Search: 1820-1829::1821::04::19 in date 
Sorted by:

Showing 1–3 of 3 items

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
Author
Addressee
Correspondent
Date
Document type
Repository
Contributor
Transcription available