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From:
André-Marie Ampère
To:
Félix Savary
Date:
2 décembre 1821
Source of text:
Correspondance du Grand Ampère (Paris: 1936), p. 575-576.
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
La Correspondance d’André-Marie Ampère
From:
George Peacock
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[2 December 1821]
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.280
Summary:

About the university politics of filling vacant posts.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Charles Babbage
Date:
[2 December 1821]
Source of text:
RS:HS 2.168 & 20.130
Summary:

Regarding their chances of obtaining a professorship at Cambridge.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Thomas Catton
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[2 December 1821]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.223
Summary:

The Plumian professorship is vacant. News of who is likely to be appointed. Congratulations on the award of the Copley medal.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
Text Online
From:
André-Marie Ampère
To:
Claude-Julien Bredin
Date:
3 décembre 1821
Source of text:
Correspondance du Grand Ampère (Paris: 1936), p. 576-577.
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
La Correspondance d’André-Marie Ampère
From:
Johann Elert Bode
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[11 December 1821]
Source of text:
RS:HS 4.167
Summary:

Acknowledges JH's receipt of Astronomical Yearbook, also payment for same. Thanks for information of Southern comets.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Joseph Johann Littrow
Date:
[11 December 1821]
Source of text:
RS:HS 19.8
Summary:

JL was elected associate of Astronomical Society. Received JL's books and papers. Will send Society's Transactions. John Pond gave permission to test Robert Molyneux's clock at Royal Observatory. Questions F. G. W. Struve's transit determinations of double stars. Pond discovered errors in Greenwich transit instrument and places little dependence on its observations since late 1819. Sends John Brinkley's analysis [of April 1821 comet observed by Basil Hall in southern hemisphere]. Asks about Halley's Comet and parallax. Wants information on object glasses of 6-inch diameter or greater. Requests copy of JL's annual published observations.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
Text Online
From:
Jean Nicolas Pierre Hachette
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
12 December 1821
Source of text:
IEE MS SC 2
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
William Roscoe
To:
Sir James Edward Smith
Date:
13 Dec 1821
Source of text:
GB-110/JES/COR/17/130, The Linnean Society of London
Summary:

Delaying his visit to Smith in Norwich depending on whether [Dawson] Turner comes to visit him at Holkham [home of Thomas William Coke]. Lord and Lady Nugent [George Nugent-Grenville, 2nd Baron Nugent (1788-1850)] and Lord and Lady William Bentinck [Lord William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck (1774–1839), army officer and diplomatist] are leaving, and death of Mrs Anson, mother of late Lord Anson, will curtail further invitations for time being. May have his catalogue of the Holkham manuscripts finished before he leaves. His happiness at time he spent at Holkham with Smith and Lady Smith.

Contributor:
The Linnean Society of London
From:
Samuel Goodenough
To:
Sir James Edward Smith
Date:
17 Dec 1821
Source of text:
GB-110/JES/COR/12/70, The Linnean Society of London
Summary:

Sends his son's thanks for Smith's opinion on his daughter's bad back, she is being treated by Sir Henry Halford [1st baronet (1766-1844), physician] and [Thomas] Copeland [(1781-1855), surgeon]. A proposal to unite the two Linnean dining clubs is being debated after a suggested first condition the rules of the club held at the British Coffee House take precedence was rejected. Relates observations made by his son, Robert, that keeping freshly caught trout with worms causes it to putrefy, and subsequent observations made by a gentleman applying trout to the stomachs of children with and without worms, recording the same results. Has sent Smith a barrel of oysters.

Contributor:
The Linnean Society of London
From:
Sir Thomas Frankland
To:
Sir James Edward Smith
Date:
18 Dec 1821
Source of text:
GB-110/JES/COR/15/66, The Linnean Society of London
Summary:

Read [Thomas] Rackett's "Linnean Transactions" paper on red viper ['Observations on a Viper found in Cranborne Chace, Dorsetshire' (1819)] and recalls a memorandum he gave Sir Joseph Banks 30 years ago on how as a boy, five miles from Newbury, [Berkshire], he saw "a small serpent with a red belly" the length of slow worm bite a greyhound, which survived but had an extremely swollen neck in morning. Considered it to be a sort of slow worm and suggested the name 'Coluber chersea', the memorandum will be in Banks' loose notices.

Contributor:
The Linnean Society of London
From:
Mary Pitt Herschel
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[19 December 1821]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0620.13; Reel 1086
Summary:

Tell Mr. Blagrave to decline Mr. Ramsbottom's offer to purchase Crown Inn at Slough from William Herschel and to proceed with repairs on house and offices. Problems finding another footman.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Babbage
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[20 December 1821]
Source of text:
RS:HS 2.169
Summary:

Would like to see him and discuss plans regarding his calculating machine.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir William Jackson Hooker
To:
Sir James Edward Smith
Date:
21 Dec 1821
Source of text:
GB-110/JES/COR/23/7, The Linnean Society of London
Summary:

Difficulties in communicating with Smith. Concerned to find that expressions of his in "Flora Scotia" have been misconstrued as attacks on Smith; will ensure offensive passages are expunged from second edition; apologises for and explains his wording of pages 132 and 279; praises Smith's botanical skills. Discusses differences in leaf shape of 'Salix purpurea', 'S. helix', and 'S. amygdalina'. Disagrees that economical merit should give place to scientific character in reference to 'S. caerulea', discusses authors on 'Salix' including Candolle and Sprengel.

Criticises [Samuel Frederick] Gray's "Natural Arrangements of British Plants", which seems "calculated to give the death blow to the study of natural orders, if not to botany altogether", remarks on plant names and attack on Linnaeus in preface, thinks [Richard] Salisbury has assisted with the natural orders. Refutes Salisbury's article on [Jonas] Dryander in October "Monthly Review".

Hopes Smith's work on "English Flora" in earnest; if Smith had declined it would have undertaking it himself. Return from his professorship not enough to support his family; supplementing by publishing books; proposes a "Species plantarum" in English, though concedes it would largely be a translation of Candolle, asks Smith's opinion. His intended "Exotic botany" work delayed by lack of able Scottish artists; difficulties with publisher. Thanks for duplicate specimens.

Contributor:
The Linnean Society of London
From:
Sir Robert Townsend Farquhar
To:
Sir James Edward Smith
Date:
24 Dec 1821
Source of text:
GB-110/JES/COR/22/2, The Linnean Society of London
Summary:

Sending dried specimens of local plants; intends to make a complete collection of the flora of Mauritius, Madagascar, and the surrounding archipelago, two botanists already engaged on it.

Contributor:
The Linnean Society of London
From:
James South
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[31 December 1821]
Source of text:
RS:HS 16.414
Summary:

Discusses a paper JS is preparing for the Astronomical Society. Mentions his recent observations. Suspects the report of a comet is a hoax.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Thomas Young
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[31 December 1821]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.320
Summary:

Board of Longitude will meet on 3 Jan. to examine instruments and proposals, and to consider Fearon Fallows's report from Cape of Good Hope.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project