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Herschel6231

From:
Francis Beaufort
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[2 September 1836]
Source of text:
RS:HS 3.350
Summary:

Is sending a paper which has barometrical information of interest. Comments on sea and atmospheric pressure. William Whewell and J. W. Lubbock are working on the tides.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7422

From:
Thomas Maclear
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
5] September [1836
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 7/3.18; Reel 8
Summary:

Sorry for surprise in church yesterday. Last minute request for JH and wife [to be godparents] was unplanned. Notes on 'Parallax & refraction.' Will soon observe all stars in [F. W.] 'Bessel's zone.'

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11653

From:
Sir James McGrigor
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[12 September 1836]
Source of text:
RS:HS 12.18
Summary:

JH has no need to apologize for bringing before him the case of Dr. Andrew Smith. Heard the news from Dr. John Murray. Will press Smith's request in the appropriate quarter. JH should address his request to Benjamin D'Urban.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6232

From:
Francis Beaufort
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[15 September 1836]
Source of text:
RS:HS 3.351
Summary:

Sending the meteorological reports. Hopes JH will let him know when to cease sending them. William Whewell has produced an interesting instrument. The sensation at the B.A.A.S. meeting was the manufacture of diamonds by a Frenchman.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11729

From:
Thomas Maclear
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[20 September 1836]
Source of text:
RS:HS 12.91
Summary:

Intends to dispatch the packet to the Admiralty in a few days and await Francis Beaufort's instructions regarding the printing. TM's son would be grateful for the Herschels' gift could he express thanks himself. Would like the loan of the actinometer. Sends the dome observations.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel12235

From:
John Henry Nelson
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[24 September 1836]
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.92
Summary:

Received the print of JH with great pleasure. The picture by H. W. Pickersgill seems a truthful likeness. The bulbs have been planted and are thriving. Has just returned from the continent, where he visited Caroline Herschel, who is still well in mind, but weak in body. Church building progresses at Slough.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11730

From:
Thomas Maclear
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
24 September [1836]
Source of text:
RS:HS 12.92
Summary:

Returns copies of the Comet observations and the formula for parallax and refraction. The 21st was a busy circle day. The mural circle is in better trim than ever. Sends a chronometer.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11731

From:
Thomas Maclear
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[28 September 1836]
Source of text:
RS:HS 12.93
Summary:

Barometer is swinging without encountering any accident. Believes there is to be a new clergyman at Rondebosch, the old Observatory housekeeper, John Fry, shortly to land from England. Hopes he is more adept at sermons than he was arranging the catalogue of instruments.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11732

From:
Thomas Maclear
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[28 September 1836]
Source of text:
RS:HS 12.94
Summary:

Encloses the sweeps for June 1836, which JH lent him. Not a word about printing, or the Tide gauge in the letters he received. Will forward the letters from G. B. Airy and Francis Baily. Thomas Henderson is about to be married. Cannot procure white deal without knots. Will try an old mast.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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