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Herschel8372

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
[William Radcliffe Birt]
Date:
[1848-4?]
Source of text:
RS:HS 19.171
Summary:

Returned [WB's] manuscript with Admiralty notes last week. Concerned, because postal service lost C. R. Darwin's manuscript when JH returned it.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel5634

From:
William Radcliffe Birt
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1 April 1848]
Source of text:
RS:HS 4.124
Summary:

Has forwarded the manuscript, with notes, to the Admiralty and JH should receive it in a few days. Leaves the arrangement to him. Did he receive his letter of 15 Jan. and a copy of his Southampton report?

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4982

From:
D. François J. Arago
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[2 April 1848]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.365
Summary:

Has received the Cape of Good Hope observations. Regarding work on the Board of Longitude. Has received the portrait of William Herschel.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7579

From:
[Jacob Gijsbertus Samuel van] Breda
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[3 April 1848]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 10/5.96; Reel 9
Summary:

Acknowledges receipt of JH's Cape Results by Holland Society of Sciences.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8330

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
[William Radcliffe Birt]
Date:
[3 April 1848]
Source of text:
RS:HS 19.133
Summary:

Received [WB's] packet. JH has influenza, will read manuscript after recovery.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3130

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Rowan Hamilton
Date:
[3 April 1848]
Source of text:
TCD 1493:424
Summary:

Wonderingly admires WH's quaternions. Lady Herschel has not yet thanked Eliza Hamilton (WH's sister) for the poetry because of serious illness. Except for influenza, would wish WH's son to visit for Easter. Mentions 'political extravaganzas.'

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel2528

From:
Adam Sedgwick
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[4 April 1848]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.437
Summary:

Needs clarification of the relationship between the sun's rotation and the nebular hypothesis. Do the planets between Mars and Jupiter create problems for the hypothesis?

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4809

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[5 April 1848]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.198 (C: RGO 6.9.201)
Summary:

Concerning object-glasses.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4810

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[5 April 1848]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.199 (C: RGO 6.9.203)
Summary:

Concerning the new meridional instrument. Is JH coming to town soon?

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel2529

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Adam Sedgwick
Date:
[5 April 1848]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.438 (C: RS:HS 23.20)
Summary:

Family has been ill. Discusses possibilities for the formation of the sun and their effects on the law of area and the nebular hypothesis.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel391

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[5 April 1848]
Source of text:
RGO 6.9.204
Summary:

Willing to let GA choose the best objective lens [see GA's 1848-4-5]; then JH offers another possibility; all are ill at Collingwood.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6281

From:
Charles Davidson Bell
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[7 April 1848]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.42
Summary:

Has found the plan of Sussex very useful on his travels. Comments on Brighton. Has seen his aunt and uncle. Has had no chance of visiting Clapham and so unable to send his sketch.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10582

From:
Sir William J. Hooker
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[8 April 1848]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.460
Summary:

Has finished his paper for JH's Admiralty Manual and it only requires copying. Can reduce it if necessary.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1126

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Charles Wheatstone
Date:
[9 April 1848]
Source of text:
RS:HS 25.11.8
Summary:

Asks for CW's contribution to the Admiralty's scientific manual.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

SOMERVILLE297

From:
William Somerville
To:
John Herschel
Date:
10 Apr 1848
Source of text:
HS 16.409, RS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse

Herschel2716

From:
William Somerville
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[10 April 1848]
Source of text:
RS:HS 16.409
Summary:

Informs JH that before JH's [Cape] expedition, WS recommended it to [H. R. V. Fox,] Lord Holland, who recommended it to James Graham, then First Lord of the Admiralty. Sends JH a letter from Lord Holland to WS praising JH's efforts.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel2349

From:
Edward Sabine
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[12 April 1848]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.221
Summary:

Sends meteorological register contracts from [John] Lefroy. Discusses observations of aurora in North America. Discusses recent magnetic disturbances and similar disturbances in 1841 and 1847.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10774

From:
Robert Hunt
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[12 April 1848]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.127
Summary:

Encloses a copy of his own paper from the P.M. Has not found time to do the experiments suggested by JH, but hopes to shortly. Is revising some papers on the physical powers of the universe for re-publication.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7580

From:
Frederik Kaiser
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[13 April 1848]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 10/5.97; Reel 9
Summary:

Gratitude for receipt of JH's Cape Results. Offers to send FK's complete series of micrometrical observations of [Neptune].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel5483

From:
Francis Beaufort
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[14 April 1848]
Source of text:
RS:HS 3.384
Summary:

Encloses a letter from Thomas Maclear to show how enthusiastic he is for the great telescope.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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