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From:
Frederick W. Beechey
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[24 May 1848]
Source of text:
RS:HS 4.10
Summary:

Regarding his own publication on hydrography and welcoming any suggestion from JH on various points.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Frederick W. Beechey
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[30 May 1848]
Source of text:
RS:HS 4.11
Summary:

Is pleased to hear that his paper is of some use. Various queries regarding the work in question.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Frederick W. Beechey
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
5 June [1848]
Source of text:
RS:HS 4.12
Summary:

Is sending a sketch of methods to make a scale to meet increasing pressure at depths. Perhaps JH could suggest a suitable instrument.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Frederick W. Beechey
Date:
[6 June 1848]
Source of text:
RS:HS 4.13 & 23.27
Summary:

Sending suggestions for a sympiesometer.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Frederick W. Beechey
Date:
[7 June 1848]
Source of text:
RS:HS 4.14 & 23.28
Summary:

Further suggestion for the sympiesometer.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Frederick W. Beechey
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[9 June 1848]
Source of text:
RS:HS 4.15
Summary:

Thanks for his suggestions and gives a possible modification.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Frederick W. Beechey
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[12 June 1848]
Source of text:
RS:HS 4.16
Summary:

Is going to get one of the instruments that JH suggested manufactured. Would he therefore send the dimensions of the instrument.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Frederick W. Beechey
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[17 June 1848]
Source of text:
RS:HS 4.17
Summary:

Further queries about the manufacture of the sympiesometer. Will be moving to Shirehampton in a few days time.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Frederick W. Beechey
Date:
[18 June 1848]
Source of text:
RS:HS 4.18 & 23.31
Summary:

Answers to FB's queries concerning the sympiesometer.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Frederick W. Beechey
Date:
[20 June 1848]
Source of text:
RS:HS 4.19 & 23.32
Summary:

Further points regarding the sympiesometer.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Frederick W. Beechey
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[28 June 1848]
Source of text:
RS:HS 4.20
Summary:

Thanks for his suggestions on the instrument, which E. A. L. Negretti is working on. Gives some more details of the instrument.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Frederick W. Beechey
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[12 September 1848]
Source of text:
RS:HS 4.21
Summary:

Francis Beaufort thinks that FB's essay in the Admiralty Manual should include a few lines on the height of the waves of the ocean. FB has asked Beaufort to write these lines.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Frederick W. Beechey
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[8 January 1849]
Source of text:
RS:HS 4.22
Summary:

Has at last received his letter and withdrawn the index.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project