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Herschel5878

From:
Jacques Babinet
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[3 February 1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS 3.4
Summary:

On a static measure for gravity.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7328

From:
Frederick Drew
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[4 February 1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.504
Summary:

Is going to Kashmir for a geological survey. Wonders if while he is there he can carry out any meteorological research.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8344

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Jacques Babinet
Date:
[4 February 1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS 19.147
Summary:

Notes ingenuity of JB's gravimetric balance. Astonished that it did not occur to anyone before. [Letter continues 5 Feb.:] Suggestion for improving torsion thread arrangement.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7660

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[6 February 1862]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 12/1.1.14; Reel 10
Summary:

Returned JH's 'original sheets of nebulae.' Kept sheets of calculations. Will write about money accounts later. Lord Palmerston's communication about Thomas Maclear's pension.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel722

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Alexander Stewart Herschel
Date:
[6 February 1862]
Source of text:
JHS 1.116
Summary:

Comments on AH's chemical results and on an apparently anomalous sample of common salt being sent by JH; sends AH £5 for the month.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6718

From:
Thomas Davidson
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[6 February 1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.35
Summary:

Many years ago he read a paper to the Royal Scottish Society of Arts on the merits of JH's telescope compared with that of William Parsons (3rd Earl of Rosse); this paper has never been printed. Gives details of his own optical work.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11423

From:
Edward Joseph Lowe
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[7 February 1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.334
Summary:

Hears that his chance of success at the R.S.L. is good. [John?] Lee will forward the certificate to JH for presentation to the R.S.L.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7688

From:
John R. Hind
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[7 February 1862]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 12/1.6.3; Reel 10
Summary:

Glad that JH approves introducing Julian dates. Notes their use in American lunar tables. Positions of three new nebulae.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6719

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Thomas Davidson
Date:
[9 February 1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.36 (C: RS:HS 23.361)
Summary:

Outlines the differences between the telescope of his own father and that of Lord Oxmantown [William Parsons]. Comments on various lenses. Sends him a little work of his own on telescopes.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel2475

From:
Edward Sabine
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
11 February [1862?]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.329
Summary:

JH will be pleased with Mr. de Souza's and [Charles] Smallwood's letters. American and Havana instruments were dispatched. [Hermann] Schlagintweit has made interesting magnetic survey of India.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel850

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Margaret Brodie Herschel
Date:
11 February [1862]
Source of text:
JHS 4.2
Summary:

Mostly family news, concluding with concerns about family finances.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6720

From:
Thomas Davidson
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[12 February 1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.37
Summary:

Is grateful for JH's letter and pamphlet. Worked on portraiture before Mr. Baird and assisted him later. Outlines the various lenses he used and made for other people. Is pleased JH has a good opinion of the work of [W. B.?] Rogers. Is he familiar with the works of [Thomas?] Dicks in astronomy?

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel723

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Alexander Stewart Herschel
Date:
[13 February 1862]
Source of text:
JHS 1.117
Summary:

Comments on a number of chemical phenomena, and asks AH to analyze several solid samples; further, JH discusses meteor falls, with emphasis on the application of Newton's laws and terminal velocities.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8381

From:
Jacques Babinet
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[22 February 1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS 19.202
Summary:

Describes procedures, apparatus, and calculations for determining the static gravity of the earth. Thanks JH for some of his writings, and comments that JH, like Newton, has discovered the mind of the Creator and passed this on to humanity.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3558

From:
Henri de Senarmont
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[24 February 1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.188
Summary:

Asks JH's help in efforts to publish a complete edition of writings of physicist Augustin Fresnel.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8345

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Jacques Babinet
Date:
[24 February 1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS 19.148
Summary:

JB's solution to torsion thread arrangement is simpler and more ingenious than JH's. Enquires about details of gravimetric balance. Pendulum measurements. Density of continents. Clarification of JH's privileges as foreign associate of Institute. Death of J. B. Biot.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6841

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Warren de La Rue
Date:
[28 February 1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS 23.364
Summary:

Thanks for fine engravings; is concerned about the 'miraculous phenomena' depicted on some other people's engravings, 'especially American ones.'

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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