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Herschel3510

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1866?]-2
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.399c
Summary:

Corrects misinformation about refraction and dispersion of mercury ethyl and mercury methyl.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4091

From:
Isaac Todhunter
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[2 February 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.357
Summary:

Makes suggestions for the solution to the three point probability problem using integrals of infinity.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6398

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Julia Margaret Cameron
Date:
[5 February 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.163 & 24.140
Summary:

Cannot give advice on the artistic merits of her photographs as he is not qualified, but offers suggestions and praise on the mechanics of the art.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11166

From:
Ernst F. W. Klinkerfues
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[8 February 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.56
Summary:

Sending a pamphlet on the quality of refracted light. Hopes JH will communicate it to the R.S.L.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4160

From:
B. W. S. Vallack
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[12 February 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.417a
Summary:

Responds to JH's criticisms of his binocular telescope plans.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4317

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
B. W. S. Vallack
Date:
[16 February 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.417b (C: RS:HS 24.141)
Summary:

Suggests weaknesses in BV's plans for a binocular telescope.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6633

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Elizabeth Colling
Date:
[16 February 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.142
Summary:

Main object in translating Homer was to 'wipe off the stigma cast on English hexameters by such people as Tennyson.'

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6399

From:
Julia Margaret Cameron
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[18 February 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.164
Summary:

Is grateful for the praise JH has given her photographic efforts. Intends to do a series of life-sized head photographs. Is anxious about Henry Taylor, who has been overworking in the colonial cause.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4114

From:
Charles Pritchard
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[19 February 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.98
Summary:

Informs JH, Charles Babbage, and James South that they are the surviving original members of the R.A S. Requests JH write an account of the R.A.S.'s founding. Discusses the evidence of the 'personal will' of God in creation.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4289

From:
Goodwin Kilburne
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[20 February 1866]
Source of text:
Harvard: Houghton AAH 67m-67 (63)
Summary:

Announces a committee meeting for a volunteer group.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11444

From:
John Lubbock
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[22 February 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.357
Summary:

Thanks for his letter. Agrees that the stones of Stonehenge must have come from the neighborhood. The chips in the barrows must have come from the hewn stones of Stonehenge.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3343

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
[George Gabriel Stokes]
Date:
[23 February 1866]
Source of text:
RS RR.6.149
Summary:

Reports on paper [R.S.P.T., 156, 181-] by [William] Huggins on spectra of certain nebulae with mode of determining their brightness. Doubts some presuppositions, but regards paper as fit for publication in R.S.P.T.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4164

From:
George Thurnell
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[23 February 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.437
Summary:

Praises JH's essay 'The Yard, the Pendulum, and the Metre.' Believes C. P. Smyth's theories concerning the Great Pyramid being a standard of measurement.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4082

From:
William Lloyd Birbeck
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[23 February 1866]
Source of text:
Harvard: Houghton AAH 67m-67 (62)
Summary:

Offers to purchase scientific manuscripts for JH at a sale in London.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8354

From:
Robert Hind
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1866-2-24 or earlie
Source of text:
RS:HS 19.157a
Summary:

Asks to visit JH today.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8516

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
[Jean Baptiste André Dumas]
Date:
[24 February 1866]
Source of text:
Académie des sciences (Paris)
Summary:

Thanks for having sent a copy of the works of Antoine Lavoisier [3 vols., 1862-65, ed. by JD].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11167

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Ernst F. W. Klinkerfues
Date:
[24 February 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.57
Summary:

Has now received his pamphlet. Does not agree with its findings, but will submit it to the R.S.L., though it cannot be printed in R.S.P.T. as it has already appeared elsewhere. Comments on some of EK's theories.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1433

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Gabriel Stokes
Date:
[24 February 1866]
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library 7656/H709 (ACCS: RS:HS 19.157b)
Summary:

Forwarding copy of paper by Ernst F. W. Klinkerfues; EK purports to show that movement of a star toward or away from an observer will affect its refraction in an achromatic prism.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel2568

From:
William Selwyn
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[25 February 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.475
Summary:

Says William Whewell has fallen from his horse and has been injured. Thanks JH for a paper he signed for the R.S.L.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel2569

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Selwyn
Date:
[26 February 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.143
Summary:

Has heard about William Whewell's accident. Hopes he will recover, but knows his advanced age may hinder this. Wishes WS to send news of progress.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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