteucci reports interest by new government in Naples in reviving meteorological observatory there.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel2400

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Edward Sabine
Date:
[20 December 1860]
Source of text:
RS:HS 23.322
Summary:

Thanks for declination readings from photograms at Kew. Thinks meteorological observatory on Vesuvius is good idea, but not sure a magnetic one is. Includes two charts of world.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel14438

From:
Edward Sabine
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[21 December 1860]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0527.8; Reel 1093
Summary:

Asks JH to comment on ES's paper, which will be read to R.S.L. on 10 Jan. Corrects errors in two earlier letters to JH. Will adopt 'Photograms' instead of 'Photographs.'

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8141

From:
John Gardner Wilkinson
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[21 December 1860]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.409
Summary:

Thanks for copy of JH's ['Remarks on Colour-Blindness' (1859-60)].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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