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Herschel4131

From:
John T. Towson
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1 September 1846]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.359
Summary:

Thanks JH for suggestions on his methods and on publishing his work.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel5538

From:
Charles T. Beke
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[2 September 1846]
Source of text:
RS:HS 4.28
Summary:

Hopes that he will accept the accompanying pamphlet. Would like to make his acquaintance at some future date.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4127

From:
Charles Piazzi Smyth
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[5 September 1846]
Source of text:
RS:HS 16.227
Summary:

Thanks JH for spotting error in a publication about the Edinburgh Observatory. Discusses 'the planet that is expected to be found beyond Uranus.' Asks JH to help him send astronomical news to Thomas Maclear.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel12377

From:
Charles William Pasley
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[5 September 1846]
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.234
Summary:

Would like to see C. F. Schönbein's invention tried but has not the means to afford any assistance at the moment. Understands that Edward Sabine is to introduce Schönbein to the Master General of Ordnance, so he will be in good hands.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel14122

From:
Robert Mallet
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[5 September 1846]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0346; Reel 1087
Summary:

Sends results of RM's experiment on wave motion and earthquakes that RM will report at B.A.A.S. meeting in Southampton. Proposes new committee to implement RM's project.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11238

From:
William Lassell
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[7 September 1846]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.129
Summary:

Details of WL's observations of the seventh satellite of Saturn.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel13755

From:
[S?] Bold
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[8 September 1846]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0109.1; Reel 1087
Summary:

Invites JH to join SB and Mr. Bold at 'our stable' tomorrow evening. Hopes [J. B. A.] Dumas will arrive from Paris then.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4007

From:
Robert John Kane
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[8 September 1846]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.1
Summary:

Is about to leave for a journey through Belgium and Germany for the purpose of studying collegiate education on behalf of the Irish government. Would welcome any letters of introduction from JH.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3783

From:
William Samuel Stratford
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[9 September 1846]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0545.3; Reel 1093
Summary:

WS has been quite ill for nearly a month. Sends the rest of the proof sheets of the catalogue [J. J. L.] Lalande's Catalogue of Those Stars in the Histoire céleste française... or of N. L. Lacaille's Catalogue of 9766 Stars in the Southern Hemisphere.]

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel5539

From:
Charles T. Beke
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[10 September 1846]
Source of text:
RS:HS 4.29
Summary:

Thanks for his letter and friendly sentiments. Hopes to meet him at Southampton, though there are difficulties.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10625

From:
Luke Howard
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[10 September 1846]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.6
Summary:

Hopes his friends will support the publication of his Barometrographia, which will be exhibited at the forthcoming B.A.A.S. meeting.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6813

From:
Henry T. De La Beche
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[21 September 1846]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.129
Summary:

Sending the first volume of the Memoirs for Great Britain.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel14155

From:
T. D. Morris-Stirling
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
21 September [1846]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0381; Reel 1087
Summary:

[Marked 'Private.'] Encloses copy of TM's letter to the Times responding to news report of TM's altercation with JH and [T. R.] Robinson at B.A.A.S. meeting.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel14713

From:
Unidentified
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
21] September [1846
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0913; Reel 1083
Summary:

Challenges JH's letter in the Times today justifying JH's remarks at B.A.A.S. that Charles Wheatstone invented electric telegraph. Believes Wheatstone 'pilfered' invention from Mr. Baines.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel9342

From:
Johann Franz Encke
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[22 September 1846]
Source of text:
RS:HS 7.96
Summary:

Asks for permission to look at R.S.L. letters from G. W. Leibniz to Henry Oldenburg; comments on dioptrics, and several astronomical topics.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel5856

From:
John Bullar
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[24 September 1846]
Source of text:
RS:HS 4.325
Summary:

Is obliged for his hints on saving heat in his ventilating apparatus. Comments on this and encloses leaflets on baths and wash-houses.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6756

From:
William Rutter Dawes
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[25 September 1846]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.74
Summary:

Thanks to JH's assistance the telescope was delivered safely and unopened. It is beautifully made.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10843

From:
John Hingston
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[27 September 1846]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.194
Summary:

Regarding Benjamin Peirce's Elementary Treatise on Sound. Can lend him his own copy if JH has no copy.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

RS-MM-000678

From:
Edward Sabine
To:
John Frederick William Herschel
Date:
29 September 1846
Source of text:
MM/11/184, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

Herschel10455

From:
John R. Hind
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[30 September 1846]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.333
Summary:

In case he has not received a letter from Berlin he sends details of the planet of U. J. J. Leverrier.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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