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From:
Count [Gerrit] Schimmelpenninck
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1 September 1847]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 10/5.94; Reel 9
Summary:

King of Netherlands received copy of JH's Cape Results and wishes to award gold medal to JH. Does JH accept?

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
William Rowan Hamilton
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1 September 1847]
Source of text:
unknown
Summary:

Wants WH's quaternion mathematics to be challenged; also worries that quaternions will become merely 'a private and personal skill' instead of a method that can be taught.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Count Revel
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[2 September 1847]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 10/5.118; Reel 9
Summary:

In response to JH's letter to the late Count [Polton?], Revel will forward two copies of JH's Cape Results to Turin for distribution to academic institutions.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
William Parsons (Lord Rosse)
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[2 September 1847]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 10/5.102; Reel 9
Summary:

Will call for JH's [Cape Results] when in London. One of WP's assistants reported ring around Neptune last winter, but WP is skeptical. Instruments idle for nine months. WP too busy with [Irish famine] relief. Wrote to T. R. Robinson to find competent assistant.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
[C. M. Wilke]
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
4 September [1847]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 10/5.45; Reel 9
Summary:

Thanks JH for citing CW's 'endeavours in connexion with Mr. [Sherman?].'

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
George Peacock
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[4 September 1847]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 10/6.8; Reel 9
Summary:

Will soon marry [Frances] Selwyn, sister of Bishop of New Zealand. Favorable comments on [Cape Results].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Georg Merz & Son
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[5 September 1847]
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.37
Summary:

Thanks for the address of the Admiralty; will send the instrument away in three weeks. Would JH send his observations to them via Williams Norgate (bookseller).

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
William Smith Williams
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[6 September 1847]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 10/3.8; Reel 9
Summary:

Received 112 epigraphs inscribed by JH for insertion into presentation copies [of JH's Cape Results], to be distributed as directed.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
James Constantine Adamson
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[7 September 1847]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.13
Summary:

Relating to the appointment of Langham Dale to the staff of the South African College.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
James William Grant
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[7 September 1847]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.25
Summary:

Has been appointed Apothecary General. His own wife's health has not been good. Hopes all is well at Collingwood. What is he doing about William? Comments on the field open to chemistry students.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Manuel John Johnson
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[7 September 1847]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 10/5.46; Reel 9
Summary:

Gratitude on behalf of observatory trustees for receipt of JH's Cape Results. Distributed copies as directed.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Élie François Wartmann
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[7 September 1847]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.93
Summary:

Comments on electrical equipment, and then refers to a variety of experiments, including shocking chickens awake that have been given ether, and the study of other electrical effects on gases and various liquid substances. Wonders about the use of ether/electric shock on humans in surgery. Congratulates JH on his Cape Results.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Adolphe Quetelet
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[8 September 1847]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 10/5.9; Reel 9
Summary:

[Form letter] Royal Academy of Science and Humanities acknowledges receipt of JH's Cape Results.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Edward Joshua Cooper
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[8 September 1847]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 10/5.103; Reel 9
Summary:

Praises JH's Cape Results. Sends EC's paper read at Royal Irish Academy, three engravings of EC's 'Circle,' and EC's recent work dabbling 'in other than Astronomical affairs.'

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir Francis Ronalds
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[9 September 1847]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.422
Summary:

Has had a compensating barometer constructed. Requests thoughts concerning compensating barometers. Sends some memos concerning pendulums and other topics.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Paul Partsch
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[10 September 1847]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.143
Summary:

Has received package in Turkey from JH. Sends thanks to JH through Sir Robert Brown. Values highly the gift of fragments from a meteor fallen near Cold-Bokkovold on 13 October 1838.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
William Yolland
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[10 September 1847]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 10/5.47; Reel 9
Summary:

As successor to T. F. Colby, WY invites JH to send offered copy of JH's Cape Results to library of Ordnance Survey.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
John Pringle Nichol
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[11 September 1847]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 10/5.119; Reel 9
Summary:

Gratitude for receipt of JH's Cape Results, donated to university library. David Brewster is head of St. Andrews College, and Daniel Dewar is head of Marischal College in Aberdeen. Hopes observatory will be complete when B.A.A.S. meets again in Glasgow.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Thomas Bell Elcock Fletcher
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[11 September 1847]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 10/5.48; Reel 9
Summary:

Will announce JH's offer to give [Cape Results] to Philosophical Institution's library.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
William Jerdan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
11 September [1847]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 10/6.10; Reel 9
Summary:

Sends copy of Literary Gazette, containing notice of [JH's Cape Results], which WJ saw while visiting mutual friend J. C. Ross.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project