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Herschel7758

From:
James Forrest
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1 November 1867]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 14/3.7.2 verso; Reel 11
Summary:

[Form letter] Schedule of meetings for Institution of Civil Engineers. As honorary member, JH is invited to attend.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10781

From:
Robert Hunt
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1 November 1867]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.134
Summary:

Is grateful for his letter and will study the memoirs to which he refers. The Editor would also like a photograph; can JH oblige?

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8357

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Elizabeth Drummond [Jr.]
Date:
[2 November 1867]
Source of text:
RS:HS 19.159 (C: RS:HS 24.209)
Summary:

JH is 'shaky & feeble.' Pleased with biography of ED's brother Thomas. JH's son John and bride departed today for India. Deaths of JH's contemporaries. Describes Constance Herschel's whooping cough.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel577

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[3 November 1867]
Source of text:
RGO 6.359.536
Summary:

Writes to inquire as to the exact definition of the gallon and the pound, and the circumstances under which the appropriate measures would be made.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3412

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
[3 November 1867]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.210
Summary:

Believes Michael Faraday's boro-silicate of lead has not been used for telescopes, but JH and others have tried using it for other optical purposes. Describes method for producing veinless flint glass.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1821

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[4 November 1867]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0643.1 (C: RGO 6.359.537)
Summary:

Provides JH with best definition that GA has available for the gallon [see JH's 1867-11-3], noting that methods for establishing standards are revised, even if the standards supposedly are not.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8135

From:
Thomas Whitehouse
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[4 November 1867]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.402
Summary:

Plans for refracting telescope TW is constructing. Diagrams and questions about lens construction.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1475

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
East India Company
Date:
[5 November 1867]
Source of text:
APS 509.L56.20
Summary:

Feels that he has been quoted out of context, making it appear that JH favors the introduction of the metric system in India. This being not the case, JH then proceeds to show how the British system of measures is related to terrestrial measurements, especially the length of the earth's polar axis. In so doing, JH argues for the greater accuracy in the definition of the British units, as compared to the metric.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel13547

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
J[ohn] H[enry] Whitaker
Date:
5 November [1867]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0769.1; Reel 1089
Summary:

Has nothing of Mendelsohn to send to JW. Has R.S.L. letters, but JH does not want to part with them.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel13057

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Richard Strachey
Date:
[5 November 1867]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-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

Herschel11150

From:
Henry Samuel King
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[8 November 1867]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.38
Summary:

Soliciting articles for People's Magazine.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel9624

From:
Rodolphe Falb
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[8 November 1867]
Source of text:
RS:HS 7.364
Summary:

Sending details of his theory on meteorology and cometography and inviting JH's comments.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel2596

From:
William Selwyn
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[11 November 1867]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.494
Summary:

Sends JH a copy of 'Enoch.' Thanks JH for his helpful criticisms.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1448

From:
George Gabriel Stokes
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[18 November 1867]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.69
Summary:

About some instruments to be taken to India by JH's son John.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1449

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Gabriel Stokes
Date:
[20 November 1867]
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library 7656/H717
Summary:

Does not know if equipment from R.S.L. reached JH's son John at Southampton [see GS's 1867-11-18].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel13535

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
J. Melvill
Date:
[21 November 1867]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0763; Reel 1089
Summary:

Please transmit enclosed recommendations by JH to Richard Strachey or other members of committee to establish uniform system of weights and measures for India.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel5442

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Charles Babbage
Date:
22] November [1867
Source of text:
RS:HS 2.389
Summary:

News of the forthcoming marriage of his daughter. Everyone seems to be mad on making ice.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel14134

From:
J. Melvill
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[23 November 1867]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0355; Reel 1087
Summary:

Impressed by JH's argument against French metric system. Will forward JH's letter to Richard Strachey or, if Strachey is in Abyssinia, to committee for weights and measures in India.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8959

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
People's Magazine
Date:
[26 November 1867]
Source of text:
People's Magazine, new ser., 1 (Jan., 1868), 62-3
Summary:

Describes a method JH devised of producing 'autographic representations of fungi on glass.'

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8771

From:
William James Herschel
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[28 November 1867]
Source of text:
Sydney Ross Collection
Summary:

Reports his opposition, shared by JH, to Britain and India adopting the metric system. Discusses WH's wife, Emma, WH's brother John, a coming solar eclipse, and a theory of gravity.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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