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From:
[John] Lee
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1 March 1847]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0329; Reel 1087
Summary:

Plans to send parcel to observatory at Cape of Good Hope; does JH have anything to include?

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
James David Forbes
Date:
[1 March 1847]
Source of text:
St. Andrews 10a (C: RS:HS 22.304)
Summary:

Believes all actinometric measurements made are useless because they did not take into account the rate of expansion of the liquid, which is not constant.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
John P. Gassiot
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[2 March 1847]
Source of text:
RS:HS 8.54
Summary:

Regrets he was unable to see JH when in town last week. Outlines the scheme for a new club.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Henry Smyth
Date:
[2 March 1847]
Source of text:
RS:HS 22.305
Summary:

Plans to write John Russell in an effort to secure a pension for Thomas Maclear; asks for R.A.S. and WS's support. Asks WS to obtain some facts relevant to pension request.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Edward Sabine
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1847?]-3-3.
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.307
Summary:

Glad JH is writing the meteorology. Collecting materials for charts of ocean. Forwards some of this to JH for comments.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
James David Forbes
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[4 March 1847]
Source of text:
St. Andrews LB IV, 214-16 (C: RS:HS 7.309)
Summary:

Sympathizes with JH's feelings of regret over actinometer readings. Has procured a new thermometer and carried out experiments toward correction of actinometers.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Robert Hunt
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[3 March 1847]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.125
Summary:

Is desirous of procuring impressions of prismatic spectra from all parts of the globe. These should show the chemical influence of the solar rays. The B.A.A.S. may be able to help or Colonel Edward Sabine. Can JH use his influence?

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Henry Smyth
Date:
[4 March 1847]
Source of text:
RS:HS 22.306
Summary:

Asks WS if possible to enclose a note by Francis Beaufort to John Russell concerning request for pension for Thomas Maclear. Lays aside double star observations; continues work on orbit equation.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Unidentified
Date:
[4 March 1847]
Source of text:
WT 67597.3
Summary:

In response to a request, JH is not willing to part with any letters from his father, William, but will send one of William Herschel's notes to his sister, Caroline.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
John P. Gassiot
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[5 March 1847]
Source of text:
RS:HS 8.55
Summary:

Thanks for his note. Is writing to remove any misconceptions JH may have about the proposed new club. Michael Faraday will be joining on condition that there will be no dinners.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Piazzi Smyth
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[6 March 1847]
Source of text:
RS:HS 16.230
Summary:

W. S. Jacob sends Alpha Centauri observations to R.A.S.; uses JH's Cape Results as a guide to double stars.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Augustus De Morgan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[8 March 1847]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.235
Summary:

Giving details of Thatcham Church and of the tablet, which is to be erected in memory of Francis Baily. Sculptor will be sending proof of the inscription.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Henry Smyth
Date:
[9 March 1847]
Source of text:
RS:HS 307 (C: RS:HS 22.307)
Summary:

Asks WS to take the chair at the next meeting of the R.A.S [probably concerning the Adams-Leverrier dispute].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Henry Sykes
Date:
[11 March 1847]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.143 (C: RS:HS 22.308)
Summary:

Notes that actinometer observations prove faulty due to problem with instruments. Asks that WS notify Indian observatories to join others in terminating such observations until JH finds method of getting around problem.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
James P. Muirhead
Date:
[12 March 1847]
Source of text:
RS:HS 12.381 & 22.309
Summary:

Thanks for sending his book on the Correspondence of James Watt. Hopes to give it the attention it deserves, but meanwhile comments on the water controversy of Henry Cavendish, Joseph Priestley, and James Watt.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
John Forbes, D.D.
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[13 March 1847]
Source of text:
RS:HS 7.372
Summary:

Believes he has succeeded in integrating elliptic and hyperbolic functions in finite terms, and sends a paper in which this is discussed.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Charles Richard Weld
Date:
[13 March 1847]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.392 (C: 22.310)
Summary:

George III defrayed all costs (£4000) for William Herschel's 40-feet reflecting telescope. JH began dismantling it in Dec. 1839. Lenses and equipment are in storage. Tube's internal structure of corrugated iron and framework's diagonal bracing were originated by WH.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Henry Smyth
Date:
[17 March 1847]
Source of text:
RS:HS 22.311
Summary:

Proposal of giving medals to both J. C. Adams and U. J. J. Leverrier by William Whewell turned down by R.A.S.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Edward Joseph Lowe
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[19 March 1847]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.313
Summary:

Sends a work for JH; would he also present the other copy to the R.S.L.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
[Karl] Herman Knoblauch
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[20 March 1847]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.86
Summary:

Sending treatises on radiant heat for the R.S.L. and JH.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project