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Herschel7271

From:
Elizabeth Drummond [Jr.]
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1868-7 or later]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.452
Summary:

Has received his translation of Inferno safely, and it has been greatly admired by competent judges. Weather has been very bad. He can keep the extract from the Examiner.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10670

From:
Sir William Huggins
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[2 July 1868]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.42
Summary:

Has just found that the bands of light from the comet are resolved by the spectroscope into bands that constitute a modified form of carbon. The spectrum of the comet was compared directly with a current of olefiant gas.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1726

From:
Smith, Elder & Co.
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[3 July 1868]
Source of text:
RS:HS 16.213
Summary:

Note accompanying shipping of a specially bound volume of JH's Cape Results. JH has noted on back of letter that volume will be returned as it arrived without plates or frontispiece.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10994

From:
Henry Bence Jones
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1868]-7-6.
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.340
Summary:

John Tyndall left London in a hurry, but he has urged the claims of JH's son [Alexander] as a professor at the School of Mines.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11529

From:
Sir Charles Lyell
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[6 July 1868]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.444
Summary:

Much obliged for calling his attention to M. C. E. Du Four's paper, though he cannot reconcile the general reasoning. Comments on the effect of the Sirocco on the Föhn of the Alps.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4224

From:
Sir Henry Taylor
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[6 July 1868]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.326
Summary:

Thanks JH for sending JH's work on Dante's Divine Comedy. Confesses not to be a Dante expert, but believes terza rima best for the poem in English.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10671

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Sir William Huggins
Date:
[6 July 1868]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.219
Summary:

Comments on WH's spectroscopic examination of cometary tails [see WH's 1868-7-2].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1727

From:
Smith, Elder & Co.
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[6 July 1868]
Source of text:
RS:HS 16.214
Summary:

Apology for errors in binding [see SE's 1868-7-3]; new volume being bound.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6611

From:
William B. Clarke
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[6 July 1868]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.348
Summary:

Sending details of the atmosphere being affected by the new moon. Has not regularly received his astronomical notices owing to a fault in the address. News of scientific happenings in Australia.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel989

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
John Herschel (son)
Date:
[8 July 1868]
Source of text:
JHS 6.48
Summary:

Comments on son John's spectroscopic and telescopic observations, and encourages observing a particular nebula, as it has been reported as having changed shape since JH observed it in the 1830's.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3525

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[11 July 1868]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.402
Summary:

JT has suggested that JH's son [Alexander] be appointed to position in Royal School of Mines, but colleagues, unwisely, JT thinks, want someone more well-known.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11530

From:
Sir Charles Lyell
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[11 July 1868]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.445
Summary:

Sends Captain [P. F.] Shortland's account of his recent soundings and temperatures of the sea. Comments on these readings in the light of theory. What does JH think of the matter.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel5046

From:
Georg F. J. A. Auwers
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[13 July 1868]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.425
Summary:

Would like to visit JH at Collingwood.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1516

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Sir Charles Lyell
Date:
[13 July 1868]
Source of text:
APS B.D25.L.20 (C: RS:HS 24.220)
Summary:

On the temperatures of water in the oceans, and the freezing temperature of sea water.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10554

From:
Henry Holland
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
14 July [1868]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.431
Summary:

JH's translation of first canto of Dante's Inferno (1868) is best HH has ever seen. Thanks for JH's commendation of HH's own translations [?]. More observations of soap bubbles.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3249

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
[George Gabriel Stokes]
Date:
[14 July 1868]
Source of text:
RS RR.6.101
Summary:

Reports on and recommends publication of paper [R.S.P.T., 159, 1-] by Warren de La Rue, Balfour Stewart, and Benjamin Loewy containing heliographic positions and areas of sunspots observed in 1862 and 1863.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel5047

From:
Georg F. J. A. Auwers
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[15 July 1868]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.426
Summary:

Will visit JH at Collingwood on Friday.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel5390

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Charles Babbage
Date:
[15 July 1868]
Source of text:
RS:HS 2.337
Summary:

Invitation to attend the wedding of JH's daughter Amelia.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel14709

From:
Marianne Spring-Rice
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
22 July [1868]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0907; Reel 1083
Summary:

Gratitude for gift of JH's translation [Dante?]. Pending marriage of Amelia Herschel to Thomas Wade.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel12089

From:
John Murray [Jr.]
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
25 July [1868]
Source of text:
RS:HS 12.456
Summary:

Has heard from Mrs. Greig [wife of Woronzow Greig] that JH has consented to read the proof sheets of Mrs. Mary Somerville's work on molecular science. Sends the first 44 pages and would be pleased for any comments. Mrs. Somerville is in Naples.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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