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Herschel6474

From:
James Challis
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1 April 1869]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.242
Summary:

Is pleased with the interest JH is taking in his volume. Understands the difficulty of comprehending it at once. Further comments on his own dynamical theory of dispersion.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7903

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Robert Waterhouse
Date:
[1 April 1869]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.107 (C: 24.255)
Summary:

Thanks for answers and for notice on Apteryx [Maerurus ?], which JH remembers watching Richard Owen inspect. Interested in W. B. Carpenter's and C. W. Thomson's ['Bathybius?]' as origin of chalk-flint. Discusses inorganic chemical allotropes. Organic allotropes may exist, serving as 'agents of vital action' and subject to a higher power.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel12505

From:
Christian August Friedrich Peters
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[5 April 1869]
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.371
Summary:

Comments on exchange of astronomical works with JH. CP expects to improve the observatory library now that the Prussians have taken over Altona. Is making arrangements to carry out some pendulum experiments.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10184

From:
Amédée Victor Guillemin
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[10 April 1869]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.71
Summary:

Is preparing a new edition of his book Le ciel, which J. N. Lockyer is translating into English. Would like to reproduce new information on shooting stars and meteors and would like JH's assistance.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel12087

From:
John Murray [Jr.]
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
19 April [1869]
Source of text:
RS:HS 12.454
Summary:

Is prepared to take charge of Mrs. Mary Somerville's memoir. Found her wonderfully well when he met her at Naples.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

SOMERVILLE341

From:
John Murray JR
To:
John Herschel
Date:
19 Apr 1869?
Source of text:
HS 12.454, RS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse

Herschel12088

From:
John Murray [Jr.]
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
22 April [1869]
Source of text:
RS:HS 12.455
Summary:

Has safely received the packet containing Mrs. Mary Somerville's manuscript. She has been awarded the Victoria medal of the Geographical Society.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

SOMERVILLE342

From:
John Murray JR
To:
John Herschel
Date:
22 Apr 1869?
Source of text:
HS 12.455, RS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse

Herschel10823

From:
William E. Hearn
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[24 April 1869]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.175
Summary:

Is pleased that his book, the Government of England, meets with JH's approval.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel2927

From:
Wilhelm Schur
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[25 April 1869]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.180
Summary:

Is happy that his discovery of 70 Ophiuchi was included in JH's catalogue of double stars. Thanks for correction on a logarithm of the focal point equation; intends to change this in Astronomische Nachrichten.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11926

From:
Russell Henry Manners
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[26 April 1869]
Source of text:
RS:HS 12.288
Summary:

Thanks for the additional information regarding Argus by Elias Loomis and J. Tebbutt; it will appear in the next R.A.S.M.N.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel991

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
John Herschel (son)
Date:
1869-4-27 or earlier
Source of text:
JHS 6.46
Summary:

Talks about problems of observing nebulae—one of which seems to have changed—and one of which is in the catalogue and does not seem to exist.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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