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From:
William Empson
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
24 October [1847]
Source of text:
RS:HS 7.49
Summary:

Regarding progress with the printing and translation of Kosmos. Richard Jones has visited Alexander Baring (1st Baron Ashburton).

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
John R. Hind
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[25 October 1847]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.340
Summary:

Thanks for the neat name and symbol he has given to the new planet; thinks H. C. Schumacher has read Hora for Flora. The next one will have to be called Thetis as so many have suggested that name.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Henry Smyth
Date:
[25 October 1847]
Source of text:
RS:HS 22.331
Summary:

Thanks WS for copy of W. S. Jacob paper on American telescope. Hopes that Jacob will attempt Talbotypes of sun spots while at Aden.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Richard Sheepshanks
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[26 October 1847]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0538; Reel 1093
Summary:

Suggests alteration in list of observatories that JH sent to W. S. Stratford. Advises JH to include private astronomers on list also. News of [Elizabeth] Baily. Needs to borrow Francis Baily's apparatus for measuring length.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Thomas Makdougall Brisbane
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[26 October 1847]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 10/5.123; Reel 9
Summary:

Gratitude for receipt of JH's Cape Results. Glad that Parramatta catalogue was helpful. Laments government decision to do away with Parramatta observatory. TB suffering from rheumatism.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
William Henry Fox Talbot
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[26 October 1847]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.319
Summary:

Comments on astronomical symbols, and position of camera when photographing buildings.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Adolphe Quetelet
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[28 October 1847]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 10/5.10; Reel 9
Summary:

Thanks JH for a copy of JH's Cape Results. Is pleased by JH's encouragement of AQ's meteorological observations, about which AQ comments further. Speaks of a family of comets related to Mars and Jupiter and asks JH's opinion about this.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Peter Stewart
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[28 October 1847]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 10/3.16; Reel 9
Summary:

Received JH's note to present copies [of JH's Cape Results] to [James] Thomson, John Ruskin, and Chetham's Library [Manchester]. Of 350 copies allotted for gratis presentation, 289 copies have been sent and 61 remain. [Alexander] Henning paid for a copy, but PS notified him that he was on JH's list of recipients. Sends letter that PS received from James [Stewart] before James's recent arrival in York Terrace. Comments on proper way to handle failing businesses.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Prince di Castelcicala
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[28 October 1847]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 10/5.104; Reel 9
Summary:

Will forward [copies of JH's Cape Results] to Naples.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[28 October 1847]
Source of text:
RGO 6.230.187
Summary:

Clarifies the agenda for the next R.A.S. meeting, and reports that the large refracting telescope is on the way to the Cape.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Urbain J. J. Leverrier
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[28 October 1847]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.199
Summary:

Thanks for his visit to Collingwood. Regarding JH's great work. Would like to exhibit them to the King of France.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[29 October 1847]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.188 (C: RGO 6.192.372 inc)
Summary:

Regarding the forthcoming meeting. Concerning the telescope used at Pulkowa.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
William Empson
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
29 October [1847]
Source of text:
RS:HS 7.50
Summary:

Hopes no inconvenience will be caused by booking JH's paper for 10 Dec.; its length has been estimated as 50 pages. Will send him the text of Kosmos as it comes from the printers. Richard Jones has returned in triumph. Agrees with Alexander Baring (1st Baron Ashburton) on the currency.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Asa Gray
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[30 October 1847]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 10/5.135; Reel 9
Summary:

[Form letter] Acknowledges receipt of JH's Cape Results by library of American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Henry Ingersoll Bowditch
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[30 October 1847]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 10/5.136; Reel 9
Summary:

Gratitude from proprietors of Bowditch Library for receipt of JH's Cape Results and for JH's memory of their late father [Nathaniel Bowditch].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
John R. Hind
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[30 October 1847]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.341
Summary:

Sends his first approximation of the elements of the asteroid Flora.

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

Describes the funeral of James MacCullagh; mystified why he committed suicide.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Royal Academy of Science (Berlin)
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[31 October 1847]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 10/5.108; Reel 9
Summary:

A note of thanks for the gift of a copy of JH's Cape Results.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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