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Herschel5732

From:
Edward William Brayley
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[7 June 1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS 4.221
Summary:

Is applying for professorship at Addiscombe Military College and would like JH's support.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel5733

From:
Edward William Brayley
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[28 June 1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS 4.222
Summary:

Has been ill, which accounts for the delay in answering his letter. Has applied for the position at Addiscombe. Remarks concerning volcanoes and his own and JH's queries regarding them.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel5734

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Edward William Brayley
Date:
[3 July 1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS 4.223 & 23.381
Summary:

Sorry to hear of his illness. Answers to his queries regarding the colloid state of ice. Cannot agree about metals of alkalis and earths uncombined in the earth.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel5735

From:
Edward William Brayley
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[5 July 1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS 4.224
Summary:

Was pleased to obtain JH's news regarding ice. Agrees with him about metals of alkalis in the earth. Further regarding volcanoes.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel5736

From:
Edward William Brayley
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[25 July 1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS 4.225
Summary:

Sends articles he has written for the English Encyclopaedia. Still awaiting results of the professorship at Addiscombe.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel5737

From:
Edward William Brayley
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[31 December 1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS 4.226
Summary:

Would like to pass on JH's views on ice to A. R. Abbott, who is giving a lecture on glaciers at the Friend's Institute. Remarks on storms. Confusion of Thomas Young's views with JH's. Regarding JH's paper on earthquakes and volcanoes.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1536

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Edward William Brayley
Date:
[1 January 1863]
Source of text:
APS B.H435p.21 (C: RS:HS 24.1)
Summary:

JH criticizes [Robert] Mallet's views on the nature of earthquakes and the upheaval of the earth.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel5738

From:
Edward William Brayley
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[18 December 1863]
Source of text:
RS:HS 4.227
Summary:

Gassiot has just informed him of his experiments on the sun's light. Importance of this in relation to present theories.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel5739

From:
Edward William Brayley
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[29 November 1864]
Source of text:
RS:HS 4.228
Summary:

Sends his article on the sun and the British Almanac for 1865. Regarding various current theories relating to the sun. The professorship he applied for has not materialized.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel5740

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Edward William Brayley
Date:
[7 December 1864]
Source of text:
RS:HS 4.229 & 24.75
Summary:

Calling his attention to one of his own articles. Concerning Mr. Magers and Roger Boscovitch's views. Concerning Magellanic Clouds.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel5741

From:
Edward William Brayley
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[21 December 1864]
Source of text:
RS:HS 4.230
Summary:

[John] Davy's letter mentioning JH is published in the current P.M. Regarding JH's and Mr. Magers's psychic views.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel5742

From:
Edward William Brayley
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[25 March 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 4.231
Summary:

Regarding certain passages in JH's Cape Observations.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel5743

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Edward William Brayley
Date:
[26 March 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.101
Summary:

On the physical structure of the sun's surface.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel5744

From:
Edward William Brayley
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[31 March 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 4.232
Summary:

His views regarding the constitution of the sun coincides with JH's. Is giving a lecture for J. P. Gassiot in which he would like to quote some of JH's views.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel5745

From:
Edward William Brayley
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[24 November 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 4.233
Summary:

Sending comparison to Almanac of 1866. Concerning meteorites. Now principal librarian and professor at the Institution.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel5746

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Edward William Brayley
Date:
[4 December 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.131
Summary:

Questions EB's use of terms 'ponderable' and 'imponderable' matter in EB's almanac.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel5747

From:
Edward William Brayley
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[8 March 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 4.234
Summary:

Has answered Smith's request by letter this evening. Thanks for the specimen of the meteorite.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel5748

From:
Edward William Brayley
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[20 December 1867]
Source of text:
RS:HS 4.235
Summary:

Sending the syllabus of Mr. Ellis's lecture. Has sent to JH's son [Alexander] a paper on meteors, which contains his views in cosmical philosophy. Elected Laurence Parsons (4th Earl of Rosse) to the R.S.L. yesterday.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel5749

From:
Edward William Brayley
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[7 March 1868]
Source of text:
RS:HS 4.236
Summary:

Giving some lectures and asks JH for permission to quote from his writings

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel5752

From:
Edward William Brayley
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1869]
Source of text:
RS:HS 4.238
Summary:

Encloses copies of papers referred to in his previous letter.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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