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Herschel5209

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Charles Babbage
Date:
1821-4
Source of text:
RS:HS 2.157 & 20.115
Summary:

Would CB breakfast with JH in order to meet members of the Correction Committee.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7798

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Gerard Moll
Date:
1821-4
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.10e
Summary:

Elected to membership in Astronomical Society. Thanks for GM's paper on eclipse.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7799

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Heinrich Christian Schumacher
Date:
1821-4
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.10f & 19.11
Summary:

HS was elected associate of Astronomical Society. This year's prize relates to theory of Saturn's satellites. Does HS plan to continue his table of apparent places of fixed stars?

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

LINNEAN1988

From:
Joseph Brandreth
To:
Sir James Edward Smith
Date:
2 Apr 1821
Source of text:
GB-110/JES/COR/21/28, The Linnean Society of London
Summary:

Acknowledges that Miss Smith [Smith's niece] "wholly responsible" for "unhandsome conduct" used towards them; apologises to Smith for letter he sent [disagreement over finding her a situation as a governess].

Contributor:
The Linnean Society of London

LINNEAN1101

From:
Sir Thomas Frankland
To:
Unknown
Date:
2 Apr 1821
Source of text:
GB-110/JES/COR/15/64, The Linnean Society of London
Summary:

Collates inconclusive evidence from his nephew, Edward Frankland, when in Dublin, and Duke of Gordon, as to indicators of sex of woodcocks. Two feathers sent by Edward Frankland inclosed [extant].

Two woodcock feathers.

Contributor:
The Linnean Society of London

LINNEAN3457

From:
Sir James Edward Smith
To:
John Bowyer Nichols
Date:
3 Apr 1821
Source of text:
GB-110/JES/JN/14, The Linnean Society of London
Summary:

Has finished his index as far as possible. Impatient for further parcel of autograph specimens. Correction for errata of second volume of ["A selection of the correspondence of Linnaeus" (1821)]. Hopes a finished, printed copy can be sent to the Linnean Society for either 17 April or 1 May.

Contributor:
The Linnean Society of London

SOMERVILLE571

From:
William Parry
To:
?
Date:
3 Apr 1821
Source of text:
MSP 1 / 23?, Dep. c. 371, Bod, MS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse

Herschel10817

From:
Charles Hatchett
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[5 April 1821]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.169
Summary:

Invitation to dinner.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

LINNEAN2315

From:
Samuel Marsh
To:
Unknown
Date:
7 Apr 1821
Source of text:
GB-110/JES/COR/24/34, The Linnean Society of London
Summary:

Receipt for a paper and a box carried between Norwich and London, or vice versa, by Samuel C Marsh, signed by J Elmer [presumably connected to printing and proofs of "A selection of the correspondence of Linnaeus" (1821)].

Contributor:
The Linnean Society of London

LINNEAN2859

From:
Jacques Étienne Gay
To:
Sir James Edward Smith
Date:
8 Apr 1821
Source of text:
GB-110/JES/COR/5/5, The Linnean Society of London
Summary:

The genus 'Crocus'.

Contributor:
The Linnean Society of London

Herschel12360

From:
William Edward Parry
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[9 April 1821]
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.217
Summary:

Can he meet JH at the Astronomical [Society] on the 13th?

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

LINNEAN2119

From:
Thomas Furly Forster
To:
Sir James Edward Smith
Date:
10 Apr 1821
Source of text:
GB-110/JES/COR/22/43, The Linnean Society of London
Summary:

Expects Smith on 30 April. Suffering from insomnia, which he treats with laudanum, and is never well. Approves of [Thomas] Hare's dedication to Smith ["Considerations on the Structure, Functions, and Disorders of the Stomach and Alimentary Organs of the Human Body..." (1821)]; his opinion of Hare. Though he has not seen Correa for a while does not believe he has left.

Contributor:
The Linnean Society of London

LINNEAN3458

From:
Sir James Edward Smith
To:
John Bowyer Nichols
Date:
11 Apr 1821
Source of text:
GB-110/JES/JN/15, The Linnean Society of London
Summary:

Approves autographs [for "A selection of the correspondence of Linnaeus" (1821)]. Requests further proofs so he can finish his index, and fair copies of various sections.

Contributor:
The Linnean Society of London

Herschel6296

From:
Baron George Best
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[16 April 1821]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.57
Summary:

Sends latest news of J. E. Bode.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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L599

From:
André-Marie Ampère
To:
Claude-Julien Bredin
Date:
17 avril 1821
Source of text:
Correspondance du Grand Ampère (Paris: 1936), p. 569.
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
La Correspondance d’André-Marie Ampère

Herschel2876

From:
Heinrich Christian Schumacher
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[17 April 1821]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.367
Summary:

Thanks for honor conferred by Astronomical Society. Mentions [F. W.] Bessel's paper on the 4th satellite of Saturn. Calculated tables of apparent places of 45 stars, which HS plans to publish annually.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel5918

From:
Francis Baily
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[19 April 1821]
Source of text:
RS:HS 3.41
Summary:

Is sorry JH could not manage the Council meeting last Monday. Suggests a date for the next meeting.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

LINNEAN754

From:
Samuel Goodenough
To:
Sir James Edward Smith
Date:
19 Apr 1821
Source of text:
GB-110/JES/COR/12/68, The Linnean Society of London
Summary:

Hopes the mistletoe berries he forwarded for Smith will succeed. Sorry to hear of Smith's troubles with his "near connections". Linnean Society disappointed by Smith's absence on 16 April. Has taken the chair at the Society a few times after [Alexander] Macleay's report of "poor [Aylmer Bourke] Lambert having forgot himself one night most strangely". Reports an accident at Westminster School, of which his son Edmund is the headmaster, involving a pupil and a glazier who "saw too much". Edmund to marry Miss Fanny Cockerell, youngest daughter of [Samuel Pepys] Cockerell [(1753-1827)] the architect and niece of Sir Charles Cockerell [1st baronet (1755-1837), banker].

Contributor:
The Linnean Society of London

Herschel7800

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Joseph Nicolas Nicollet
Date:
[19] April 1821
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.10g
Summary:

Thanks for JN's 'Comets Elemts' and book on libration of moon. Please send JN's and J. L. Pons's first observations of comet. Invites JN to become associate of Astronomical Society.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6327

From:
Alexis Bouvard
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[20 April 1821]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.89
Summary:

Thanks for the letter informing him that he was elected corresponding member of the Astronomical Society. Comments on the prize questions. Gives details of his astronomical publications.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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