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Herschel11984

From:
William Allen Miller
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[17 January 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 12.346
Summary:

WM's friend William Huggins is a candidate for the fellowship of the R.S.L. and would be pleased for JH's support. Please return the certificate to WM when he has signed.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6717

From:
Gabriel Auguste Daubrée
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[20 January 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.34
Summary:

Says JH will receive an official letter of thanks from the administration of the Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle for the meteorite samples [see GD's 1865-1-23].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel2974

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Adolphe Quetelet
Date:
[21 January 1865]
Source of text:
Académie belgique: #37 (Transcription inc: #38)
Summary:

Lists works received. Has been suffering severely from bronchitic attacks. Is translating Iliad into hexameter verse.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11103

From:
Edward John Jennings
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[23 January 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.440
Summary:

Regrets that illness prevented JH's attendance at the Finance Committee. Gives the reasons why a change of uniform is necessary for the Rifle Volunteers.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6716

From:
Gabriel Auguste Daubrée
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[23 January 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.33
Summary:

Officially writes on behalf of the Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle to thank JH for his assistance in providing samples of the South African meteorite.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7584

From:
Henry Herman
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[23 January 1865]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 10/5.101; Reel 9
Summary:

Received seven copies [of JH's Cape Results]. Will forward these to India.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1265

From:
Charles Babbage
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[25 January 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS B27.29
Summary:

Commiserates with JH in his illness, and says CB is ill also and confined to his house. Seeing JH's letter in the Philosophical Magazine [see JH's 1864-12-20] seems to CB to obviate completely the need for any further response.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6553

From:
Bernard Cracroft
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[28 January 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.296
Summary:

Sending two pamphlets which he thinks are of great value, the one on the cure for sea-sickness being especially noteworthy. Would be glad of JH's support for Dr. John Chapman's claims.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11517

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Sir Charles Lyell
Date:
[29 January 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.430 & 24.83
Summary:

Sending a lump of a substance quarried near Edenderry; has found some very similar in a quarry of his own. Can send some more specimens. Congratulations on his Baronetcy. Has been prostrated with bronchitis.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel9225

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Whewell
Date:
[29 January 1865]
Source of text:
TC, Camb. Add. Ms.a.207116 (C: RS:HS 24.82)
Summary:

Sends Book XIV of JH's Iliad translation. Fears he may not live to finish it and may not find a publisher. Glorious winter in England. Son William and wife have arrived in Calcutta.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6858

From:
Warren de La Rue
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[30 January 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.166
Summary:

Encloses two certificates and hopes that he will give the candidates his support. Has just received a letter from Angelo Secchi on the Herschelian prism.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6554

From:
Bernard Cracroft
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[31 January 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.297
Summary:

Thanks for kind letter. Pamphlets should have reached him by now. Discourses on the effects of cold and heat on the spinal cord.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11518

From:
Sir Charles Lyell
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[31 January 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.431
Summary:

Origin of siliceous minerals sent by JH. Planning tenth edition of Principles of Geology. Convinced that changes in position of land and sea were principal causes of climate changes. Questions [James] Croll's theory of astronomical influences on climate, based on data from U. J. J. Le Verrier. Compares earth-pillars in Rhone valley with those in Tyrol. Wants tenth edition to include woodcut of JH's [1821?] drawings of earth-pillars.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6859

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Warren de La Rue
Date:
[31 January 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.167 & 24.84
Summary:

Returns the certificates duly signed and also Angelo Secchi's letter, which he was pleased to see. Elaborates on the possible causes of James Nasmyth's 'willow leaves.'

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8377

From:
Helen Underhill
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1865-2 or earlier]
Source of text:
RS:HS 19.176b
Summary:

Thanks for 'valuable addition' to HU's book.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel5655

From:
William Radcliffe Birt
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[2 February 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 4.144
Summary:

Notifying him of a forthcoming meeting of the Lunar Committee of the B.A.A.S. Hopes he will attend.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1502

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Sir Charles Lyell
Date:
[3 February 1865]
Source of text:
APS B.D25.L.6 (C: RS:HS 24:85)
Summary:

Comments on the revolution of the apsides of the earth's orbit and its effect on glacier theory; further comments on the earth pyramids of Botzen [see CL's 1865-1-31], and associated phenomena.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel12182

From:
W[illiam] J. Millar
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[3 February 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.40
Summary:

Having read JH's paper in Good Words on the weather he commenced a series of observations of the state of the sky during three days of each lunation. Will be pleased to continue sending his observations if JH is willing to accept them.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6556

From:
James Croll
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[4 February 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.299
Summary:

Sending his paper on the causes of change of climate, and would be glad of JH's comments and opinion on its worth.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3514

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Phillipp Ludwig von Seidel
Date:
[5 February 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.186 (C 2pp: 24.86)
Summary:

PS's results on light and magnitude of stars agree with JH's results at the Cape. Comments on PS's research on light of planets.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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