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Herschel9817

From:
Alexander Hamilton-Gordon
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1 April 1861]
Source of text:
RS:HS 8.152
Summary:

Cannot lay his hands on JH's paper at the moment. Family is going on well. Will send details of the secret code of Army signals.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6321

From:
George Boole
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[3 April 1861]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.83
Summary:

Thanks for JH's paper 'On a New Projection of the Sphere.' Wonders why no one has discussed this important problem before.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8119

From:
Thomas Watson
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[6 April 1861]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.385
Summary:

Sends photographic copy of mural tablet TW placed in chapel of St. John's College to honor TW's late uncle, Thomas Catton.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6322

From:
George Boole
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[8 April 1861]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.84
Summary:

Questions arising from JH's 'On a New Projection of the Sphere.' Will send his solution if JH is interested.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel2258

From:
John Daniel Runkle
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[8 April 1861]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.511a
Summary:

Sends Mathematical Monthly with JH's portrait and catalog of his writings. Smithsonian will send rain data JH wants. Discusses politics and hopes England will help break the cotton monopoly and thereby end slavery.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel12240

From:
John Henry Nelson
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[10 April 1861]
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.97
Summary:

Thanks for JH's kindness and the good things sent. Now sends a specimen of what photography can achieve on a large scale.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

SOMERVILLE313

From:
John Herschel
To:
Mary Somerville
Date:
12 Apr 1861
Source of text:
HS 16.365, RS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse

Herschel2674

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Mary Somerville
Date:
[12 April 1861]
Source of text:
RS:HS 16.365 (C: RS:HS 23.328)
Summary:

Thanks MS for sympathy letter. Discusses present situation in Italy. Discusses his children and their scattered locations, e.g., a son fighting in the Indigo affair. Discusses his articles for Encyclopaedia Britannica.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1983

From:
Norman Pogson
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[15 April 1861]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.12
Summary:

Replies to JH's inquiries about Messier 80, noting that a bright star, since vanished, obliterated the cluster. Describes poor but improving instrumentation at the Madras Observatory. Asks about JH's son Alexander.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6704

From:
Charles G. B. Daubeny
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[22 April 1861]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.21
Summary:

Is sending one of his own pamphlets which may interest JH. Hopes he is enjoying better health now he has resigned from the Mint.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4864

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[22 April 1861]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.251 (C: RGO 6.694.319)
Summary:

Asks for his comments on the results of his Magnetic Register 1848-1857.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4865

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[23 April 1861]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.253
Summary:

Further remarks concerning his Magnetic Registers [see GA's 1861-4-22].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel140

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[23 April 1861]
Source of text:
RGO 6.694.321 (drafts RS:HS 1.252 & 23.329)
Summary:

Asks GA many questions about his magnetical explanation [see GA's 1861-4-22].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4866

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[24 April 1861]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.254 (C: RGO 6.694.324)
Summary:

Regarding the evaporation of water as a source of electricity. Magnetic results in relation to the North Atlantic.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10797

From:
Thomas Hamilton
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[24 April 1861]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.151
Summary:

Requesting JH's autograph.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel2557

From:
William Selwyn
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[27 April 1861]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.466
Summary:

Discusses Galileo's unpublished letter on sunspots. Outlines comparisons between tropical storms and sunspots as discussed at Cambridge Philosophical Society. Wishes to meet [Frederick] Howlett to discuss sunspots.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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