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Herschel7179

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Augustus De Morgan
Date:
[4 July 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.115
Summary:

On concept formation.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4264

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Isaac Todhunter
Date:
[4 July 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.116
Summary:

Sends copy of paper on 'projection of the sphere in which the problem is to make any infinitely small figure on the projection similar to that on the sphere,' which he has presented to the Royal Geographical Society.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel12158

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Henry Malden
Date:
[11 July 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.16 & 24.117
Summary:

Requesting information as to where he can find details of the principle that regulates the application of the Greek accents.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11196

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Bishop of Kingston
Date:
[14 July 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24:118
Summary:

Is pleased that the bishop found nothing religiously objectionable in JH's two papers, censored by the editor of the Fortnightly Review, in which JH suggested the spiritual origination of force, an idea that JH states has repeatedly appeared in JH's publications.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11144

From:
Hermann Kindt
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[15 July 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.32
Summary:

Requests that JH write a few lines to an old friend of HK's in Germany.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8128

From:
Edmund Wheeler
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[22 July 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.394
Summary:

Offers to lecture to JH's 'association.' Describes microscope equipment designed by EW and son, who now manufactures portable telescopes. Diagrams and questions about new object glasses and compound lenses. Offers free telescope to Alexander Herschel. Progress of Atlantic Cable offers good lecture topic for next session.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8129

From:
Edmund Wheeler
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[24 July 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.395
Summary:

Thanks JH for letter and explanation. Will contact Charles Pritchard for details. Please forward 'enclosed' to [Alexander Herschel].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8097

From:
Johann Karl Friedrich Zöllner
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[26 July 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.363
Summary:

A note to accompany the sending of some papers to JH and the R. A. S.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7812

From:
William Walker
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[26 July 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.20
Summary:

Will expect JH on Monday.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4307

From:
William Mathews, Jr.
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[28 July 1865]
Source of text:
Harvard: Houghton AAH 67m-67 (96)
Summary:

Replies to JH's letter of 1865-5-25 concerning the altitude/temperature equation.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11381

From:
Humphrey Lloyd
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[29 July 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.289
Summary:

Comments that A. J. Fresnel's papers in the Annales de chimie are really incomplete sketches of theories, which he developed later. Theory clearly stated in [Felix] Billet's Traité d'optique physique. Friend of his at Trinity College has produced a peculiar liquid.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel13358

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William James Herschel
Date:
29 [July?] 1865
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0559; Reel 1053
Summary:

Grateful for letter from WJH's wife Emma. Maria Herschel's engagement to Henry Hardcastle. WJH's report on improvements in British administration of India is good news. News and whereabouts of Herschel family. JH paid WJH's annual taxes, but not dues to Amateur Photographic Association requested by J. Melhuish. Alexander Herschel leaves Tuesday for Pyrenees.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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