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From:
John Frederick William Herschel
To:
John Pond
Date:
1 November 1821
Source of text:
MM/6/74, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
John Pond
Date:
[1 November 1821]
Source of text:
RS MM.6.74
Summary:

Discussion and criticism of paper by a [J. M. H.] Wronski on methods in theory of equilibrium of fluids.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Unidentified
Date:
[1821-11]
Source of text:
APS B.H435p.1
Summary:

A covering note written for an enclosed letter (not available), all of it seeming to relate to filling a Cambridge position, for which J. S. Henslow seems eminently qualified.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Charles Babbage
Date:
[5 November 1821]
Source of text:
RS:HS 2.166 & 20.127
Summary:

Would like to visit this week. Has had an attack of rheumatic fever. Gives tables of orbit of a comet.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel
Date:
[17 November 1821]
Source of text:
RS:HS 20.128
Summary:

Sixteen-month delay in receipt of FB's observations. Willing to publish James Bradley's observations of Halley's Comet but questions accuracy of Nathaniel Bliss's. Sends John Brinkley's analysis [of April 1821 comet observed by Basil Hall in southern hemisphere]. Please describe Georg Reichenbach's new [transit] circle at Königsburg.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel
Date:
[20 November 1821]
Source of text:
AdWDDR Bessel 225 (C: RS:HS 20.128)
Summary:

Responds to FB's much delayed answer to JH's 1820-5-9; comments on some observational matters.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Charles Babbage
Date:
[25 November 1821]
Source of text:
RS:HS 2.167 & 20.129
Summary:

Regarding barometric observations.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project