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Herschel13055

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Richard Strachey
Date:
1867-10
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0467; Reel 1055
Summary:

Offers advice to president of committee for adoption of uniform system of weights and measures for India.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel13056

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Richard Strachey
Date:
1867-10
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0468 (C: 0469 & 0470); Reel 1055
Summary:

Offers advice to president of committee for adoption of uniform system of weights and measures for India.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel2595

From:
William Selwyn
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[12 October 1867]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.493
Summary:

Lack of circularity in some solar autographs is due to clouds. Discusses a quote regarding stars in the Southern Hemisphere. Also, Aristotle's examination of the eye.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel2040

From:
Eliza Susan Quincy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[15 October 1867]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.283
Summary:

Sent her father's [Josiah Quincy] memoirs to London as JH directed. Praises JH's Iliad translation, Cape Results, and astronomical career.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel2180

From:
Henry Enfield Roscoe
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[15 October 1867]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.425
Summary:

Will forward information on spectrum analysis when he receives it. Asks if JH is interested in studying the photochemistry of the sun during the upcoming eclipse.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7210

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Augustus De Morgan
Date:
[16 October 1867]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.207
Summary:

Requests AD send JH an astronomical drinking song.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7211

From:
Augustus De Morgan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[18 October 1867]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.400
Summary:

His son George has died and was buried yesterday. Wife is bearing up well. Is ready to assent to the publication of the song.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6708

From:
Charles G. B. Daubeny
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[18 October 1867]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.25
Summary:

Editor cannot complain of JH's decision not to allow him to insert his poem on the telescope as that of Augustus De Morgan substituted is so good. Book will include poems of both dead and living men. Has unfortunately damaged the copy of De Morgan.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7212

From:
Augustus De Morgan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[23 October 1867]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.401
Summary:

Has managed to write out the song and insert the Blaise Pascal verse. Gave some advice to an Assurance Office yesterday, so he must be improving. Illness in his family this season has taken the form of great prostration. Gives curious confirmation of Isaac Newton's lack of knowledge of French. Blaise Pascal affair is growing into an epic.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel2181

From:
Henry Enfield Roscoe
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[25 October 1867]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.426
Summary:

Pleased that JH's son [John] will examine the chemical intensity of the sun during the eclipse. Offers suggestions for successful experiment. Sends paper regarding chemical intensity at the tropics.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8954

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Photographic News
Date:
[27 October 1867]
Source of text:
Photographic News, 11 (Nov. 8, 1867), 541-2
Summary:

Maintains that JH did not invent the thaumsacope [thaumatrope], which some have ascribed to him. JH does note that he proposed moving pictures in an 1860 publication, five years before Alonzo G. Grant sought patent protection for this idea.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10780

From:
Robert Hunt
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[28 October 1867]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.133
Summary:

Has been requested by the Editor of the Quarterly Journal of Science to write a paper on JH and modern astronomy. Would like JH's sanction, and also a few notes on the most important aspects.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1447

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Gabriel Stokes
Date:
[29 October 1867]
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library 7656/RS617
Summary:

Asks GS to explain to R.S.L. Council why JH's son John cannot appear at a meeting of the Council, as he is due to sail for India.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3178

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[30 October 1867]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.401 (C: RI 541)
Summary:

Asks whether Michael Faraday's work with glass resulted in improved manufacturing or if rather its main scientific value was in discovery of diamagnetism.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel2979

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Adolphe Quetelet
Date:
[30 October 1867]
Source of text:
Académie belgique: #45 (C: #46)
Summary:

Ashamed not to have written sooner. Has received AQ's meteorology of Belgium. Wishes success with his work on social physics. Enjoyed AQ's Histoire des sciences mathématique et physique chez les belges. Disgusted that the French insist Isaac Newton stole his ideas on the system of gravitation from Blaise Pascal. Hopes to send AQ his 'synopsis of all micrometrical measures' made by William Herschel on double stars. Sends Latin version of Friedrich Schiller's 'Spaziergang.'

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4017

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Robert Hunt
Date:
[30 October 1867]
Source of text:
George Eastman House, 17.17 (C: RS:HS 24.208)
Summary:

In response to RH's 1867-10-28, JH sends a list of his writings on astronomy.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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