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Herschel7594

From:
Eduard Heis
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[2 February 1848]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 10/5.111; Reel 9
Summary:

Gratitude for receipt of JH's Cape Results. Owning no instruments, EH appreciated JH's chapter on 'naked eye' astronomy. Notes and drawings of variable stars.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel318

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[2 February 1848]
Source of text:
RGO 6.2.156
Summary:

Agrees that some of JH's suggestions about meteor showers were probably unnecessary [see GA's 1848-1-29].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel398

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[2 February 1848]
Source of text:
RGO 6.230.444
Summary:

Is aware of T. J. Hussey's drawings [see GA's 1848-2-1]; needs information about P. A. Hansen's lunar theory for an appreciation JH is to provide.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4804

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[3 February 1848]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.194 (C: RGO 6.230.221)
Summary:

Concerning P. A. Hansen's observations of Lunar irregularities.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6972

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Augustus De Morgan
Date:
[3 February 1848]
Source of text:
RS:HS 23.10
Summary:

Some additional details about JH's aunt Caroline [see JH's 1848-1-27].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3742

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Richard Sheepshanks
Date:
[3 February 1848]
Source of text:
RS:HS 16.84 (C: RS:HS 25.9.52)
Summary:

JH must arrange for the celebration of Bishop's Observatory. Needs information on its equipment, achievements, and staff, e.g., on W. R. Dawes's and J. R. Hind's observations. Will contact Hind.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6772

From:
William Rutter Dawes
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[3 February 1848]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.89
Summary:

Has found that Orionus is a double star. Compares William Lassell's and Wilhelm Struve's observations of various stars.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6973

From:
Augustus De Morgan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[4 February 1848]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.241
Summary:

Sending something from Airy relating to the testimonial. Anything he does not use can be returned to Somerset House for AD.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6694

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[4 February 1848]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.11
Summary:

As JH has accepted the superintendency of the Admiralty Manual he will try to undertake the geological part, but it will take time as he is busy on another project.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-1151

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Frederick William Herschel, 1st baronet
Date:
4 Feb 1848
Source of text:
The Royal Society (HS6: 11)
Summary:

Undertakes to write geological part of Admiralty Instructions [A manual of scientific enquiry (1849), Collected papers 1: 227–50]. Has doubts as to his success.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel1371

From:
William Henry Fox Talbot
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[4 February 1848]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.320
Summary:

Has performed experiments measuring the deviation of spectra through an obliquely placed diffraction grating. Believes they strongly support the wave theory of light.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel13713

From:
Francis Beaufort
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[5 February 1848]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0068; Reel 1087 (ACC: Hydrographic Office Letter Book)
Summary:

Received yesterday JH's receipts for payment of Cape telescope. Forwarded these to accountant general of Navy.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel5480

From:
Francis Beaufort
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[5 February 1848]
Source of text:
RS:HS 3.381
Summary:

Informing him of the recent death of Mrs. Lestock Wilson.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11636

From:
M. Macann
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[7 February 1848]
Source of text:
RS:HS 12.1
Summary:

Has been carrying out researches on the reflection of light. Would like JH to communicate his paper on this subject to the R.S.L.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6974

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Augustus De Morgan
Date:
[7 February 1848]
Source of text:
RS:HS 23.11
Summary:

Needs clarification about John Lubbock's planetary theory; thanks for G. B. Airy's lunar reductions.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel14716

From:
Unidentified
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[7 February 1848]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0916; Reel 1083
Summary:

[P.S. on verso of cover. Rest of letter is missing.] Notified Mrs. Knipping of kind wishes sent by JH and wife. Will notify JH when personal effects of Caroline Lucretia Herschel have been inventoried and distributed according to JH's directions. Questions fate of [telescope] given to [J. F. L.] Hausmann by Caroline Herschel now that Hausmann is dead. Suggests donating it to observatory at Göttingen or to 'Archiv' in Hanover.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7571

From:
Pierre Daussy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[8 February 1848]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 10/5.88; Reel 9
Summary:

Thanks JH for the gift of a copy of JH's Cape Results, and admires it greatly.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3743

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Richard Sheepshanks
Date:
[8 February 1848]
Source of text:
RS:HS 16.85 (C: RS:HS 25.9.53)
Summary:

Returns [Max] Weisse's manuscript. He must say something about it and so has swallowed 'whole hog' what RS had written about it. Will make a mess [in his R.A.S. address] of John Lubbock's work on perturbations.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7613

From:
Alfred Gautier
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[9 February 1848]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 10/5.130; Reel 9
Summary:

Informs JH that JH has been made an honorary member of the Physical and Natural History Society of Geneva; the Society thanks JH for a copy of his Cape Results. Comments on F. V. Mauvais's discovery of a comet and on the illness and death of Caroline Herschel. Will send comments on some of JH's astronomical work later.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel14140

From:
Alfred Miles
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[9 February 1848]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0367; Reel 1087
Summary:

Paid £5 into JH's account at Drummond's Bank today.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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