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Herschel2427

From:
Edward Sabine
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[2 October 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.276
Summary:

Sends, for JH's signature, request from daughter of the late W. R. Hamilton for continuance of Hamilton's pension.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11282

From:
John Lee
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[3 October 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.185
Summary:

Sends a copy of the address of the President of the B.A.A.S. at Birmingham, also an Aylesbury newspaper containing the funeral sermon on Admiral W. H. Smyth. Misses Smyth very much. Hopes JH is well.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel2544

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Adam Sedgwick
Date:
[3 October 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.453 (C: RS:HS 24.123)
Summary:

JH's daughter Maria is getting married. JH has been ill. The Iliad translation is almost finished.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1956

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Editor of the Intellectual Observer
Date:
[3 October 1865]
Source of text:
DMC 695A.885.35
Summary:

A French civil engineer having proposed in the previous issue of the IO the idea of supporting roofs on the principle of the suspension bridge, JH reports that JH came up with this idea in 1836 and provides a sketch of such that JH made in that year.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3097

From:
Adolphe Quetelet
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[4 October 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.262
Summary:

Was in Paris when JH's letter arrived. Will print JH's article. Asks if there are changes to be made. Discusses future project Physique sociale, which will include theory of probability applied to ethics and political science.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4504

From:
Jacob Tomlin
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[5 October 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.439
Summary:

Requests JH's opinions on his theories of origins of language. Believes Hebrew is the root of all languages.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel2545

From:
Adam Sedgwick
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[6 October 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.454
Summary:

Thanks AS for his letter. Offers congratulations to newly married Maria Herschel. Will be returning to Cambridge to give his 46th course of lectures.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4087

From:
Charles Pritchard
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[6 October 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.97
Summary:

Asks if JH anticipated the results of W. L. Newman's work on lens curvature.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11145

From:
Hermann Kindt
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[6 October 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.33
Summary:

Requests that JH send a few lines for a friend of HK's who is trying to develop a facsimile reproduction system.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4896

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[10 October 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.283 (C: RGO 6.381.442)
Summary:

Concerning JH's memorial to W. R. Hamilton's daughter. Holiday in Keswick. Comments on JH's papers on optics and force.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10795

From:
Helen E. A. Hamilton
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[10 October 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.149
Summary:

Her mother is suffering from inflammation of the eyes so is unable to reply to his kind letter. Her father had a warm regard for his old friends.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3175

From:
Robert Francis Suft
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[13 October 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.247
Summary:

Asks JH to send memorandum about position of senior clerks at Royal Mint.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4609

From:
Thomas Maclear
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[13 October 1865]
Source of text:
Cape Archives/Maclear Papers File 100
Summary:

Appeal in J. S. Parlby case fails.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel14723

From:
George Griffith
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[14 October 1865]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0921.2; Reel 1083
Summary:

Resolution reappointing JH and others to examine K. L. C. Rümker's astronomical observations in southern hemisphere and determine if these should be published.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel14724

From:
George Griffith
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[14 October 1865]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0921.3; Reel 1083
Summary:

Resolution reappointing JH and others to Lunar Committee to continue mapping surface of moon.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel14725

From:
George Griffith
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[14 October 1865]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0921.4; Reel 1083
Summary:

Resolution reappointing JH and others to Balloon Committee for further experiments.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel355

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[16 October 1865]
Source of text:
RGO 6.478.479 (drafts RS:HS 1.284 & 24.12)
Summary:

Is working on a problem in polarized light, and finds his result disagreeing with F. J. D. Arago's third law; leads JH to think light cannot be undulatory in nature.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4897

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[18 October 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.285 (ACCS: RGO 6.15.75)
Summary:

Writes about a long standing, very old, member of the Royal Observatory's Board of Visitors [W. H. Smyth] having been summarily dismissed from the Board.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4898

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[18 October 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.286 (C: RGO 6.478.481)
Summary:

Explaining JH's polarization difficulty [see JH's 1865-10-16].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11184

From:
J. B. Kearney
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[18 October 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.74
Summary:

Congratulations on the marriage of one of JH's daughters [Maria Sophia]. Well remembers the hours he spent with JH. Has had to struggle for a living. Gives some of his theories on music and light that he will not be able to transmit to print.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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